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13-year Old Girl Dies From ‘Chroming’
in Latest Alarming Social Media Trend







An Australian teenager reportedly died from cardiac arrest after inhaling chemicals from an aerosol can
of deodorant, a practice called chroming.

Teens have engaged in huffing, or sniffing, glue and aerosol products for decades but social media is
accelerating participation, according to a National Post report.

Esra Haynes was placed on life support after inhaling the aerosol products but doctors were unable to
restore normal brain function, the report noted.

The report added that inhalants absorbed through the lungs pass to their blood and travel quickly to
the brain, producing brief, immediate intoxication.

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from “chroming” has urged action to prevent
similar deaths from occurring.

“We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It’s unquestionable
that this will be our crusade,” Paul Haynes, the girl’s father, told Australian outlet the Herald Sun.
“No matter how much you lead a horse to water, anyone can drag them away. It’s not something
she would have done on her own.

“The ripple effect is that this is absolutely devastating. We’ve got no child to bring home.”

Esra Haynes died after she inhaled fumes from a deodorant can, causing her to go into cardiac arrest
March 31. She remained on life support eight days, at which point doctors determined her brain was
“damaged beyond repair” and her family decided to turn off the machines. 

“[It was] just a regular routine of going to hang out with her mates,” Andrea Haynes, the girl’s mother,
told the Australian news program A Current Affair.

“They’re asking us to bring our family, our friends, to say goodbye to our 13-year-old daughter,”
Paul Haynes said. “It was a very, very, very difficult thing to do for such a young soul.”

Chroming, which appears to be an evolution of a decades-old trend of huffing or sniffing, involves
the participant sniffing anything from aerosol cans to metallic paints, gas and solvents.
Two boys, both 16, died from participating in the trend in 2019, according to The Straits Times.

Chroming has a broader definition, but the name arose from the act of sniffing chrome-based paint
as a means to get high, according to the National Retail Association.

The Victoria Education Department in Australia said it would increase efforts to provide children with
more information about chroming and its deadly effects following Esra Haynes’s death.

Haynes’ parents have also urged schools to teach CPR and are lobbying for a safer and less
toxic deodorant formula.

“We definitely have a mission to raise awareness for kids and anyone that does it,” her sister Imogen
told reporters. “We don’t want that to happen to anyone else. We don’t want another family to go
through this. It’s absolutely horrible.”

Some stores in Australia, including Woolworths and Coles, have started to lock aerosol deodorants
behind a glass case in response to the trend, People reported.


















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