Howard G. Smith MD, AM on Instagram: "Nitrous Oxide Dangers Those of us who frequent the operating room know the drug as the gas nitrous oxide. You know it as laughing gas. Its most accessible source are those small cartridges that power homemade whipped cream containers and you probably know them as “whippets.” A report just out in Mdlinx reviews the gnarly side of laughing gas abuse, and its no laughing matter. Because the nitrous euphoria is so short-lived, those who party with it tend to take repeat hits. A study from New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center reviewed 91 cases of nitrous toxicity as well as another group of 29 deaths linked to abuse of laughing gas. Besides cases of gas escaping into the chest cavity, pneumomediastinum, the study show that repeated use of the gas depletes your supply of Vitamin B12 which is responsible for undesirable neurologic consequences including myeloneuropathy, a malfunction of the spinal cord. So…this so called safe recreational drug is anything but. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/patients-partying-with-laughing-gas-are-unaware-of-these-severe-neurological-risks/2PLNuAYfSNoyURyg3KLwdd?show_order=1&utm_campaign=reg_evening-edition_250223_daily-nl-pm-v4_registered-users-a180&utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=emailA Adlin https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajad.12372 #nitrousoxide #laughinggas #myeloneuropathy #pneumomediastinum #drugabuse"

0 likes, 0 comments - drhowardsmithreports on March 4, 2025: "Nitrous Oxide Dangers Those of us who frequent the operating room know the drug as the gas nitrous oxide. You know it as laughing gas. Its most accessible source are those small cartridges that power homemade whipped cream containers and you probably know them as “whippets.” A report just out in Mdlinx reviews the gnarly side of laughing gas abuse, and its no laughing matter. Because the nitrous euphoria is so short-lived, those who party with it tend to take repeat hits. A study from New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center reviewed 91 cases of nitrous toxicity as well as another group of 29 deaths linked to abuse of laughing gas. Besides cases of gas escaping into the chest cavity, pneumomediastinum, the study show that repeated use of the gas depletes your supply of Vitamin B12 which is responsible for undesirable neurologic consequences including myeloneuropathy, a malfunction of the spinal cord. So…this so called safe recreational drug is anything but. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/patients-partying-with-laughing-gas-are-unaware-of-these-severe-neurological-risks/2PLNuAYfSNoyURyg3KLwdd?show_order=1&utm_campaign=reg_evening-edition_250223_daily-nl-pm-v4_registered-users-a180&utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=emailA Adlin https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajad.12372 #nitrousoxide #laughinggas #myeloneuropathy #pneumomediastinum #drugabuse".