Medics have described increase in neurological injuries resulting from laughing gas as an epidemic
“When I did a retrospective analysis of all patients admitted in 10 years prior to April 2020, not a single patient had been diagnosed with neurological complications due to nitrous oxide abuse at our hospital,” said the lead author, Maximilian Einsiedler.to supply nitrous oxide for human consumption or to sell it to children, it is not illegal to possess the drug.
However, there are concerns that large canisters of the gas are becoming more common, with giant containers 80 times the size of whippits found in the streets of London after the Notting Hill carnival this weekend. Harry Sumnall, a professor in substance use at Liverpool John Moores University, said there was a lack of hard data on the prevalence of serious problems resulting from nitrous oxide use in the UK.
While Sumnall said that even a relatively small rise in cases from a low baseline was of concern to neurologists, he said the people most at risk of significant complications were those exposed to high quantities of the gas. “Just to put it into perspective, [there are] more than 600,000 users in the UK, and most people if they are using it are going to be using it a few times a year, at really low levels of risk,” he said.
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