... disease and this is what I am told caused it. Nobody believes Me and Im trying to find some proof to show them Im not crazy. Help Me Thanks
Vicks VapoRub - Have any of you heard of Vicks Vapor Rub causing Pulmonary Fibrosis. I have this?
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- 3 Apr 2013 by shelakay42
- Updated
- 4 April 2013
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- vaporub, pulmonary fibrosis, vicks, vicks vaporub, disease, vicks vapor rub
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kaismama
3 Apr 2013
DzooBaby
3 Apr 2013
My grandmother used to use Vicks inside her nostrils too and she died with COPD. I dont think the Vicks was the full causative factor but maybe it did have an effect. She had asthma from the time she was in her 30's and she used Vicks inside her nostrils to help her breathe. Pulmonary Fibrosis is scarring in the lungs. There are many reasons that can cause this but much of the time it is idiopathic, meaning they dont really know what causes it.
smileyhappy
3 Apr 2013
kaismama
3 Apr 2013
It will be interesting to see if more people chime in with someone who had it and used vicks that way.
DzooBaby
3 Apr 2013
I dont think it hurts you to use it on your chest, it is the putting it in the nostrils and breathing in small droplets of it in your lungs that is dangerous. It says on the jar not to use it up inside the nostrils but people do it anyway.
kathyhanson
4 Apr 2013
Hi shelakay, This is interesting. My dad used Vicks for everything and died from COPD and lung cancer. Curious though, do you remember using the Vicks in a vaporizer at night to help you breathe when you had a cold? I wonder if that solution could have been a problem and we didn't know it. My mom used to buy a bottle of liquid Vicks made just for the vaporizer. I don't have any breathing problems, thank goodness, but my dad had the vaporizer going every night. Just saying...
Kathy
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I have used it my entire life for coughs and colds and migraine headaches. unfortunately I put it inside my nostrils which you are not supposed to do I no longer use it but I have had Pulmonary fibrosis for three years now and on oxygen 24/7/365. and I'm only 42 yrs old
Here you go www.occupationalasthma.com/occupational_asthma_viewreference.aspx?id=4328
This could answer something for me too. My dad died of copd, and he put vicks in his nose when he was congested for most of his life, but never smoked.