A 17-year-old girl in the United Kingdom, Kyla Blythe, was rushed to hospital after a hole ruptured in her lung following excessive vaping that amounted to smoking 400 cigarettes a week. The incident occurred on May 11 when Kyla collapsed and turned “blue” during a sleepover at a friend’s house.
The collapse was caused by a pulmonary blister, a small air blister in his lung that burst due to excessive vaping. Kyla underwent surgery that lasted five and a half hours to remove part of her lung. Her father, Mark Blythe, described the ordeal as terrifying. “I cried like a baby. It was horrible to see. I’ve been with her all the time. She was a threat to life. She was so close to going into cardiac arrest. They said she turned blue. They thought she was gone,” he reported. Meter.
Kyla started vaping at age 15, influenced by her peers and believing it was harmless. She had been consuming a full vape of 4,000 puffs each week. This recent health problem has left her deeply scared.
“When I was 15, it started to become popular. All my friends were doing it. I just thought it would be harmless and okay. Every day he used the 4000 puffs and finished them in about a week. I honestly thought they were harmless and wouldn’t do anything to anyone, even though I had seen so many things about them.
I feel like everyone has the same opinion. But now I won’t touch them. I wouldn’t go near them. The situation has scared me a lot. I was terrified. We went in there thinking we were only going to be there a few hours, but we ended up there two weeks with surgeries and everything,” he said.
His father has also issued a warning to other young people, urging them to “throw away the vaporizers because it’s not worth it.” According Action on smoking and health (ASH), the popularity of vapers among children is increasing rapidly, with the number of children who have tried vaping almost doubling to reach 20% by 2023.
Alarmingly, children as young as five are also becoming addicted to vaping, leading to serious health problems such as collapsed lungs. In addition to lung damage, vaping can stunt brain growth in teens due to toxic chemicals like lead and uranium found in vaping products.