A disturbing cooling therapy leaves a dead woman and other wounds

It seems that the disabled cooling machine has led to the tragic death of a 29 -year -old woman in Paris, France, this week.

Unusual death Get Monday evening in Jim in Jim, east of central Paris, according to local law enforcement. It seems that a woman, an employee in the gym, appears to have died due to the nitrogen leakage of the cooling treatment machine. A second -year -old woman, 34 years old, was seriously injured and currently in intensive care.

Cool therapy, or cooling, is an emerging practice. One of its modern forms, which is completely cooling, requires people to be completely exposed to very cold temperatures for several minutes at a time. Some research suggest Cooling treatment can reduce certain types of pain and inflammation, and it may have other health benefits, such as Sleeping improvement.

The treatment machines are often used by the cooled liquid nitrogen to produce these temperatures. In this case, the temperatures may reach -148 ° F (-100 ° C), according to AFP. But when it is a gas, nitrogen is without smell and uncomfortable. As a result, the European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) to caution These machines can be incorrectly designed or safety of safety. If a lot of nitrogen gas leaks into two cabin by cooling or surrounding space, it can quickly remove oxygen without notice, which can then suffocate people.

This seems to be the case here. Both women were in the event of a heart stop by the time when emergency services arrived. Three other people who tried to revive women were also transferred to the hospital, while about 150 people were evacuated from the building.

According to the police, the machine is supposed to be repaired earlier in the day – a reform that may have been tragicly wrong. But the authorities say they are still conducting an investigation. “An autopsy analysis and toxicology will be performed to determine the exact cause of death,” a Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office spokes He said The guardian.

Cooling -related deaths are rare, but no one has heard. In 2015, for example, a spa employee in Las Vegas He died by mistake from suffocation From using a cooling treatment machine.