Sesame and flax seed oil treatments lead to lipoid pneumonia: case

The 30-year-old’s non-resolving pneumonia was linked to his frequent swishing with flax seed oil and use of a sesame oil nasal decongestant, Canadian doctors say

Regularly swishing of flax seed oil and using a sesame oil based nasal decongestant eventually landed a young man with exogenous lipoid pneumonia, a rare cause of non-resolving pneumonia, Canadian doctors report.

The 30-year-old presented to the ED at the University Health Network in Toronto with left-sided chest pain.