EXCLUSIVE Teens are using cooking accessory sold at Walmart to get 'high' and it's leading to a frightening wave of deaths By Maiya Focht Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 19:54 BST, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 19:54 BST, 28 September 2024 e-mail View comments Videos of teens getting light headed, falling over and crashing cars are circulating on social media and getting millions of views thanks to a wildly popular product called Galaxy Gas. It's a can of flavored nitrous oxide, also known as whippets or laughing gas , that is supposed to be used in whipped cream, cocktails and coffees.
Instead, people are inhaling the gas, which acts on the nervous system and gives the user a minute-long head rush and a euphoric, tingly feeling. In response, Galaxy Gas has paused sales of it's product. Dr Sulagna Misra, a primary care physician, told DailyMail.
com: 'This issue is very troubling because the high is temporary and is constantly being chased, and the product is very accessible.' She added people can overdose and die from the inhaling the gas because it robs the brain and body of oxygen. Nitrous oxide had claimed the lives of at least two dozen Americans.
Galaxy gas representatives told news outlets that their product is intended for culinary purposes only. As scrutiny has come on the company in recent weeks, it has paused selling their whipped cream cannisters The death of John Schoenig (pictured), who died at a Penn State frat party held off-campus in 2019, was rule.
