Deodorant – boy killer?

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Daniel Hurley, a 12-year-old boy, collapsed in January after spraying on Lynx deodorant in the bathroom of his Derbyshire home.A coroner in Britain has determined that a 12-year-old boy died after using too much spray deodorant in a confined space.

He died five days later in hospital because from a cardiac arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythms. His father Robert Hurley told the coronial inquest that Daniel was a fit and healthy young man who was proud of his appearance, and lavish in his use of hair gels and deodorants, which he often sprayed all over his clothes.

By spraying the deodorant in a confined space, the coroner found, the concentration of solvents affected the 12-year-old's heart. His death followed a previous incident several weeks earlier, when he had collapsed in the bathroom but immediately recovered.

The New South Wales president of the Clean Air Society, Kerrie Ross, says spray-on deodorant is safe if used properly. "It was not being used in accordance with instructions; it was not being used in accordance with what one would normally call common sense," she said. "In normal use, in normal sensible use, they wouldn't be a problem. [But] if you lock yourself in a room, you have a medical condition, you overuse it, of course you can cause problems. "And if you fail to heed warnings from previous attacks, of course you can get into problems. But that's the same with anything. (…) Just use [the products] with common sense, use them according to the instructions and it should be OK. It seems he was using excessive quantity," he said.

The manufacturer of Lynx deodorant, Unilever, has expressed condolences to the Hurley family; the company says it has never seen a case like this before.

Source: fox, au

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