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A FIVE-year-old boy rescued from a squalid house is believed to be Victoria's youngest chromer.The boy was discovered covered in paint by shocked child protection workers.
The case has appalled medical experts who say the combination of neglect and inhalant abuse was a lethal cocktail.
A Melbourne Children's Court was told the child's drug-addicted mother had collapsed, leaving him unsupervised.
The boy had paint on his hands and face and was living in a bedroom littered with dog faeces.

The boy's mother, believed to be in her late 20s, cried as the court was told of how she forced her son to live.
The court heard the boy told a Department of Human Services worker making a routine phone check that his mother was lying on the floor.
When the boy passed the phone to his mother, she was incoherent from the effect of inhaling paint fumes.
The court heard child protection workers who rushed to the house found it in a disgusting state.
They found:
PAINT cans scattered throughout the house and a strong smell of paint in the boy's bedroom and bathroom.
DOG faeces on the floor of the boy's bedroom, spare bedroom and hall.
NEARLY a week's worth of dirty dishes.
The house also was without hot water and light globes. The mother said she and her son showered at a friend's house.
When asked why the boy had paint on his face, his mother said he had been helping her paint the house. But an inspection found no fresh paint on the walls.
The court also heard the boy, who suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), had been prescribed medicine, but his mother had been taking it.
Chroming involves inhaling fumes from a spray-can and can be deadly.
The fumes slow the activity of the brain and central nervous system and can damage organs, including the brain, liver, kidneys and lungs.
The magistrate restricted the mother's access to her son to three times a week, in a shopping centre or park, while she seeks help for her problem.
She is not allowed to take her son home during those periods until the house is made habitable.
The magistrate warned about the dangers of chroming.
"I can't stress how seriously I feel about it," he said. "It causes serious brain damage quickly."
Australian Childhood Foundation chief executive officer Joe Tucci said chroming would have a devastating effect on the development of a five-year-old boy.
Mr Tucci, a social worker and psychologist, said the impact of chroming on a child would be faster and the effect stronger than on an adult.
He said a child watching a parent suffer the effects of chroming would feel fear, terror and anxiety.
"If the parent has fallen asleep or isn't responding, they'd look around to see what's caused them to be like that," he said. "They'd be curious and would be inclined to do what mum or dad's just done.
"If it's already set up by someone else, such as a parent, it's well within the possibility that a five-year-old would pick it up.
"They wouldn't understand the danger. The impact could be potentially disastrous."
The latest figures show ambulance paramedics are being called to treat a chromer nearly every day.
The Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre figures show non-fatal chroming incidents increased from four a month in October 1998 to 25 a month at the same time last year.
The worst-affected areas are the city and the municipalities of Greater Dandenong and Moreland.
At least two teenagers have died from solvent abuse in Melbourne in the past seven years.
Open Family youth worker Les Twentyman said chroming was prevalent among people with low self-esteem and broken families.
"The effects are ugly," he said. "They lose all sense of reality and think they are Superman when they do it.
"They are often the ones that get up on top of trains to surf."
Mr Twentyman called on spray paint stockists to monitor who they sold to and restrict sales.