![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/devastating-warning-after-boy-5-dies-putting-head-into-helium-dinosaur-balloon/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_karlton.jpg&description=Dinosaur-mad Karlton Noah Donaghey had put his head in a dinosaur balloon he'd got at a funfair in Newcastle days earlier, with the helium causing a catastrophic brain injury Parents have been issued a devastating warning after a five-year-old boy suffocated by putting his head in a dinosaur helium balloon. Karlton Noah Donaghey died tragically as a result of the balloon accident in what was dubbed "every parent's worst nightmare". The youngster, from Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, had been playing in his garden at home moments before he was found unconscious in the family's living room. An inquest heard Karlton had been playing in a paddling pool with his cousins on the evening of June 29 last year, when he went to change. Whilst inside, he had placed a helium balloon in the shape of a dinosaur - which he'd been gifted day earlier at Newcastle's travelling funfair The Hoppings - on his head. Karlton's mum Lisa found him unresponsive 10 minutes later, Chronicle Live reports, with a medically-trained neighbour rushing to provide help whilst paramedics were summoned to the scene. But the efforts were not enough to save the youngster, who suffered from a hypoxic brain injury which he died of in hospital six days later. Now a coroner has vowed to write to Newcastle City Council's public health department over the tragic events, urging officials to take action over the danger posed by the balloons. At an inquest on Monday, Karlton's devastated mum Lisa paid tribute to her "incredibly precious boy" taken by a tragic accident. "I just want everyone to understand that Karlton was an incredibly precious boy," mum Lisa told Newcastle coroner's court. "For me and Karl he was our only child and he was precious to everyone he met. This tragic accident took him away from everyone who loved him." She added: "As his mum and dad we will carry him with us forever." During the inquest it was heard Karlton had loved dinosaurs, with his first words as an infant having been "dinosaur roar". The){kind=link}
Dinosaur-mad Karlton Noah Donaghey had put his head in a dinosaur balloon he’d got at a funfair in Newcastle days earlier, with the helium causing a catastrophic brain injury
Parents have been issued a devastating warning after a five-year-old boy suffocated by putting his head in a dinosaur helium balloon.
Karlton Noah Donaghey died tragically as a result of the balloon accident in what was dubbed “every parent’s worst nightmare”. The youngster, from Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, had been playing in his garden at home moments before he was found unconscious in the family’s living room.
An inquest heard Karlton had been playing in a paddling pool with his cousins on the evening of June 29 last year, when he went to change. Whilst inside, he had placed a helium balloon in the shape of a dinosaur – which he’d been gifted day earlier at Newcastle’s travelling funfair The Hoppings – on his head.
Karlton’s mum Lisa found him unresponsive 10 minutes later, Chronicle Live reports, with a medically-trained neighbour rushing to provide help whilst paramedics were summoned to the scene. But the efforts were not enough to save the youngster, who suffered from a hypoxic brain injury which he died of in hospital six days later.