Katie Price 'getting lungs checked' after doctor issues worrying vaping warning

Katie Price has fixed a penetration into her existent wellness arsenic she claimed that she is acceptable to person her lungs checked amid her mum's beingness changing caller wellness battle

Katie Price has revealed that she is owed to acquisition a wellness cheque aft her mum precocious had to person a lung transplant.

Speaking connected the Rob Moore podcast, the world TV prima revealed however her mum's wellness problems person prompted her to marque definite that her ain wellness is successful check. Katie said: "I'm getting my lungs checked adjacent month, wherever my mum went. Not due to the fact that I deliberation there's thing incorrect with my lungs, but due to the fact that of what mum had, (it's) conscionable to check."

Earlier successful the podcast, the erstwhile I'm A Celeb prima shared however she has precocious taken up smoking vapes aft 1 happening had initially attracted her to them past year: "My mum's had her lung transplant and she's ne'er smoked. I've ne'er smoked, I'm not a smoker, (but) a twelvemonth agone smelling each these (vapes) what radical bash and I got the sensation (for them)".

Katie said she has already been warned of the dangers of vaping by a aesculapian nonrecreational arsenic she shared their conversation: "When helium was connected the telephone to me, due to the fact that they person to bash a Zoom (call) earlier they spot you, helium said if anyone was going to commencement anything, smoking oregon vaping, adjacent though helium advises none, helium said fume not vape, helium said these (vapes) are truthful atrocious for you."

Katie's mum Amy was archetypal diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) successful 2017, which radical are expected to unrecorded with for 2 to 5 years aft diagnosis.

While determination are treatments for Amy's condition, specified arsenic oxygen enactment and medicinal options, successful immoderate cases specified arsenic hers, it whitethorn beryllium advised that a lung transplant is the champion people of action.

According to the NHS, IPF is simply a information successful which those suffering from the unwellness volition acquisition scarring connected the lungs and trouble breathing.

While it's inactive not wholly known wherefore idiosyncratic develops the condition, it is believed that it is much prevalent successful those aged betwixt 70 and 75, portion it is uncommon successful the nether 50s.

Having initially made her sanction aft her enactment arsenic a glamour model, Katie became a household sanction aft appearing connected I'm A Celebrity successful 2004, wherever she would spell connected to conscionable her ex-husband Peter Andre. Since then, she has made respective appearances successful immoderate of the biggest TV shows including Loose Women, wherever she appeared arsenic a regular panellist betwixt 2015 and 2018, arsenic good arsenic winning Celebrity Big Brother successful 2015.