6-Year-Old Dies After Breathing in Helium: Family

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I was a kid and passed out a few seconds after inhaling helium. I also wasnt alone. So something happened to me one of the other kids could have called for help

Another local Illinois tragedy being covered on IE within a month…. Can’t catch a break man

Note to all parents!

Poor baby, sending prayers to his family

What a nightmare

Since I was a kid I never wanted to do that, just seemed wrong to me.

Oh lord… preventable

Rip

This is horrifying. This poor baby. I did this all the time as a kid. In high school, my friends and I would go to a grocery store during lunch time and buy balloons to inhale the helium. I probably did it every day as a teen during the school year. I had no idea that the helium could be enough to actually displace oxygen in your lungs.

Parents should be charged with murder first degree

Poor baby 😢

Children need a lot of attention they are unaware of danger

Well just last week at my nephew's birthday party couple of my friends were inhaling the stuff and talking like a squirrel😮

Wow it looks like pumps are the safest option

Where did a 6 year old get the idea to inhale helium? Where did the balloon come from? It seems like children are raising themselves.

Darwin award

How long before there's a movement to ban balloons?

So sad ❤

Omg that’s so aweful! May God bring peace and comfort to the family 🙏🏽

This isn't supposed to happen. Party helium tanks MUST contain a bit of oxygen so that inhalation doesn't lead to asphyxiation.

😢that's so so sad

But why even breathe in helium?

7 imagine 9

Unsupervised young children. The parents should be ashamed 😡

oh my im soooo sorry to hear this awe i will not be alowwing my kids to do this my deepest condolences

R.I.P. little angel... 😢❤

I remember thinking my mom was exaggerating when she’d get mad I sucked helium out of a ballon, or was laying upside down to feel that fuzzy feeling as a kid. She always say I’ll understand as an adult, how dangerous this is, man I never knew it was this dangerous. But it makes sense given the whip it issue goin on, and how incredibly dangerous it is alone.


May he rest in peace, too young to go, but I pray he’s covered and happy right now. I also pray the family can receive some comfort in time, as they grieve and heal🙏🏾🩷

Helium is not toxic, in fact it is inert, but if you breathe in a lot of helium it REPLACES the oxygen, which can be fatal

My god, those poor children

RIP.
How did the mylar balloon got over her head?

I had passed out as a child because of a balloon and collapsed on the coffee table and fell

Holy horses...Rest in peace to this little boy!

Good parenting

Why are young people dying so often now?

Wtf.

You see celebrities doing this all the time for laughs and each time I think, someone’s kid is going to die doing this. How is it ok to model using inhalants of any kind?

I breathed helium a day before his death

Where did he get this idea?

Oh my God so sad 😭😭😭😭😭

So sad 😔

My mom never let my siblings and i suck in helium. Where was the adults?

Its shocking that Nitrous Oxide is safer because it still has oxygen in the molecule. Also it makes your voice sound like you inhaled sulfur hexafluoride. No oxygen in there either.

the gene pool is healing

Rip little angel… 😢

Skill issue

I had a scary experience with helium once. I was working at Five Guys & we were closing up the store. It had been someomes birthday & I was messing about with the balloons, doing the squeaky voice when suddenly I went completely blind for a couple of seconds, my eyes literally did that thing in the cartoons where the screen goes black slowly and just a circle of image is left in the middle, my whole vision just went to black & I became extremely light headed. It passed & I was okay afterwards, but have never messed with helium balloons since.

RIP, & prayers to the family. Such a tragic was to go

Seems odd for them to add in the two ladies at the end who also had kids "die to balloons" why not one that choked to death when a piece of balloon got caught in their throat, or one who got so scared from one popping they ran out into the street and got hit by a car... stay on point Inside Edition, actually talk about why it can be dangerous AF for little kids to do this. Helium displaces oxygen, when you're small your lungs are smaller hence easier to knock yourself out, zonk your brain out and you lose the muscle control to move air through your lungs and the helium stays there.

Natural selection

I did this twice as a kid so I would have the Mickey Mouse voice