Horror as girl, 12, rushed into hospital and put in induced coma after vaping left her 'weak'

A mum has warned of the dangers of vaping after her 12-year-old daughter was admitted to ICU and put in an induced coma.

Mary Griffin said her daughter Sarah, who has asthma, was hospitalised with a serious infection. An x-ray on her lungs showed one of them had been left badly injured, Belfast Live reports.

Sarah said that doctors told her if her young daughter hadn't been vaping, she would have been in a better position to fight off the infection. She said vaping had left her lungs 'very weak'.

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Mary, from North Belfast, is now raising awareness of the dangers of vaping in a new campaign by Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke’s (NICHS). She said her daughter hadn't been 'vaping heavily' but 'that, coupled with her asthma, was such a dangerous combination'.

Explaining what happened when Sarah fell ill, Mary said: "It was a Sunday night, Sarah was getting ready for bed and said she didn’t feel great. She started coughing but because Sarah has asthma, we put that down to the change in weather as that has been a trigger for Sarah’s asthma before.

"Her cough was no different from any other time and she used her inhaler and nebuliser throughout the Sunday night into Monday morning. That morning I was taking my other two children to school when Sarah rang and said, ‘Come back mummy, I don’t feel well, I’m afraid’.

"I got home, gave Sarah her inhaler and nebuliser again and she seemed to settle. A while later I popped out to the shop quickly and Sarah rang again, this time completely out of breath, barely able to string a sentence