According to Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, Director of the Poison Control Center (Bach Mai Hospital), the female patient had a history of smoking electronic cigarettes 6 months ago.
About 4 days before being admitted to the hospital, the patient always felt like someone was watching and talking in his head. At the time of admission, the patient was trembling, sweating, had an irregular heartbeat, and had mental disorders...
The patient brought 2 electronic cigarette products, one sample contained 2 synthetic drugs (including: ADB - Butinaca, MDMB - Butinaca), the other sample contained 3 substances (including: ADB- 4 en - Pinaca, MDMB - 4 en - Pinaca, EDMB- 4 en- Pinaca); of which 2 substances are new types recorded for the first time at the Poison Control Center (Bach Mai Hospital).
Another case being treated at the Poison Control Center is male patient TVH (22 years old, in Thai Binh ). This male patient was hospitalized in a state of cyanosis, convulsions, delirium, paranoia, insomnia, hallucinations, complete anuria, multiple organ damage and risk of cardiac arrest.
The patient's family said that H works in Ho Chi Minh City. Recently, H bought and used an electronic cigarette called Ampire Chill for more than 600,000 VND; there were times when he smoked 3-4 tubes a day. For 10 consecutive days, H could not sleep and had paranoid thoughts about being incited by others, even threatening to kill his father and younger brother.
Test results detected 4 synthetic drugs in the e-cigarette essential oil sample used by patient H, including: MDMB - 4 en - Pinaca, MDMB - Chminaca, ADB- 4 en - Pinaca and ADB - Binaca.
This is also the first time the Poison Control Center has received a sample of an electronic cigarette product from a patient mixed with up to 4 drugs, while normally just 1 substance is enough to endanger the life and cause brain damage to the user.
Currently, after 4 days of treatment, although the critical stage has passed, H is still in a coma, on a ventilator, and has very severe brain damage.
From the above cases, Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen warned that the common point of new generation drug poisoning cases is that the condition is very severe with symptoms of convulsions, excitement, restlessness, hallucinations, uncontrolled behavior, damage to the brain and many other organs.
Notably, previous drug testing samples in e-cigarettes often only detected 1 substance, not a mixture of 3-4 substances like recently. When e-cigarettes are mixed with strange substances, stimulants, and drugs, the consequences cannot be predicted and can lead to heartbreaking consequences, while the users are mostly young people, students, etc.
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