A minute of euphoria for irreversible damage: the very serious effects of “hilarious gas” on the brain

• The increasingly frequent use of nitrogen oxide. Nevertheless, in particular by minors, worries the authorities at the highest point.
• The euphoric effects last only one minute barely, but causes irreversible, sometimes fatal neurological damage.
• Focus on the risks implying the consumption of this drug, accessible and inexpensive.

For a long time. Nevertheless, when it was only a question of making it an analgesic in a hospital environment or of include it in the whipped cream siphons, minute euphoria irreversible damage: very the use of nitrogen oxide, now commonly nicknamed “hilarious gas”, did not make anyone laugh. Similarly, And now that it has been massively diverted for recreational purposes. However, to the point of becoming the substance most consumed by young French people under 25 (after alcohol and tobacco), in search of euphoric sensations which it provides much lower cost than that of any other addictive substance, the phenomenon worries at the highest point the authorities and health professionals, as shown in the JT report In the video at the top of this article. Nevertheless, What risks exactly implies the consumption of this drug?

My brain died

Wail Megor. Similarly, victim of a road accident after having

“I inhaled nitrogen oxide while driving and I saw a black hole suddenly. My brain died. Everything was dilated in me. and I hit minute euphoria irreversible damage: very the tree hard”recalls Wail Meqor, victim of a serious road accident on January 1, 2019, while he was driving at 190 km/h. On the asphalt, no trace of braking. But in the car, several capsules … now 28 years old, the driver keeps consequences of his concussion then: he has trouble speaking and moving. This does not prevent him from prevention in colleges and high schools. The number of accidents that this product would have caused is multiplied. This Thursday. June 26, a half-empty nitrogen protoxide bottle was discovered in one of the vehicles collided on the A8 motorway, near Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), killing three people instantly.

Researcher Guillaume Grzych. recognized as one of the world nitrogen oxide specialists for having long studied its effects on the human brain, thus detailed, at the microphone of TF1 on March 26, the consequences of inhalation: “We are going to have losses of balance, people who will gradually lose the coordination of the members, even control of the members. It looks a bit like multiple sclerosis. Paralysis will come and settle, with people who finish in wheelchair. But in a few minutes, the gas disappears both from the air expired and the blood. So we have difficulties in screening.” The police, they deplore, in addition to this inability to detect it, the legality of the holding of the product.

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“Hilarious gas”: nitrous oxide poisoning increases. newborns now affected

On its site (new window)the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Labor Health Safety (ANSES) list of other medical inconveniences caused by the consumption of this gas: loss of dosage control as dependence increases; Intense nervous pains (burning or electric discharge sensations); Urinary disorders, even incontinence; cardiovascular problems; Formation of blood clots, potentially fatal in case of pulmonary embolism; hallucinations; delusional puffs; mood psychiatric disorders; decrease in reflexes; Neurological disorders in newborns in the event of recurring use by the mother before or during minute euphoria irreversible damage: very pregnancy (two cases proven in 2023)…

And to those who believe that vitamin B12 can act as “antidote”, urban legend increasingly widespread, ANSES responds, categorical, that it “will be systematically neutralized and made ineffective” by the effects of nitrogen oxide.