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  2. Recreational use of nitrous oxide - Wikipedia

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    Safer use can involve inhalation while seated to decrease risks of injury by falling. Inhalation directly from a tank poses serious health risks, as it can cause frostbite since the gas is very cold when released. For those reasons, most recreational users will discharge the gas into a balloon or whipped cream dispenser before inhaling. [7]

  3. Nitrous oxide - Wikipedia

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    Inhalation of pure nitrous oxide causes oxygen deprivation, resulting in low blood pressure, fainting, and even heart attacks. This can occur if the user inhales large quantities continuously, as with a strap-on mask connected to a gas canister or other inhalation system, or prolonged breath-holding. [citation needed]

  4. Inert gas asphyxiation - Wikipedia

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    The inhalation from larger helium balloons has been reportedly fatal. [26] A fatal fall from a tree occurred after the inhalation of helium from a toy balloon, which caused the person to become either unconscious or lightheaded. [27] In 2015, a technician at a health spa was asphyxiated while conducting unsupervised cryotherapy using nitrogen ...

  5. Teens, whipped cream and nitrous oxide: Should parents worry ...

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    There are several ways teens can get their hands on the drug, including by inhaling "the gas from balloons filled by tanks used in dental or automotive supply, from whipped cream dispensers that ...

  6. Asphyxiant gas - Wikipedia

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    The risk of breathing asphyxiant gases is frequently underestimated leading to fatalities, typically from breathing helium in domestic circumstances and nitrogen in industrial environments. [ 12 ] The term asphyxiation is often mistakenly associated with the strong desire to breathe that occurs if breathing is prevented.

  7. Breathing gas - Wikipedia

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    A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. Other mixtures of gases, or pure oxygen, are also used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied diving equipment, recompression chambers, high-altitude mountaineering, high-flying aircraft, submarines ...

  8. High-pressure nervous syndrome - Wikipedia

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    High-pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS – also known as high-pressure neurological syndrome) is a neurological and physiological diving disorder which can result when a diver descends below about 500 feet (150 m) using a breathing gas containing helium. The effects experienced, and the severity of those effects, depend on the rate of descent ...

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