The social network Tik Tok has already become the biggest addiction of young people around the world. They share stories, games, dances and create other entertaining videos that go viral in seconds.
Some of the challenges seen are cause for concern. remember the trend to inhale a deodorant? So it is! Where that came from, there's more: the newest parental affliction is the Q-Tip smoking challenge that has already been accepted by many young people.
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The “game” in question is quite simple. Just burn the plastic stick and then inhale the smoke. There are some videos on the social network in which teenagers act out parts of blockbusters or series in which cigarettes are somehow present. For this simulation, they end up using the cotton swab to represent tobacco.
What are the health damages of the Tik Tok challenge?
It became necessary to explain that, when they burn, cotton and plastic end up generating a toxic substance in the form of smoke. Inhalation of this can bring serious risks to people's health, as well as any other inhalation of different types of smoke resulting from the burning of some material.
According to experts on the subject, smoking cotton swabs is a very harmful action, as it can trigger serious respiratory diseases, such as asthma and bronchitis. If not them, some even more serious ones, such as byssinosis, an occupational disease that afflicts employeess of the industry of cotton.
This disease is contracted through forced inhalation of cotton, flax and hemp. Although considered rare, it tends to appear in people who work directly with unprocessed cotton. The symptoms are quite similar to those of asthma, that is, there is the gripat thechest, wheezing and the cough. In more serious cases, patients may experience flu-like symptoms. See some of them:
- Muscle and joint pain;
- Dry cough;
- Fever;
- Fatigue;
- Tremors.
They tend to go away when you are no longer exposed to dust, but the lung can have permanent sequelae if you continue to be exposed to the problem. Smoking can increase the possibility of getting bysinosis. A history of asthma and allergies increase this risk. Forget the “challenge” and don't smoke cotton swabs.
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