A 17-year-old girl in the UK was rushed to the hospital after a hole burst in her lung, a direct result of excessive vaping, according to Metro. Kyla Blythe collapsed and turned blue during a sleepover at a friend’s house on May 11th.
The incident occurred because Blythe’s excessive vaping caused a small air blister, known as a pulmonary bleb, to burst on her lungs, leading to a collapsed lung. She subsequently underwent a five-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove part of her lung.
“It was terrifying for me,” said Mark Blythe, Kyla’s father. “I’ve cried like a baby. It was horrible to watch. I’ve been with her the whole time. It was life-threatening. It did threaten her life because she was so close to having a cardiac arrest on that Friday. They said she went blue. They thought she’d gone.”
Blythe started vaping at the age of 15 after witnessing her peers do it. Believing it to be harmless, she had been inhaling an entire 4,000-puff vape each week. This experience, however, has left her terrified of the potential consequences of vaping.
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