Vape pen explodes on 17-year-old

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Austin Adams, 17, was trying to quit smoking. So he turned to Ecig Wholesale in an attempt to ease his addiction to tobacco.

He found the one he wanted — a device from a company called VGOD — and asked his mother, Kailani Burton, to buy it for him. She did. Adams had been using the new device when it exploded in his mouth. The force knocked out several teeth and shattered his jaw.

"Austin came in with his hand up to his mouth," Burton, 45, told NBC News. He was in shock and unable to speak.Burton, who lives in rural Ely, Nevada with her family, had to drive her son five hours to the nearest hospital that could handle his injury: Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City.

"This child had a blast injury to his lower jaw, as well as burns around his lip," said Dr. Katie Russell, one of the trauma surgeons who treated Adams.

Russell and a colleague described the case Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Just last week, the FDA finalized guidance for manufacturers who are submitting new applications for tobacco products, which includes e-cigarettes. The agency now recommends that companies provide detailed information about the kinds of batteries they use, as well as plans for addressing the likelihood of overheating, fire and explosion.E-cigarette explosions occur when the lithium-ion battery inside a vape pen overheats, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is in charge of regulating all tobacco products — including e-cigarettes.

But while the agency has sent warning letters to e-cigarette manufacturers about marketing violations and illegal sales to minors, they haven't issued any warning letters about the potential for the batteries to overheat and explode.

Instead, the FDA suggests that companies should rework their batteries to make them less likely to overheat.

"The FDA encourages manufacturers interested in making modifications to address battery safety issues to contact the agency to discuss options on how they can do so in a timely fashion and the FDA will consider each situation on a case-by-case basis," an FDA spokesman wrote in an email to NBC News.

The explosion which injured Adams was "totally unexpected," Russell told NBC News. "He didn’t recall doing anything wrong with the device beforehand, and it just exploded."
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