Teen Health Issues

Usage of the inhalants has become very common among the teens and they use these to get high. This is known as the huffing. Huffing is used by the teenagers who are 12 to 17 years of age. Accessibility and affordability are two causes that drive teenagers to abuse the inhalants. Aerosol deodorant is one such household that is used by the teenagers to get high.

Canned air used for electronics is also one such product that gives high to a teenager. By using inhalants a teenager not only destroys his mind but also have many chances of losing life.

What are Inhalants:
Inhalants such as cleaning fluids, paints, glues, solvents, compressed air cans are few of them which teenagers use to get high. They are the most generally used house hold things that are used in our day to day life.

Almost out of ten middle-school aged teens at least four of them get high using the house hold things. Inhalants are used by the teenagers because they find them cheap and keeps them high for at least 40 to 45 minutes. Teens opt for inhalants because they are easy to get hold of and are also easy to explain to the parents if they get caught.

Warning Signs:
• Huffing among teens causes them to perform low in their academics and to obtain low grades in school, lack of concentration in any work they do.
• Teenagers always complain to their parents about sores in mouth and frequent headaches.
• Teenagers who enjoy huffing have red eyes and parents find their clothes smelling of chemicals.
• Parents find their teens getting irritated for small things and often slur nonsense or they appear to be drunk.
• They often have paint stains on their face, clothing and hands.
• Teens suffer from rashes on the face, blisters around the nose, throat, lips and mouth.
• Teenagers have painful tongue, unexplained cough, bleeding nose and sudden weight loss due to huffing.

How to Help the Teens:
• Parents who find their teens huffing should not react by beating them up, yelling or by panicking.
• Parents should stay calm because there are chances of you driving the teens to conditions like cardiac arrests.
• Take your teens out and patiently read out the warning directions on the product to them and explain the side effects.
• Take them to a doctor to ensure that they are out of immediate danger.