Boy dies after using too much deodorant

[canetoad]

Boy dies after using too much deodorant
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/21/1226770737888.html

November 22, 2008

LONDON: A 12-year-old English boy collapsed and died from heart problems after spraying too much deodorant in the family bathroom.

Daniel Hurley was overcome by the solvents in the can and collapsed in the bath. He died five days later in hospital.

An inquest heard that Daniel died from cardiac arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythms, caused by solvents in the Lynx Vice spray.

Unilever, which makes Lynx, warns on the cans against over-spraying and says it must be used in well-ventilated places.

Why oh why do we insist on using too many chemicals on and in our bodies and houses?

[lapfog_1]

1. Probably believed all those commercials

with the hot models literally throwing themselves at the handsome 20 year old actor who just sprayed themselves.

12 year old.

Sigh.

[LeftyMom]

4. That stuff they market to teenage boys smells like roadkill and lighter fluid anyhow.

:puke:

[AlCzervik]

6. like Axe, it smells like Abercrombie and Fitch--

home of the triple popped collar, the mark of the douchebag.

[KitchenWitch]

39. ding ding ding!

:D

[lonestarnot]

49. Axe and ass ick.

[AlCzervik]

51. they spray so much of it you can actually taste it, i hate the mall but the Trifecta

of douchebags, Abercrombie, American eagle and Aerepostale makes me feel stabby.

[lonestarnot]

53. Stabby!

That's a funny adverb. Is that where you throw-up in your mouth a little bit? :D

[bulloney]

41. I tell my teenage boys they smell like Raid when they use that Axe.

And they really do smell like Raid.

[awoke_in_2003]

43. Hey, that happens to me all the time...

when I use Axe :)

[nini]

2. they still make spray on deodorant?

I had no idea. :shrug:


Poor kid :-(

[kimmerspixelated]

3. This story makes me sick.

In this day and age, to still be using chemicals on our bodies!!! I gave up mainstream deodorants years ago, and certainly don't recall the last time I ever sprayed some! Having said that, it DID take some trial and error to find a natural deodorant that passes the test: It's called Herbal Magic. I know, riveting name, huh? It works all day! BUT I digress... WHAT KIND OF PARENT WOULD BUY A KID SPRAY-ON deodorant??? I thought aerosols were banned in the first place!

[readmoreoften]

5. Probably one working two jobs. The kid probably used a dad or older brother's stuff.

[trudyco]

10. Thanks for the tip - we hadn't found an effective one. Who makes it? nt

[kimmerspixelated]

25. Herbal Magic by Home Health

[BrklynLiberal]

26. A few places to look..

http://www.thecrystal.com/index.cfm

http://www.thegreenguide.com/justask/board.mhtml?bid=39

http://www.zoomlavilin.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Now-Lavilin-Arm-Deodorant-12-5/dp/B0001T1LCG

[frylock]

36. i've been using a crystal for over a year now..

it's great.

[BrklynLiberal]

56. I agree. That is what I use too.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Herbal Magic deodorant? No way! Too many chemicals!

It contain narigin, terpinene, butyl angelate, phenylethylamine, phoratoxin, quercetin, and dihydrogen monoxide.

[kimmerspixelated]

23. I can shoot off the ingredients:

algae extract, aloe vera Gel,witch hazel,fennel,hops,chamomile balm mint,yarrow,grapefruit seed extract, shall I go on?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. Yes, exactly.

Those extracts are composed of the nasty chemicals I mentioned.

[hogwyld]

29. That's sort of like banning the toxic substance

dihydrogen monoxide...






















= H2O = Water...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

31. My point exactly.

It's chemophobia.

[kimmerspixelated]

59. Oh! You were being sarcastic..

If not..WTF!

[awoke_in_2003]

47. Over consumption...

of dihydrogen monoxide can lead to death :)

[awoke_in_2003]

46. I gave up deodorant...

8 years ago, too irritating. Have you ever read the ingredients? And we apply that stuff on our lymph nodes. The only time I sweat in the pits is when I am doing work around the house, anyway, and that is followed by a shower. I have asked my wife and she has not noticed any foulness since I stopped.

[Profprileasn]

57. Me either.

[surrealAmerican]

54. Nobody said the parent bought it.

These products get a following in middle-schools. The boy may have bought it himself.

[Warpy]

7. Nah, this kid was huffing

although how he could stand the smell to suck in that much propellant is beyond me.

My condolences to his family, but simply unloading the whole can in a closed space wouldn't have done it to him.

[Ian David]

9. No shit. Of COURSE he was huffing. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. It wouldn't surprise me. :^(

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. My first impression. n/t

[TahitiNut]

16. Yup.

No 12-year-old boy gives a shit about body odor. Especially an English boy. The more the better. :shrug:

[MattBaggins]

17. Damn can we get our Europhobias straight?

I thought the French were the smelly ones.

