Mum's desperate plea after deodorant leaves daughter with brain damage
<p>A Queensland mother has shared a desperate plea for parents to discuss the dangers of solvent abuse with their kids.</p>
<p>The emotional appeal comes after Sarah Nevins found her 16-year-old daughter Chloe lying in bushland without a pulse. </p>
<p>Chloe has been inhaling toxic fumes from a deodorant aerosol can with her boyfriend on June 1st when she went into cardiac arrest, cutting off the oxygen supply from her brain. </p>
<p>The concerned mum told The Courier Mail that her daughter was taken to <span>the Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital with a hypoxic brain injury, and remains confined to her hospital bed over a month later. </span></p>
<p><span>Sarah said, “I had no idea she was chroming, I didn’t even know that people did that.”</span></p>
<p><span>Chroming, more commonly known as solvent abuse, is when people try to get high by inhaling chemicals like paint, glue, petrol or other solvents. </span></p>
<p><span>Sarah said that paramedics performed CPR on Chloe for almost 30 minutes before she was admitted to the Brisbane hospital. </span></p>
<p><span>The mum posted a series of photos and videos of her unconscious child with a tracheostomy tube in her neck fighting for life.</span></p>
<p>“It’s upsetting because you’re looking at a wasted life,” she told The Courier Mail.</p>
<p>“Her quality of life is going to be severely impacted for the rest of her life.”</p>
<p>Sarah is hoping the shocking images of her daughter will prompt parents to <span>their children about the dangers of chroming. </span></p>
<p><span>She is also campaigning for manufacturers to remove toxic ingredients from their aerosol products to prevent further issues of solvent abuse. </span></p>
<p><em>Image credits: Facebook</em></p>
