PARENTS have been issued an urgent warning after a child collapsed at school after one puff of a vape.
Glyn Potts, headteacher at Blessed John Henry Newman RC College, spoke of how pupils were left “shocked” and “scared” after their classmate passed out.
The teen became unwell and collapsed near the school gates after his first ever puff of a vape pen.
It was later revealed that the child had purchased the modified disposable vape, which claimed to contain CBD oil, in Cheetham Hill.
Thankfully, the child made a full recovery from the incident – but Mr Potts is warning of the dangers of vaping on young people’s health.
“We don’t know what is going in the vapes themselves, and a number of them are repurposed,” he told the Manchester Evening News.
“We are seeing vapes that have been reignited with chemicals and toxins that we don’t know about. That’s certainly the case with the young man that collapsed at our school.”
“Young people need advice and information that this type of device is not safe,” he said.
“Even in the most simple nicotine vape, they contain 12 times the amount of nicotine that a cigarette does. I’m not sure that an 11, 12, 13-year-old body can handle that.”
Mr Potts said the incident had left the pupil’s classmates shaken and ‘worried’.
“It does shock and scare young people when they see their friends become ill after just puffing on what appears to be innocuous white smoke,” he said.
He also warned parents to beware of a ‘misconception’ that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking for young people, calling the action a ‘new form of smoking’.
Source: The Sun