17 year old girl’s lung burst after vaping the equivalent of 57 cigarettes a day

A dad rushed his daughter to hospital when a hole lllburst in her lung after she vaped the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week.Mark Blythe broke down emotionally when he got a call saying his daughter Kyla, 17, had collapsed and turned blue during a sleepover at a friends house early on May 11.Kyla thought her habit was harmless until that morning when her lung collapsed because excessive vaping had burst a small air blister known as a pulmonary bleb on her lungs.After nearly going into cardiac arrest, Kyla underwent a five-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove a part of her lung.It took another two weeks before the student was allowed home.Mark said: It was terrifying for me. Ive cried like a baby. It was horrible to watch. Ive been with her the whole time.It was life-threatening. It really did threaten her life because she was so close to having a cardiac arrest on that Friday.They said she went blue. They thought shed gone.Kyla has been vaping since she turned 15 taking an entire 4,000-puff vapes each week, the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week, or 57 a day.Now she says her ordeal has made her scared of the habit. Kyla said: When I was 15 it started becoming a popular thing. All my friends were doing it. I just thought it would be harmless and that I would be fine.Everyday I would use the 4,000-puff ones and I would go through them in about a week.I honestly thought they were harmless and wouldnt do anything to anyone, even though I had seen so many things about it. I just feel like everyone has that same view.But now I wont touch them. I wouldnt go near them. The situation has really scared me out of them.I was terrified. We went in there thinking we were only going to be in there for a few hours but ended up being there for two weeks having surgeries and all this.Alarmed by his daughters close call with death, Mark is keen to warn other young people to throw away vapes because its not worth it.The dad-of-nine said: Ive been to hell and back with Kyla over the last couple of weeks.I just put it down to vaping, they cant put it down to anything else but vaping thats caused this.She was at a friends house and I got a phone call at 4am that she had collapsed and gone blue. I went round for her. We took her down to the hospital.Her lung collapsed this time due to the hole. They put a drain in her. Shes a little girl who doesnt like needles. She screamed. She was close to having a cardiac arrest.They rushed us into Newcastle and she had the operation on Tuesday. It was a five-and-a-half-hour operation. Shed had a seizure on the operating table.I was talking to the surgeon and he was saying about these blebs that can form on the lungs.They think it is the throw away vapes that burst these blebs and puncture a hole in your lungs.Apparently its a big thing now. Hes done a lot of operations like this. The post 17 year old girl’s lung burst after vaping the equivalent of 57 cigarettes a day.