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Buzz Burrell: General Practitioners Aotearoa Chair on the study showing vaping could be a factor in Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New study from the University of Otago vaping around newborn's
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  Speaker 1: potential higher risk of COT death. Baby dies in their sleep, unexplained.
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  Speaker 1: That's basically what COT death is. Maternal vaping was reported
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  Speaker 1: in half of the cases that involved direct bed sharing.
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  Speaker 1: Dr Buzz Burrell General practitioners outed, oh, chieved with me
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Dodor Buzz, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Ryan, good morning, Good to talk to you again.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on. So tell me what is
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  Speaker 1: what is the link here between vaping and sudden from
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  Speaker 1: death syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's it's sending I think, well, we could
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  Speaker 2: say a very concerning signal. There isn't a direct cause.
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  Speaker 2: My skim reading of the paper is that it's had
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  Speaker 2: a look at just over one hundreds of suddenly and
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  Speaker 2: death and the theme very strongly emerged. Bed sharing was
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  Speaker 2: still a common theme which came out, but bed sharing
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  Speaker 2: with smoking and or vaping. Eighty five percent of the
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  Speaker 2: COT best had those in common. So it's it's certainly emerging.
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  Speaker 2: I think is the correct way to work as a
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  Speaker 2: as a risk factor for sudden infant death and gosh,
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  Speaker 2: what absolutely horrible and lifelong condition. I really appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: interest in this it's it's it's it's just it's just
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  Speaker 2: so sad and tragic, and anything we can do to
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  Speaker 2: reduce the risk, we've just got to actively go for it.
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  Speaker 2: I think what big message is and that this is
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  Speaker 2: emerging as well, vaping is not harmless. And I think
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  Speaker 2: all credits to the markets, they seem to have tried
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  Speaker 2: to get that message of craft that vaping is safe.
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  Speaker 1: What's the what's actually happening here? Is the vape somehow
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  Speaker 1: like the vape juice or is it that the mother
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  Speaker 1: is smothering? How do the babies die?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. It's it's probably almost certainly the same
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  Speaker 2: mechanism that smoking during pregnancy is getting into the baby.
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  Speaker 2: So it will be a combination of the contents of
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  Speaker 2: the cigarette and or the con tense of debate, and
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  Speaker 2: bearing in mind that at a baby you've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff in the bay. You not only got
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  Speaker 2: the inhaled nicotine which which is doing strange things to
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  Speaker 2: the to the lining of the blood vessels of the baby,
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  Speaker 2: the present around the mother and that people consential unit.
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  Speaker 2: But but there's there's other things that there's a there's
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  Speaker 2: there's bland making this up now. But everything I think
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  Speaker 2: we've got glycol, We've we've got a burnt products of
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  Speaker 2: old aldehydes, that's burnt bits of metal. Every time somebody
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  Speaker 2: is inhaving a bay product, they're inhaving all of that
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  Speaker 2: and nicotine. And there's something about hating nicotine and putting
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  Speaker 2: into the lungs is unique. If you put it in
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  Speaker 2: the patch, if you swallow it by means of a gum,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to have the same lung effects as
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  Speaker 2: if you're inhaling it. So it's there's something just unique
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good stuff dot well, not good stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: should say, doctor Buz on last Vy on the program
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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