https://people.com/australian-teen-dies-chroming-trend-inhaling-aerosol-propellants-7501654Esra Haynes was only 13 years old when she went into cardiac arrest at a slumber party at a friend’s house.
By all accounts, the Melbourne eighth grader was a healthy, athletic teen, with no preexisting conditions. She and her friends had been celebrating Haynes being named co-captain of their under-14 AFL team, a version of soccer known locally as “footy,” earlier in the day.
The cause of her heart failure? Chroming, a dangerous trend in Australia that her parents Paul and Andrea said caused the young girl to go into cardiac arrest and suffer irreparable brain damage.
"[It was] just a regular routine of going to hang out with her mates," her mother, Andrea, told the Australian news program A Current Affair. But while at the March 31 party, her parents say Esra inhaled chemicals from a deodorant can for a quick high, which ultimately caused her death.
Known stateside as “huffing,” chroming — sniffing and inhaling household chemicals normally stored in aerosol cans — is alarmingly on the rise in Australia because it produces quick, cheap, and easily accessible high.
