An 11-year-old boy in the U.K. died last week after inhaling toxic chemicals, a TikTok trend called “chroming,” which is a practice experts warn can lead to health issues like brain damage, cardiac arrest and even death.
Long-term effects of inhaling toxic substances can lead to memory loss, a lower IQ, an inability to concentrate and impaired judgment, according to a 2018,” a slang term for cartridges filled with nitrous oxide that’s legally used to inflate balloons, though inhaling these cartridges is illegal.684,000. That’s how many adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 huffed or inhaled toxic chemicals in 2015, according to a 2017from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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