When I opened my newspaper this morning, I was a bit surprised with the news of inhalant abuse that happened in 4 years old boy. He has been inhaling gasoline since he was 2 years old. I think you ever saw this kind of inhalant abuse on street children. Do you want to know how exactly inhalant abuse works? Do follow this article!

Inhalant abuse can be categorize as addictive because it makes the people to do it again and again. There are many substances that could inflict inhalant abuse: glue, gasoline, hair spray, and ink. As these substances have fume aroma, it makes the people who inhale these to have focused concentration and sometimes hallucination on stronger substances.

Having this inhalant abuse excessively will sometimes cause sudden sniffing death, pneumonia, cardiac arrest, and poisoning.

Withdrawal symptoms of inhalant abuse are:
1. Confusing
2. Emotional disturbances
3. Motor disorder

If you have something that may has fume aroma like gasoline, make sure you close it tightly and put it aside from the your children. Do not let your children sniff any hair spray, ink, or any other substances that may cause inhalant abuse.

This may happen to your kid, if your kid is already on inhalant abuse, make sure to bring him or her to the drug rehabilitation center to have medication against his or her addiction to the inhalant abuse.

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