Is Any Inhalant as Dangerous as Huffing Air Duster?
Question by Eddie: Is any inhalant as dangerous as huffing air duster?
I know that inhalants and all drugs are dangerous. But you always hear of the increased risk of death when people huff air dusters. What about say rubber cement or rubbing alcohol?
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Answer by Bassnectar
inhaling air duster can kill you seconds after inhaling it even after your first time.
other inhalants are not as dangerous but can still kill you after using it for a long time.
ive done air duster lots of times and regret it because its really stupid and bad for you not to mention people die from it.
Answer by salviablue
“Inhalants” is just a blanket term for substances that are consumed in a particular fashion – inhaling the vapours of a gas or volatile liquid. It covers many different substances, some more toxic than others.
Airduster contains fuorocarbons, which, although from a preliminary search, it seems it may offer no action of cell toxicity to the respiratory tract, there is a condition known as ‘horse rug lung’ which seems may be a reaction from long term inhalation of fluorocarbons, as noted by those whom have worked in factories where there are the heavy presence of fluorrocarbons.
Butane has no action of cell toxicity. There are however a few ways people can and do die from its use as an inhalant.
There are those methods of administration which run contrawise to common sense and are rather dangerous practice. These methods tend to be attributed to most substances which are inhaled.
Oxygen displacement – where by the user is receiving less oxygen than is required to survive usually by inhaling from/with in a bag, using a gas mask, small enclosed space, lask of fresh air, the user inhales continuously for an extended period.
Irritation of the vagus nerve leading to a heart attack – where by the user directly applies volatile liquid or liquidised gas to the throat. By spraying a gas can directly into the mouth, usually by gripping the nozzle between the teeth, or drinking a highly volatile liquid, the liquid gets very cold as it evaporates, irritating the vagus nerve by the throat.
Where the method of administration is practiced in a safe manner, there is still a possibility of death from butane inhalation. One where by too much is taken, or taken in
combination with other CNS depressants, leading to lethal respiratory depression. The other where by there is a high presence of adrenalin or catecholines (like during rigourous excercise or sudden fear), which can lead to fatal arrythmia due to the possible action butane has of stabilising the myocardial cell wall.
Inhalaing from a can for the purpose of consuming the propellant can carry the addition risks of whatever other chemicals are present in the product, either active ingredients or impurities.
Amylnitrites – seem to have no action of cell toxicity. Although there may be implications for those with heart or circulatory issues.
Nitrous Oxide (N2O) – Can cause demyelination of the nerves in the brain and spine, essentially nerve damage, the myelin sheath enclosing most of those nerves facilitates nerve impulses. This demyelination can be eliminated by ensuring suffiecient levels of vitamin B12 (cobalamin), which maintains the myelin sheath, and is what N2O interferes with, preventing it from ‘performing its caretaking role’. It has no other action of cell toxicity.
Ethyl ether – seems not to have any or much action of cell toxicity, neurotoxicity is debateable but there is evidence of hepatotoxicity or atleast decreasing the efficiency of the liver for upto 16hrs following consumption. Ether is extremely flammable and an irritant to the respiratory tract, it is also a CNS depressant. Ether is highly addictive psychologically, and carries physical addiction also, complete with delerium tremens type withdrawals.
Glues and adhesive solvents (like dichloromethane ‘polycement’) – can be highly toxic and cause much deletrious harm.
Petroleum distillates (like petrol, kerosene etc.) – like wise can carry much toxicity and and are generally mutagens (cause genetic mutations) and carcinogenic (causes cancer).
Many of these are solvents and tend to be retained by fat cells in the body, thereby slowly releasing the substance back into the blood stream over the course of the next few hours.
Generally, where an ‘inhalant’ has been used medically (except for chloroform and a few others not mentioned here), providing certain safety aspects have been adhered, it can be considered a relatively ‘safe’ substance. Although considerations must be given to quantity and frequency of use, contraindications and the fact that the amount of information known about their pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics is relatively small, especially from long term use or the long term effects.
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