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"Whippets" is a slang term for nitrous oxide, a gas commonly used in medical settings as a sedative or pain reliever. Here's what parents should know.
While whippets have been around for years, Galaxy Gas is a nitrous oxide product that influencers, celebrities and teenagers have been spotted using across social media in recent months.
Nitrous oxide is said to enhance the effects of psychedelics. [6] Since nitrous oxide can cause dizziness, dissociation, and temporary loss of motor control, it is unsafe to inhale while standing up. Safer use can involve inhalation while seated to decrease risks of injury by falling.
The effects of inhalants range from an alcohol-like intoxication and intense euphoria to vivid hallucinations, depending on the substance and the dose. Some inhalant users are injured due to the harmful effects of the solvents or gases or due to other chemicals used in the products that they are inhaling.
The bills, which the Michigan House passed Tuesday, would ban the sale of devices used to recreationally inhale nitrous oxide from whippet canisters.
In behavioural tests of anxiety, a low dose of N 2 O is an effective anxiolytic. This anti-anxiety effect is associated with enhanced activity of GABA A receptors, as it is partially reversed by benzodiazepine receptor antagonists. Mirroring this, animals that have developed tolerance to the anxiolytic effects of benzodiazepines are partially ...
Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei.First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907 and commonly considered as a gastrointestinal disorder, Whipple's disease primarily causes malabsorption, but may affect any part of the human body, including the heart, brain, joints, skin, lungs and the eyes. [1]
Conventional toxins and irritants in the environment, such as saliva enzymes of blood-feeding parasites, insect poisons, or irritants in plants, can also cause allergic reactions. These substances can disrupt cell membranes , activate cell receptors , aggregate or degrade certain proteins, or disrupt the mucosal surface layer.