“If you encounter someone without a pulse, the faster you start CPR, the better chance that person has of living,” he said. The new article should also serve as a reminder of the importance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Stolbach said. To kids it seems like harmless fun because it involves something they are familiar with and they tend to think of things that are around us - everyday products we see in the garage or the bathroom - as safe.” I grew up in the suburbs and lots of kids would do this. You don’t see a lot of it in hospitals, but it seems reasonably prevalent. I learned about it when I was training as a medical toxicologist. “It’s not on the scale of opioids or alcohol. With that said, “not a lot of people die from it,” Stolbach noted. “I would bet a lot of kids are doing it who don’t have access to other drugs.” “I think the number of people who either sniff or huff or bag is probably higher than we think,” said Stolbach, a medical toxicologist and emergency physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. A 14-year-old honor student from Northridge died this week after inhaling computer keyboard cleaner, a growing trend among students as young as eighth grade. Andrew Stolbach believes that in the U.S., it’s much more widespread. While the Dutch authors suggest that inhalant abuse is confined to troubled kids, Dr. After the brain damage the patient did not have enough brain function to sustain life.” Ultimately, Kramp explained, what killed the teen was “the time the brain went without oxygen during the cardiac arrest.
Inhalant abusers use one of three methods to ingest the volatile substances that will give them a brief high: direct inhalation, known as sniffing inhaling through a piece of cloth, known as huffing and bagging, which involves breathing the substance in through a plastic bag or balloon. Cardiac arrests after inhalant abuse are common enough that they’ve been given a name: “sudden sniffing death.”
In the U.S., inhalant abuse accounts for as many as 100 to 200 deaths each year, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Medical personnel unfamiliar with inhalant abuse can be confronted with their dramatic consequences, such as cardiac arrest.” Kelvin Harvey Kramp of the Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam. “The use of volatile substances in everyday household products has a very low prevalence in the general population, but most abusers belong to a group of people we should give extra attention to as a society: youngsters in puberty from troubled households,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. The 19-year-old’s cardiac arrest and eventual death were described in an article published in BMJ Case Reports. (Reuters Health) - The death of a Dutch teen serves as a grim reminder of the dangers associated with inhaling common household products, such as spray-on deodorant, keyboard dusters and whipped cream.
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