[TahitiNut]

21. Nothing "phobic" about it.

I happen to think Americans are far TOO conscious of such shit ... and the Japanese even more so. I've spent enough time in both France AND England (and elsewhere abroad) to have ANY 'phobias' regarding such trivial shit. Only an person IMMERSED in Americana would ASSUME that a mention of body odor was 'phobic.' That's nonsense.

[MattBaggins]

27. Au contrare

I spent 6 years living in Germany and traveled around Europe and into Russia. My wife is German and her family doesn't have our same appreciation of toiletries. I have experienced the dizzying oxygen deprived vapors of an American mall and the nose hair turning funk of an East German night club.

So there... or something.

Yes I see that I missed your sarcasm or exasperation with the poster you were responding to.

[rucky]

24. Yep. And no British kids have ever drowned in toothpaste.

AFAIK

[semillama]

34. No, this is the phobia about the pasty hairless English.

the assumption being that he wouldn't have any underarm hair...

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Not according to the pathologist

Consultant pathologist Dr Andrew Hitchcock, who carried out the postmortem examination, said that he found no evidence of substance abuse.

He also found no evidence of any life-threatening diseases, alcohol or drugs in Daniel's body.

He said: "What we have in this case is someone who may well have had a cardiac abnormality in the presence of the solvent.

"There is a very reasonable assumption that the passive inhalation (of the solvent in the deodorant) almost certainly led to his death."

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/DEODORANT-KILLS-BOY-12/article-487911-detail/article.html

And, as the Australian story also points out (as well as the local paper I've linked to), the boy used a lot of gels, and sprayed his clothing as well as his body.

[SoCalDem]

32. and his parents are suffering from serious denial.. reminds me of...

Here in "the Southland", every time there's a gang shoot out, the families are interviewed on tv along with pictures of their departed (usually) son.. The guy's dressed in gang clothes, flashing signs (sometimes holding liquor), tattooed with gang tats, and yet Mom , Granny, or famliy friend always said the same stuff..

My cynical son (takes after me) would always say..

honor student?
getting his life together?
hardworking nice kid?
quiet, friendly boy?

Sometimes they would get all 4 in, but usually at least 2 of them made it on the air, when everyone watching knew that this kid was a gang-banger, and not that it made him deserve to be dead, but somewhere along the line, those "adults" must have "wondered" where all that new stuff came from...

[SmileyRose]

35. Count me in too. - my family has been there done that.

a close friend of my sister's - her teenage boy. The poor woman still thinks her son died because his bedroom wasn't ventilated well enough and somehow the canned air he was cleaning his computer with went toxic.

[Edweird]

38. My guess as well.

[Occam Bandage]

40. Agreed. Any other claim seems like sad denial.

[JuniperLea]

48. That was my first thought too...

Condolences, absolutely. And the hope they educate themselves.

RIP little stoner dude.

[lurky]

8. Appealing to guys' insecurity will always be effective marketing.

I recently had someone swearing up and down to me that Axe body spray has pheromones in it and was like some kind of magic girl magnet. Amazing what some people will choose to believe when they want to badly enough. :shrug:

[Ian David]

11. If you stuff the can inside your underpants, it IS a girl magnet. n/t

[Kahuna]

19. ...

:rofl:

[Buns_of_Fire]

33. DON'T DO IT! Those cans are COLD this time of year!

Uh... or so I've been told...

[awoke_in_2003]

50. No, Axe uses bits of panther...

"Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good."

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. I think Warpy is right

the kid was huffing

poor kid

[Gwendolyn]

15. Since he passed out a few weeks earlier for the same reason...

... it does sound like he was huffing. :(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. I blame the evil sexist chemically corporate hygience companies.

Wait... what? He was huffing?

Nevermind.

[leftofthedial]

30. boy

that stinks

[Joe the Liberal]

37. I use spray on deoderant.....

it works fine for me, this kid must have emptied the can, you're only supposed to spray a little bit.

[jmowreader]

42. Yeah, he emptied the can into a t-shirt bag...

and then shoved his face into it.

[Tutankhamun]

44. Maybe he should have "huffed" a bonghit or two

thousand.

[underpants]

45. A runner in NJ died a few years ago OD'ing on sports cream

she was a 800M runner. She built up such a resistance that she eventually used too much.

The skin is the new kidney and liver

[kitty1]

52. I swear my son depleted the ozone above our house with his axe spray

He's a little better now with the amounts he uses now. But he could just about choke a horse at times with the scent after using it.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

55. I hate when I "taste" my deodorant...

I finally trained myself to hold my breath when I spray, and don't breath till I get down the hall.

And that's just LeftGuard:silly:

[Generator]

58. Do they even make that here anymore?

I thought it was all sticks and gels. Tell me there is nothing wrong with teen spirit-it's what I got my kid.