A teenager was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung after vaping the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week. His father, terrified, was distraught.

A “terrified” father is warning parents about the deadly dangers of vaping after his teenage daughter suffered a hole in her lung – while smoking the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week.

Mark Blight rushed Kyla Blight to the hospital early on May 11 after receiving a phone call saying she had collapsed and turned “blue” while sleeping at a friend's house.

After her heart almost stopped beating, the 17-year-old underwent a five-and-a-half hour surgery to remove part of her lung.

A small blister of air known as a lung bubble developed at the top of Kyla's lungs and it is believed her excessive vaping caused it to burst and her lungs to collapse.

The student, who started vaping at just 15, thought the habit was “harmless” and that he could vape 4,000 puffs a week, which equates to the nicotine equivalent of 400 cigarettes.

After her operation, Kyla had to spend another two weeks in hospital before she could go home.

She now says the ordeal scared her and left her afraid for the rest of her life.

Full-time carer Mark took to Facebook to publicize his daughter's life-threatening experience, urging young people to throw away their vapes because “it's not worth it”.

Father-of-nine Mark, who lives in Egremont, Cumbria, said: “I have been to hell and back with Kyla over the last two weeks. I just blamed this on vaping, they can't attribute it to anything other than vaping causing this.

“She was at a friend's house and I got a phone call at 4am saying she had collapsed and turned blue. I went to pick her up. We took her to hospital.

“His lung collapsed this time because of the hole. They put a drain on him. She's a little girl who doesn't like needles. She screamed. She was on the verge of cardiac arrest.

“They rushed us to Newcastle and she had surgery on Tuesday. It was a five and a half hour operation. She had a seizure on the operating table.

“I was talking to the surgeon and he was talking about these bubbles that can form on the lungs. They think it's disposable vapes that burst those bubbles and put a hole in your lungs.

“Apparently it's a big deal now.” He did a lot of operations like this.

“It was terrifying for me. I cried like a baby. It was horrible to watch. I was with her the whole time.

“It really threatened her life because she was so close to cardiac arrest that Friday. They said she turned blue. They thought she was gone.

Mark says the ordeal began in November 2023 when Kyla was rushed to hospital after it was believed she was having a heart attack, but an X-ray revealed she had a hole in her lung after the formation of a bubble.

The student was taken to hospital again in February 2024, but was told she was cured, until May 11, when she was hospitalized for two weeks after the bubble burst and the collapse of his lung.

Mark revealed that although he caught his daughter using an e-cigarette, he didn't realize she started vaping when she was 15 and underestimated how much she did it.

The 61-year-old admitted he had been vaping for 13 years to help quit smoking. However, he is now urging young people to stop using disposable vapes after seeing the dangers themselves.

Mark said: “People underestimate how dangerous they can be. I used them to quit smoking 13 years ago and it never bothered me at all. Even if you think it doesn't bother you, it might later, after what happened to Kyla. It scared me.

“For children, there should absolutely be a ban, especially disposable ones. The chemicals they contain have not been tested properly. Until the government does testing, people will do it.

“The doctor said he was seeing a lot more now than before. He said there were a lot of young people with holes in their lungs.

“I would tell parents that watching your child do this, you are going to experience what I experienced. It's just not worth it.

“Kids don't understand until it happens to them. That's why I wrote on my Facebook. I will have to make young children aware of this.

Kyla admitted she started using disposable vapes at the age of 15 after seeing her friends at school doing it and began using it every day, consuming 4,000 puffs per week after thinking it was “harmless”.

However, the student revealed the experience “terrified” her and opened her eyes to the dangers of using e-cigarettes which she “won't touch again”.

Kyla said: “When I was 15 it started to become a popular thing. All my friends did it. I just thought it would be harmless and everything would be fine.

“Every day I used all 4,000 puffs and went through them in about a week.

“Honestly, I thought they were harmless and wouldn't do anything to anyone, even though I had seen so much about it. I just feel like everyone has the same point of view.

“But now I won’t touch it. I wouldn't go near them. The situation really scared me.

'I was terrified. We went there thinking we would only be there for a few hours, but we ended up staying there for two weeks having surgeries and stuff.