Teenager Dies Sniffing Deodorant Know The Dangers Of 'Chroming' A Menacing Social Media Trend Killing Children aerosol cans paint solvent permanent markers nail polish remover hairspray deodorants lighter fluid glue cleaning products
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Also known as huffing, this practice involves breathing in dangerous and menacing fumes that emerge from metallic paints, solvents
New Delhi: A 13-year-old Australian girl died after participating in a social media trend known as "chroming", which involves inhaling substances. Esra Haynes sniffed chemicals from an aerosol deodorant can, according to media reports.
Esra's family from Melbourne said they received a call from her friends to pick her up from a sleepover after she fell unconscious following an attempt at chroming.
What is chroming?
Also known as huffing, this practice involves breathing in dangerous and menacing fumes that emerge from metallic paints, solvents, petrol, and other household chemicals.
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Doctors say toxic chemicals include aerosol cans, paint, solvent, permanent markers, nail polish remover, hairspray, deodorants, lighter fluid, glue, cleaning products, nitrous oxide, or petrol.
Breathing in these, according to health experts, is a popular way of getting high without using hard drugs and has picked up as a popular trend on social media, among teenagers and youngsters.
Why is chroming dangerous?
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One of the most menacing chemicals - nitrous oxide is dispensed in cans, and put in balloons, but is completely illegal to inhale it recreationally. Doctors say the inhalation does result in a short-term high, but eventually slows down brain activity in the central nervous system.
According to studies conducted by the Journal of Alcohol Research
, repeated and long-term use of inhalants leads to cognitive impairment like not being able to concentrate, memory loss, a lower IQ, and impaired judgment.
The short-term effects of chroming include:
Slurred speech
Choking
Permanently brain damage
According to data by Drug-Free World, in the United States, an average of 5,93,000 teenagers between 12-16 years participated in sniffing, and 22 per cent of them had died.
Esra suffered a cardiac arrest
According to doctors, Esra suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away a week and a half after being treated in a hospital.
In the end, we had to make the decision, we had to turn off her life support, he was quoted as saying. It was really devastating, devastating for everyone involved, all her friends as well, Esra's father Paul Haynes told 7news.com.au.
According to The Strait Times, two 16-year-old boys have died after participating in the trend since 2019. Another teenage girl suffered brain damage after attempting chroming.
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