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Inhalant use: Is your child at risk?
What are the risks of inhalant abuse?
What are the warning signs of inhalant abuse?
What's the best way to prevent inhalant abuse?
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What are inhalants?
What does it mean to huff an inhalant?
What are the risks of using inhalants?
What are the warning signs of inhalant use?
What's the best way to prevent inhalant use?
What if I find my child huffing?
What are the risks of inhalant abuse?
The initial euphoria of huffing might be followed by dizziness, slurred speech, and loss of coordination, inhibition and control. Hallucinations and delusions are possible.
If an inhalant causes the heart to begin working too hard, a rapid, irregular heartbeat (dysrhythmia) could trigger lethal heart failure — even for first-time inhalers. Chronic inhalant abuse can cause serious liver and kidney damage. Permanent brain damage, hearing loss and coordination problems are possible as well.
Other devastating effects of inhalant abuse might include suffocation, seizures, loss of consciousness and death.
