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Many teenagers use inhalants because they seem harmless, are often in your home and produce a quick buzz. However, inhalants provoke long-term irreversible damage to your body. Inhalant users sniff or snort the fumes, spray the aerosols into their nose or mouth, sniff fumes that were sprayed in a paper bag or huff (spraying a rag with inhalants and putting it in the mouth). Inhalants come in several forms:
Toluene: spray paint, glue, fingernail polish
- Effects: hearing loss, liver damage, kidney damage, brain damage
Trichloroethylene: Cleaning fluid, correction fluid, felt tip marker fluid
- Effects: liver damage, kidney damage, hearing loss
Hexane: gasoline, glue
- Effects: blackouts, limb spasms
Nitrous Oxide: gas cylinders, whipped cream dispensers
- Effects: blackouts, limb spasms
Benzene: gasoline
- Bone marrow damage
What are the common effects of inhalants?
- Slurred speech
- Lack of coordination
- Euphoria
- Dizziness
- Drowsy
- Brain damage
- Memory loss
- Anemia
- Nausea
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- Muscle weakness
- Irritability
- Depression