Deodorant Kills 12 Year Old Boy

A boy of 12 collapsed and died after using 'copious' amounts of deodorant in a cramped bathroom, an inquest heard. Daniel Hurley was overcome by solvents in the Lynx Vice spray and his heart began to beat irregularly, the hearing was told.

His father Robert found him collapsed in the bath at the family home after spraying on too much of the deodorant. Mr Hurley said he had desperately tried to revive Daniel but the schoolboy died in hospital five days later from cardiac arrhythmia - or abnormal heart rhythms. He told the inquest in Derby on Wednesday that Daniel 'was always putting gel on his hair and spraying deodorant'.

Mr Hurley told the inquest he had been making tea while his son used the bathroom at their home in Sandiacre, near Nottingham. 'The bathroom is adjacent to the kitchen and I shouted to see if he was OK,' he said. 'I heard nothing so I shouted again but did not get a reply. 'I forced the door open and found Daniel in the bath. I checked for his heart rate and his breath but he was not breathing.'

An ambulance took Daniel to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre. He died five days later on January 12 this year.

Consultant pathologist Dr Andrew Hitchcock, who carried out a postmortem examination on Daniel, said he found no evidence of substance abuse. There was also no evidence of any life-threatening disease, alcohol or drugs in Daniel's body.

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My Comment:

Hopefully this tragic incident will bring to light that our "personal care products" should be called our "weapons of individual destruction" or WIDs. While most people will not succumb to instant death from putting on their deodorant, everyone will have some type of detrimental consequences.

From shampoo to soap, from deodorant to hair care products, from toothpaste to moisturizing lotion (and suntan lotion), everything we slather ourselves in on a daily basis adds to a toxic load our body has to deal with. Our skin is our largest organ, so when we apply this chemical concoctions on the surface of our body, we are really "ingesting" these chemicals.

Think about the drug company's products: nicotine patch, birth control patch, ADHD patch, lidocane patch, progesterone cream, and many, many more. There are many transdermal pharmaceutical products on the market using a variety of packaging; patches, creams and gels. These products rely on the fact that the skin makes an excellent delivery vehicle for chemicals to easily get into the body. This is exactly what is happening every day when we go through our morning rituals.

For more information on personal care products, please visit the following two websites maintained by two personal friends of mine that are truly passionate about this topic:

Heather Carmona's Pure Alternatives:
http://www.PureAlternatives.net/

Jane Griffith's Skin Essentials:
http://www.SkinEssentials.us/