Teenager who started vaping at 12 told the worst when he started coughing up blood

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Jayden Richardson says helium took up e-cigarettes aged 12 and would fume the equivalent of astir 50 a time - but past helium fell earnestly ill

A 'traumatised' teen was told helium was coughing up 'pints' of humor owed to a tummy ulcer aft excessively galore kebabs - lone to observe it was lung harm from 'excessive vaping'.

Jayden Richardson says helium took up e-cigarettes aged 12 to 'fit in' and would fume the equivalent of astir 50 cigarettes a day. However the 17-year-old was 'terrified' erstwhile helium began coughing up humor connected the past time of his household vacation successful Turkey successful August 2024.

After flying location the adjacent day, helium was rushed to infirmary wherever his mum Elita Richardson says doctors assumed helium had a tummy ulcer. Mum Elita admits she thought it could beryllium linked to the drinks, greasy nutrient and having a kebab 'every night' he'd had connected holiday.

However, the household were 'shocked' erstwhile an endoscopy revealed the teen had 'severe' lung harm that doctors accidental was caused by his vaping addiction. Despite being determined to springiness up e-cigarettes, helium 'stupidly' utilized a vape months aboriginal portion celebrating his day connected January 10 and began coughing up humor again.

This was conscionable days earlier Hollyoaks prima Paul Danan tragically passed away - months aft being hospitalised for 'excessive vaping'. Taking to Facebook, Elita, 43, shared a station informing others to 'please see vaping due to the fact that you ne'er deliberation it's going to hap to you'.

Jayden is present awaiting a CT scan and welcomes the prohibition of disposable vapes successful June 2025 vowing to 'never' usage 1 again. Jayden, who lives successful Shifnal, Shropshire, said: "I was terrified. I ne'er thought vaping could origin each this.

"It started disconnected successful Turkey. The nighttime earlier I had a spot of thorax symptom but didn't truly deliberation overmuch of it whatsoever. I woke up the adjacent morning, had a speedy spell connected my vape and conscionable arsenic if I had a spot of a chesty cough.

"I went to cough a fewer times and it felt a spot phlegmy truthful I went to spit it out. I saw that it was humor and this enactment maine successful shock. I didn't cognize what to bash myself.

"I got clasp of my mum and she said 'if it gets immoderate worse I'll travel consecutive to you' due to the fact that she was retired astatine breakfast. About 5 minutes goes by and I'm inactive coughing up small bits astatine the start. She comes implicit and the archetypal clip I was coughing it wasn't truly atrocious astatine all.

"But a mates hours aboriginal I had a fewer drinks and worldly and I got into the swimming excavation and arsenic soon arsenic I got into the swimming excavation I'm conscionable coughing up loads of humor into my hands. So I was pulled up retired of the swimming excavation by my mum's friend.

"Gone consecutive to the toilet and I'm coughing up pint-loads of blood. It frightened maine to see, particularly astatine a young age. It was traumatic. That was astir apt going connected for a bully 10 minutes of maine coughing up beauteous dense blood."

Jayden managed to alert location the adjacent time but his dada rushed him to infirmary aft helium started coughing up much humor astatine Birmingham Airport. His mum claims that doctors initially 'fobbed him off' arsenic having a tummy ulcer aft she told them helium was 'throwing up' humor and thing showed up connected a lung X-ray.

However, a week aboriginal an endoscopy revealed helium had terrible lung damage. Elita said: "When I yet got backmost he'd been successful and retired of infirmary fobbing him disconnected for a tummy ulcer.

"Because I was perceiving it arsenic helium was sicking it up but helium was coughing it up. He was heaving. I was reasoning 'I fto him person a mates of drinks connected holiday, he's been eating greasy food, helium was having a kebab each night'.

"They sent him for lung x-rays. Nothing was showing up connected the x-rays. They were past saying 'is it terrible chemoreceptor bleeds'? Because the humor was coming retired of his chemoreceptor arsenic well. He'd ne'er had a chemoreceptor bleed.

"I deliberation they were going done the options of everything not reasoning that a kid of his property would person terrible lung damage. A week aboriginal that's erstwhile helium had the camera down. The advisor said he's ne'er seen truthful overmuch lung harm connected a kid. It's awful. 'Excessive vaping', that's what they said. It was a shock.

"It's awful. I'm grateful we realised erstwhile we did. I was fearful if it had gone connected immoderate longer it could've been worse. What makes it worse is erstwhile it happened again, the bloke from Hollyoaks passed distant [and his wellness issues person been linked to] excessive vaping."

Jayden was fixed medicine and decided to halt vaping truthful the bleeding stopped days later. However, the teen admitted helium utilized an e-cigarette months aboriginal during his day play due to the fact that helium thought 'the harm was done' but ended up coughing up humor again and is present awaiting a CT scan.

Jayden said: "I ended up having different spell connected a vape. Stupidly I don't truly cognize what got into me. I wasn't heavy utilizing it but I was utilizing it beauteous frequently. I was conscionable sitting successful furniture and virtually had a cough. From the code of cough it was, I could archer consecutive distant it was going to beryllium my blood. I went to spit out. It wasn't excessively overmuch humor but it inactive wasn't bully to see. It was beauteous stressful.

"I thought the harm was done and it would conscionable heal itself and I thought that a fewer tokes connected a vape wouldn't impact me. But one was wholly incorrect and one cant judge however easy it was to get the harm done again.

"I'm feeling a batch of symptom successful the near broadside which I ideate could beryllium my near lung. I get predominant pain. I could beryllium sitting present conscionable doing thing and it could beryllium a crisp stabbing pain. It hurts erstwhile I cough. It's terrible."

He admitted helium would get done 1 10ml vessel of vape foodstuff each 2 to 3 days which is the equivalent to astir 50 cigarettes daily.

Jayden said: "Everyone was doing it astir me. I felt similar it was benignant of to acceptable successful but it conscionable felt mean to bash it. I was vaping everyday. I wouldn't truly enactment it down to beryllium honest. It's conscionable a atrocious wont really. Once you start, evidently it's highly addictive, it's hard to stop.

"When the disposables were much popular, you don't cognize what's really successful them. You find fake ones. None of it's bully but they particularly are truly atrocious for you. All sorts of chemicals.

"You don't cognize what they're truly putting in. They're unsafe and nary 1 should interaction them. They should beryllium banned successful each country.

"If I could spell backmost to that infinitesimal erstwhile I archetypal started I'd archer myself 'never to interaction 1 of them'. It's brainsick however unsafe they are and what they tin really bash to the quality body. You don't realise it erstwhile you bash it. It conscionable affects you successful the agelong run. I would ne'er interaction one."