On March 31, Esra went to a friend\u2019s home for a sleepover and, for what would be a fatal high, she sniffed a can of aerosol deodorant and went into cardiac arrest, sustaining irreparable brain damage.\n

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\u201cIt was just the regular routine of going to hang out with her mates,\u201d her mom Andrea, told\u00a0Langdon\u00a0in the interview. Her father Paul added, \u201cWe always knew where she was and we knew who she was with. It wasn\u2019t anything out of the ordinary\u2026To get this phone call at that time of night, (it) was one of the calls no parent ever wants to have to receive, and we unfortunately got that call: \u2018Come and get your daughter.\u2019\u201d\n

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Langdon explains that Esra\u2019s friends thought she was having a panic attack, \u201cbut after inhaling deodorant, her body was actually starting to shut down, she was in cardiac arrest and no one at the sleepover used cardiac arrest.\u201d\n

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When Andrea arrived at Esra\u2019s side, paramedics were trying to revive Esra and told mom that her daughter had been chroming, something she had never heard of until that moment.\n

Esra was taken to hospital held onto the hope that their baby girl would recover. After all, her heart and lungs were strong so maybe she would make it through.\n

After eight days on life support, Paul and Andrea were told that Esra\u2019s brain was damaged \u201cbeyond repair and we had to have that decision to turn off the machine.\u201d\n

Struggling with their words, and reliving their worst day, her parents explained the pain of ending their daughter\u2019s life.\n

Asked to bring family and friends to the hospital for their final goodbyes, Esra\u2019s dad said: \u201cIt was a very, very difficult thing to do to such a young soul. She was put onto a bed so we could lay with her. We cuddled her until the end.\u201d\n

Overwhelmed by the parent\u2019s heartache, and a mother of two young children, Langdon was unable to contain her emotions and teared up.\n

After Esra died in early April, Paul says the family is completely \u201cbroken,\u201d and Esra\u2019s siblings, Imogen, Seth and Charlie are \u201cshattered.\u201d\n

\u201cIt was really devastating, devastating for everyone involved, all her friends as well,\u201d Paul said. \u201cIt\u2019s been the most difficult, traumatic time any parent could go through. We haven\u2019t been sleeping, we\u2019ve hardly been eating, we haven\u2019t been smiling\u2013we\u2019re not ourselves\u2026But it\u2019s not just affected us, it\u2019s the community as well.\u201d\n

Never having heard of chroming until it killed their daughter, Paul and his wife are on a crusade to bring awareness to the deadly viral craze\u2013easily achieved with store-bought products like deodorant, paint, hairspray or even permanent markers\u2013that\u2019s increasingly popular among teens.\n

Speaking with a\u00a0local news station, Paul said he wished he knew of chroming when Esra was still alive, so he could have warned her of the dangers: \u201cIf we were educated and the word had been put out there, we would have had the discussion around our kitchen table for sure.\u201d\n

\u201cWe need to ramp it up and let these kids find out the information first-hand, and not through friends, and not through social media\u2013then they\u2019re given the right advice off the bat.\u201d\n

Paul plans to educate parents, allowing them the opportunity of educating their children, and hopefully saving their lives. their children.\n

\u201c(Parents) need to sit and have a chat to their children, and just open that conversation up gently with them. We certainly didn\u2019t know what was going on.\u201d\n

Since 2009, the alarming trend of chroming is responsible for the deaths of multiple children across Australia, and around the world.\n

Chroming\u2013that can lead to seizures, heart attack, suffocation, sudden sniffing death, coma, and organ failure\u2013is attractive to young people as a method to get an immediate short-term high.\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the pictures in our mind which will never be erased, you know, of what we were confronted with,\u201d Paul told Langdon. \u201cOur gut was ripped out.\u201d\n

We cannot imagine how painful it is for a family to make the decision of taking their young child off life support. Our hearts go out to the Haynes family and to all the loved ones that Esra left behind.\n

Share this story with everyone you know and help parents save the lives of their children by educating them on the dangers of this fatal trend.\u00a0\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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