A 20-year-old British girl has died days after issuing a warning about the dangers of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas.
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Amy Louise Leonard, from Bolton, shared a video taken from the back of an ambulance, explaining she was unable to walk for days after inhaling the gas.
In a message posted on Facebook, a young makeup artist known as Amy Lu urged Internet users to “lower the balloons,” meaning they should stop using the colorless, slightly sweet-tasting gas. About the dangers of the latter, she wrote: “It can deprive your brain of oxygen, cause dizziness, loss of consciousness and long-term nerve damage (…). I am currently hospitalized because it has left me unable to walk for three weeks.”
Hospitalized on September 29, the young woman died three days later from blood clots in her heart and lungs. His mother, 39-year-old Katrina Proctor, spoke about this. Daily mail that the family is “devastated” but determined to continue their daughter's fight. “Amy Lou was the sunshine in the room,” she told the British publication.
Nitrous oxide, used particularly in whipped cream cans, produces a short-term feeling of euphoria. Laughing gas is legal in Quebec, but banned in France and the UK.
Inhaling it can cause paralysis, blood clots or sudden death, according to health authorities.
