What has teen dd been taking?

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Mid teen dd went to the park with a couple of friends after school yesterday. Came home at 7.30 as agreed.

She was definitely slightly off kilter. There was a sweetish smell that I am pretty sure was vape - have suspected vaping before. I have no experience of vape but not sure if vape would also account for her being a little unsteady on her feet. Speech a bit bright and forced and a couple of word stumbles. Nothing extreme in her behaviours just not quite normal.

We ate dinner and watched a tv show and she talked etc throughout etc but wasn’t quite her usual self. No smell of alcohol, eyes not red, pupils looked ok.

Then in the night she was sick twice, apologies if TMI but the vomit didn’t smell of alcohol.

I asked her what she had been up to at the park and if she’d been vaping or drunk / taken anything when she was sick and said it was important to know as she was being sick - she claimed just sick.

Anyone got any ideas? Can vaping affect you as I have described? Wondered about nitrous oxide but no experience and I know the affects don’t last so would that still make her a bit off by the time she was home? Any other ideas??

Meant to say I know the smell of weed / cannabis and the sweet smell wasn’t that- more a bit fruity sweet

It won’t be nos, as you’ve said it’s very short acting. Won’t be vape either, it’s just nicotine, no longer acting than smoking a cigarette which obviously doesn’t make people exhibit these behaviours/symptoms.

Could possibly be Poppers - they smell sickly sweet (when fresh from the bottle, after that smell like stinky stale socks), but again quite short acting - though can leave a headache, nausea and dizziness for a while afterwards.

The rest of it is anyones guess, you can’t rule cannabis out based on the smell, there’s lots of ways to take it; gummies, brownies, etc. I’d think cannabis would be the best outcome out of this situation - the other options are pretty much all class A’s; MDMA, Cocaine, Mkat, Ketamine, etc.

One other thing to exclude would be diabetes - sweet fruity smell + vomiting + altered cognition/speech - could be the first symptoms of a type 1 diabetes diagnosis. I think I would keep a close eye on her and have a good chat with her today and explain that if she maintains she definitely hasn’t take anything then you’ll need to take her to A&E to rule out diabetes/ketoacidosis.

Of she'd been drinking alcopops you probably wouldn't smell any alcohol. Over doing it with vape or shisha could we'll make her a bit lightheaded or sick though but really it could be anything plus vape, cannabis then sprayed with impulse to mask it. Impossible to know if she doesn't tell you

You can buy flavoured cannabis vapes so they smell like mango or something else sweet disgusting the smell.

Thanks for the replies.

Hadn’t thought about diabetes although smell was on clothes / hair so I think that may be less likely.

I am planning to have a talk with her today, we usually have a good and pretty open relationship so maybe she’ll fess up. My mis-spent youth does make me pretty suspicious and also don’t want to jump down her throat with my possible imaginings!

When my son was smoking weed I never smelt it on him. It was only on checking his room, because I felt something wasn’t right, that I discovered a lighter and cigarette papers.