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- Questions about child safety and injury prevention, as well as treatment for minor injuries.
- 4. The Choking Game - Top
- Although this is not a new problem, it can be fatal.
Typically school-aged children will do a variety of maneuvers to make each other get dizzy or pass-out. this may involve lifting each other up around the belly after hyperventilating, or using some method of choking each other.
This "game" is an unfortunate and sometimes fatal way to "get high" without using drugs.
Please discuss this with your children and explain that it is not a game, and it works by cutting off the flow of oxygenated blood to their brain, and can be fatal. - Updated: June 4, 2010
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