PETROL / GASOLINE
SYMPTOMS:
- They have a gasoline aroma on their clothes and breath
- Body tremors
- Clumsiness and poor coordination
- Mood swings
- Periods of depression
- Paranoia
- Aggression
- Personality changes
- Memory loss and blackouts
- Loss of appetite
- Secretive behavior and lying
- Criminality
- A rash around their nose or mouth
- Inability to sleep
- Always tired
- Periods when they are extremely talkative
- Inability to hold down a job
- Unable to meet family and social commitments
APPEARANCE:
- Liquid
- Inhalants
- Vapors
- Pressurized gases
DANGERS:
- Respiratory problems
- Permanent brain damage
- Depressed immune system
- Blood abnormalities
- Heart damage
- Liver and kidney damage
- Chronic headaches
- Chronic fatigue
- Nose bleeds
- Irregular heart beat
- Miscarriages
- Low birth weight for babies of mothers who abused this inhalant
- High and low blood pressure
- Lung infections
- Brain hemorrhage
- Seizures
- Coma
- Family problems
- Financial problems
- Death.
WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS:
- Irritability
- Mental fogginess
- Mood swings
- Reduced appetite
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Depression
MORE INFO:
They may look like someone who is drunk on alcohol but act a bit more strangely. Sometimes you can smell the strong odour of petrol on them. These effects can last up to an hour, and longer if they keep sniffing. In serious cases people may have fits.
It is possible to die from sniffing because the petrol is taking the place of oxygen in the blood and not enough oxygen is being taken to the brain. People have died this way from sniffing with a jumper or blanket around their head because it stops oxygen getting to the lungs.
People have died from doing exercise like running or playing football straight after sniffing. The combined stress of sniffing and exercise put too much pressure on the heart.
Many people who sniff have suffered serious burns or death because the petrol caught fire. Sniffing around any flames or fire is very dangerous.
