A teenager is lucky to be alive after his lung burst after inhaling laughing gas at a music festival. Alex Littler, 16, inhaled nitrous oxide at Parklife Festival in Manchester.
A teenager is lucky to be alive after his lung burst after inhaling laughing gas at a music festival.. But on the Monday he was rushed to hospital after he complained of a swollen neck, breathlessness and that his chest felt like ‘popping bubble wrap’.At the hospital, Alex was diagnosed with a ruptured and leaking lung with doctors telling him he was lucky to be alive.
Thankfully an oxygen mask that was left on overnight removed the trapped air without Alex requiring surgery. Alex complained of a swollen neck, breathlessness and that his chest felt like ‘popping bubble wrap’ Relaxed, giggly, sound distortions and/or dizzy, anxious, paranoid.How long it takes to workIt is dangerous to inhale directly from the canister as it is impossible to regulate the speed at which the gas leaves the canister – this can cause trauma to the respiratory system. The pressurised gas is also very cold and can cause frostbite of the lungs.
‘It upsets me thinking about it, it’s horrible. It could have been fatal. It could have killed him. His lung has got a hole in it.
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