[lelio]

How do you end up in the hospital after breathing in second hand albuterol?

[Jeff Chandler]

I've never heard of anyone having an allergic reaction to (what was most likely) inhaled albuteral. As a matter of fact, it is often used to relieve the symptoms of allergic reaction. And how much could the teacher possibly have ingested from having it blown into her face? There must be more to this story, because what I read doesn't make sense.

Any pharmacists out there?

[blackbart.223]

"The family, though, says he's a good kid and the charge of using deadly force simply doesn't fit the crime.

Does anyone but me see where this leading? All I can say is keep your kids out of public schools.

[MattAMiller]

It would be nice to know what exactly police are alledging that he did. Did he blow it right in her face?

[moyden2000]

Educrat thugs.

[SouthernFreebird]

They'll get my inhaler when they pry it from my cold dead fingers....


This is crap, you get one little puff from an inhaler and once you inhale there ain't much of that stuff left. I think this teacher has some mental health issues.

[FreedomGuru]

When asthma inhalers are outlawed only outlaws will have asthma inhalers.

[raybbr]

Meanwhile, Magnolia ISD released a statement saying the actions, “resulted in health consequences to a high school teacher. The district is working closely with law enforcement to complete an investigation and is taking all appropriate actions to protect the rights and interest of all involved.”

From here.

"They all agree it was not malicious, however, she ended up still having that reaction that supposedly threatened her life and so they charged deadly conduct ... the same charge as a handgun," said the uncle.

From here.

The school and the cops are nuts in this case. He will probably be better off out of the school anyway. I would like to see some action against the school based on medical discrimination. This is just plain nuts.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

If this story is true ,and the poor ,frail teacher did suffer some sort of minimal effects, I find it hard to be sympathetic because there are many teachers who are more harmful to their students every hour of everyday.... And they don't get kicked out of school for their abuses.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I wonder how many times he could be raped while being held for two days?

Most of the time, these Zero Tolerence laws, make zero sense.

[FairWitness]

The boy's family says eyewitnesses actually saw the boy take a couple of puffs from his rescue inhaler for treatment of asthma, then blowing the medicine at a teacher.

The reason the albuterol is effective is because it is so rapidly absorbed - by the time you could blow out again the residual albuterol would be extremely low. Sounds like a "placebo effect" (on the part of the teacher) to me.

[GretchenEE]

"It's possible he was playing a joke, or whatever, to see the smoke come out as he talked to her," theorized Wilson

It's not smoke. It's vapor.

These people have gone bonkers.

[ladylib]

This kid is being charged with a felony:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/020604_local_inhaler.html

If he wins, I hope he sues everyone concerned for malicious prosecution.