Tragic girl, 14, died after inhaling deodorant as spraying it 'comforted' her

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not so sure. Keep in mind this is a 14 year old with cardiac arrest

The article made it sound like she just sprayed it around like air freshener because it reminder her of the smell of her dead mother.

If deodorant spray was really that dangerous, you'd think we'd have heard of something like this before.

[–]iamonlyoneman 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Bruh.

Besides sudden cardiac arrest (the most common cause of death from inhalants), huffing can kill quickly in a number of other ways. https://www.drgreene.com/qa-articles/dangers-inhaled-aerosols-huffing

inhalant abuse, which is also referred to as “volatile substance abuse.” There are a wide array of chemicals in common inhalants that have the potential to cause immediate death. These chemicals can cause cardiac arrest or death in mere moments–and experts agree that there is no safe amount of inhalant. Inhaling poisonous chemicals can cause sudden sniffing death syndrome–a condition where the heart simply stops beating. https://fherehab.com/learning/huffing-and-ssds/

Spraying a can of deodorant in a lil bathroom is gonna kill you if you don't break it out into a few hundred little sprays at a time

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Perhaps you are right, though I still have some questions about this. Your linked text gives me the impression that these cases involved people that were intentionally huffing it, which you would think would involve much higher concentrations than spraying it around a room that you are in. Maybe it happens and its more dangerous than I realize, but I've never heard of an accidental case like this from non-concentrated exposure, people spray lysol aerosols all over the place all the time. Everyone I knew as a teen used to use it to cover the smell of weed, nobody ever died, and we used a lot in small rooms. Or maybe they are full of shit and the girl was straight huffing it. I don't know, its hard for me to draw a definitive conclusion one way or another about this, its a very unusual set of circumstances, but I'd need more convincing that some secondhand exposure like spraying it in a bathroom can kill you

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Perhaps you are giving the family credit for having more bathroom than they do. Some are pretty small and a whole can of anything would be too much.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well if that is the case, these products are awfully dangerous

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah that's why they all say things like "CONCENTRATING AND INHALING THE CONTENTS CAN BE HARMFUL OR FATAL"

https://i.imgur.com/iG5NZS5.jpg