A 12-year-old boy from the United Kingdom is fighting for his life after taking part in a viral “chroming” trend on TikTok. Chroming involves sniffing the fumes from deodorant, nail polish remover, or hairspray to get high.
According to the Daily Mail, Cesar Watson-King inhaled a can of spray deodorant to get high after an older boy told him about the chroming trend.
Moments later, he started experiencing a seizure, and he stopped breathing. His mother performed CPR while his brother called for help. King was rushed to the hospital, where doctors put him in a medically induced coma.
“When police told me what he’d inhaled, I thought he was going to die. I knew it said on the back of cans: ‘Solvent abuse kills instantly,'” King’s mother said.
Luckily, her son survived and was released from the hospital after eight days.
“I was over the moon. He was almost back to completely normal when he was discharged — eating, drinking, having a laugh. He just feels tired,” she said. “We don’t know about long-term damage, but his short-term memory is very bad. He couldn’t remember what had happened.”
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