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Helium gas that can make a funny voice is easily available in the area.
However, as in the recent case of middle school students in Incheon, there is a risk of suffocation if drunk incorrectly, so it is pointed out that we should be wary of the atmosphere that views helium gas too lightly.
This is reporter Hwang Yun-tae.
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It is a helium gas balloon that you can buy on the street for a few thousand won.
How’s my voice?
It’s such a funny voice.
For this reason, helium gas is also called ‘Donald Duck’ gas.
It is known to have no adverse effect on the human body, and the deformed voice is interesting, so it is often used at parties and entertainment programs.
Is helium gas really harmless to the human body?
When helium, which is lighter than air, enters the lungs, it exhales carbon dioxide, which prevents oxygen breathing and can kill you from asphyxiation within minutes.
Of course, if you inhale a large amount at once under certain circumstances.
It is also presumed that a middle school student in Incheon died of suffocation while drinking helium gas using a plastic bag on the 6th.
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In 2018, in Busan, 20 people who invested in virtual currency and lost all of their investment made an extreme choice using helium gas.
Experts point out that deliberately inhaling helium gas, even as a joke, is dangerous.
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Above all, it is pointed out that the basic perception of helium gas, which is ‘ridiculous’ and ‘safe’, needs to be changed.
This is YTN Hwang Yun-tae.
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