美國食品藥品監管局表示:電子煙或導致癲癇

The Food and Drug Administration just issued a special announcement about a new health risk that they worry may be linked to e-cigarettes: seizures.
美國食品藥品監管局剛剛發佈一則特殊聲明：他們擔心電子煙或導致新的健康風險--癲癇。

Since June 2018, the agency received what it called "a recent uptick" in reports where users describe having seizures that may be connected with their e-cigarette use. The FDA collects information about vape safety risks through their Safety Reporting Portal, where people who use e-cigarettes can share their experiences. Between reports via that portal and from poison control centers, the FDA counted 35 reports of seizures between 2010 and early 2019 that may be related to vaping. Most of those, it said, involved "youth or young adult users."
自2018年6月以來，該機構收到了其所謂的"近期上升"報告。報告指出，電子煙用戶稱他們癲癇發作或與抽電子煙相關。美國食品藥品監管局通過其安全報告通道收集了關於電子煙安全風險的信息，電子煙用戶會通過安全報告通道分享個人經歷。透過來自安全報告通道的報告及中毒控制中心的報告，美國食品藥品監管局發現，自2010年至2019年初，共計35份癲癇報告與電子煙相關。其中，大多數報告表示，涉及了"青少年或年輕成人用戶。"

We know that nicotine poisoning can cause seizures, like when people swallow vape juice. But the FDA doesn't know yet what the relationship between seizures and vaping is here, says FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in a statement today. Some of these seizures might be unconnected, or some might be caused by inhaling massive amounts nicotine. That seems less plausible, says Peter Chai, a medical toxicologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "I think exposure (skin contact or oral) in children, or vaping exposure in younger individuals (adolescents through which we've seen a large increase in e-cig use), might be accounting or the increase in these seizures," he says in an email to The Verge.
我們知道，尼古丁中毒會導致癲癇，就像喝煙油一樣。但美國食品藥品監管局並不清楚癲癇與電子煙之間的關係，美國食品藥品監管局局長斯科特·戈特利布在今日發佈的聲明中說道。有些癲癇發作與吸入大量尼古丁無關，而有些則正是因爲吸入大量尼古丁引起的。波士頓布萊根婦女醫院（Brigham and Women's Hospital）的醫學毒理學家彼得·柴說，這似乎是不合理的。"我認爲兒童接觸（皮膚或口腔接觸），或年輕人接觸電子煙（青少年--吸電子煙的青少年越來越多），可能是導致癲癇發作的原因，"他在發給The Verge雜誌的一封郵件中寫道。

"To get enough nicotine in your body to cause seizures by smoking cigarettes is well-nigh impossible," says medical toxicologist Edward W. Boyer, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. But similar cases of nicotine-related seizures have been linked to eating it. Boyer thinks it's plausible that e-cigarettes could deliver enough nicotine to do the same. The truth is, there's not much data to go on. And for now, the FDA's Gottlieb says, "We can't yet say for certain that e-cigarettes are causing these seizures."
"通過吸菸使體內有足夠的尼古丁引發癲癇幾乎是不可能的，"布萊根婦女醫院的緊急醫學副教授、醫學毒理學家愛德華·博耶爾說道。但與尼古丁相關的癲癇發作的類似病例與攝入尼古丁相關。博耶爾認爲電子煙無法帶來如此量大的尼古丁。事實是，可供繼續研究的數據並不多。就目前而言，美國食品藥品監管局局長戈特利布說道，"我們尚不能確定，電子煙會導致癲癇發作。"