On this platform, users are getting younger and younger than the recommended age is 13 years old. Dangerous challenges are on the increase.
After the “Autism Challenge” or the “Benadryl Challenge”, which consists of ingesting capsules of the over-the-counter drug, parents are worried about a new challenge on the TikTok platform. piercings using magnetic beads on the skin, a dangerous practice that sent a teenage girl to hospital as she had to undergo emergency surgery.
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The 13-year-old girl is said to have felt severe pain and vomiting after trying to recreate a piercing with metal balls placed on either side of her tongue. “The pains got worse so I took her to Whiston Hospital. They thought it might have been her appendix at first.”, confides Elizabeth Faye, the mother, to Liverpool Echo. “Then they ruled that out and thought maybe it was gastroenteritis until she started throwing up black stuff. They did a scan and found 10 of the bearings. ball. “
Indeed, the girl swallowed the magnetic balls which were found in her appendix and her intestine. “They had to remove part of his intestine and sew it up. There was one stuck in his appendix, so they had to remove it.”, she says.
Another dangerous challenge
In total, doctors removed 15 magnetic beads from the teenager’s body. “Apparently she watched a TikTok video where there’s a trending that all kids do by the minute. I haven’t really seen her but she told me and a lot of other kids her age about it. have seen”, confided the mother. “They put one of the beads on their tongue and one below and it looks like their tongue is pierced.”
As a reminder, magnets are very dangerous because they can be quickly swallowed. When swallowed, magnets can cause serious injury or death if swallowed, warns the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Indeed, “they can attract themselves through the walls of the intestines and cause serious injury.” Once the magnets are swallowed, victims experience abdominal pain, fever, indigestion, and vomiting.
For now, the teenager is still hospitalized but her life is no longer in danger. On May 30, another 11-year-old teenager was hospitalized after doing the same challenge.
Hoping that this drama awakens awareness in the face of these new and increasingly dangerous challenges.