A teenage girl in Britain was hospitalised in May due to a collapsed lung, reportedly after she vaped the equivalent of 400 cigarettes in a week, or an average of 57 a day. Kyla Blight, 17, was at a friend's house for a sleepover when she collapsed and turned 'blue' early on May 11, Metro reported. Kyla burst a small...
The girl underwent surgery for 5½ hours to remove part of her lung after nearly going into cardiac arrest.A teenage girl in Britain was hospitalised in May due to a collapsed lung, reportedly after she vaped the equivalent of 400 cigarettes in a week, or an average of 57 a day.
Kyla burst a small air blister, known as a pulmonary bleb, on her lungs. When a bleb bursts, the air escapes into the chest cavity, causing a pneumothorax. This, in turn, can result in a collapsed lung. Kyla started vaping when she was 15 after seeing schoolmates pick it up, Metro said. She had been going through 4,000 puff vapes — the equivalent of 400 cigarettes — a week, the report claimed.
After his daughter's ordeal, Blight urged youngsters to stop using vapes saying, "it's not worth it".
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