A Common Cleaning Product Killed My Daughter

If I could just take a few minutes of your time and hopefully spare another family the nightmare that my family will now live for the rest of our lives. My name is Kelli and my daughter's name was Jeny.

On March 25, at 10:30 p.m., we received a call from the hospital telling us that Jeny had been in an accident. They wouldn't tell me she was okay, just to get to the hospital. After driving 15 miles to get there, we weren't allowed to see her and couldn't find out if she was okay. We waited two hours before a police officer took us to another room. He showed us a cleaning product. He said the driver of the car had "huffed" it.

We had no idea of what he was talking about - never heard of huffing. The driver of the car had inhaled the cleaner and immediately passed out. The car went down an embankment, across interstate 75 and hit the cement divider in the medium. The driver and the two passengers in the backseat walked away. Jeny's head went through the windshield and hit the divider. She died immediately.

Jeny was an A-B student, popular in her school, loved life - and I know she would have never tried inhalants had she known the danger and especially riding with someone who was driving and inhaling. They were just "having fun". We never got to say goodbye to Jeny. In a matter of minutes, her life was cruelly taken away. So, for the parents reading this, please, know what your child is doing, and educate yourself about inhalants. It's a drug and it's dangerous. For the kids out there reading this, please, don't be stupid.

Don't think inhalants can't hurt you, because they can and they kill. Don't allow your parents to go through the nightmare that we are now living.

Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE)