Inhalants are toxic vapors from substances like cleaning products and paint thinner that slow the body's functions. Short term effects include slurred speech, dizziness, and hallucinations. Long term use can cause muscle weakness, brain damage, and heart or lung damage. Repeated inhalation can cause sudden death from heart failure within minutes, called sudden sniffing death. Younger children abuse inhalants more than older children, and signs of abuse include red nose and loss of appetite.

1. Inhalants
Gregory Keilman

2. What are Inhalants?
• Inhalants are to put quiet simply are vapors
from toxic substances that slow down the
body’s functions.
• Inhalants can come in many things such as
household cleaning products and paint
thinner.

3. Short Term Effects
• Inhalants can cause slurred speech,
drunk, dizzy or dazed appearance,
inability to coordinate movement,
hallucinations and delusions, hostility,
apathy, impaired judgment,
unconsciousness, severe headaches,
rashes around the mouth and nose.

4. Long Term Effects
• Long term use of inhalants include; muscle
weakness, disorientation, lack of coordination,
irritability, depression, serious damage to the
heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain, hearing
loss, impaired memory, diminished
intelligence, and bone marrow damage.

5. Effects On The Body and Mind
• Inhalants if used for long periods of time can
make a person stupider it can also damage the
persons internal organs.
• Inhalants cause damage to internal organs due to
the toxic chemicals inhaled.
• The chemicals damage the body and mind
seriously.
• Heart failure and death can occur within minutes
after several repeated inhalations this is called
sudden sniffing death.

6. Game
• What is disturbing fact about inhalants?
A. More younger children abuse inhalants than older children
B. More older children abuse inhalants than younger children
C. Inhalants are only abused by senior citizens
• Heart failure and death can occur within minutes after
several repeated inhalations. What is this syndrome known
as?
A. Sudden sniffing death
B. Death by drugs
C. Bag death

7. Game continued
• What are the common household items used as inhalants?
A. All of these
B. Deodorant, hairspray, vegetable oil cooking spray
C. Correcting fluid and felt tip markers
D. Butane lighters and whipping cream containers with nitrous oxide
What are some of the warning signs of huffing or inhalant abuse?
A. High energy
B. Red runny nose, loss of appetite, depression
C. Active social life
D. Good grades in school

8. Answers
• Question 1: More younger children abuse
inhalants than older children
• Question 2: Sudden sniffing death
• Question 3: All of these
• Question 4: Red runny nose, loss of appetite,
depression
• Tally up your score and see how well you did.