“What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.”
That’s the apparently apparent caution that Procter and Gamble launched on their social outlets this month following a rise of teenagers who have actually ended up in the medical facility after taking in the laundry cleaning agent packages.
It appears teenagers will do anything for a number of likes and a couple of hundred views on their social feeds, even if it suggests putting their life in jeopardy.
Last year the pattern making its rounds on the web was the “blue whale challenge,” which put teenagers through 15 days of deadly difficulties and ended with numerous teenagers taking their own lives at the end of the “game.”
This season, it’s a much quicker dosage of risk as teenagers throughout the country continue to participate in exactly what’s called the “Tide Pod challenge.” It’s precisely what you believe it is. Teens record themselves biting into the harmful liquid laundry cleaning agent packages, or preparing them in frying pans prior to chewing them up and gushing them from their mouths.
Y’ all ever simply get the desire to consume a tide pod? pic.twitter.com/9vy49VdG7U
— infant doll (@xangirI) December 31, 2017
Health authorities have actually alerted that consuming laundry cleaning agent can trigger seizures, lung edema, breathing arrest, coma as well as death. Tide has actually even begun asking individuals not to consume their items.
What should Tide PODs be utilized for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.
Eating a Tide POD is a BAD CONCEPT, and we asked our good friend @robgronkowski to assistance discuss. pic.twitter.com/0JnFdhnsWZ
— Tide (@tide) January 12, 2018
Butthe Tide Pod Challenge raves on.
You Tube spokesperson Jessica Mason launched a declaration on Wednesday guaranteeing that the social platform would “work to quickly remove flagged videos that violate our policies.”
“YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit content that’s intended to encourage dangerous activities that have an inherent risk of physical harm.”
This weekend, a Utah State University trainee was supposedly hurried to the medical facility on Saturday after swallowing a Tide cleaning agent pod. The condition of the unknown trainee stays unidentified.
“Even if meant as a joke. Safety is no laughing matter,” a P&G representative informed CBS News.
Accordingto the Association of Poison Control Centers, 25% of the 220 teenagers who were exposed to Tide Pods in 2015 consumed them deliberately, and half of 37 cases in 2018 to date were deliberate, theWashingtonPost reports
There is no info yet as to whether any of the cases this year have actually led to death. Nonetheless, consuming liquid cleaning agent can, and does lead to such.
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I cannot think it’s a sentence that even requires writing, however Y’ all, Tide Pods are for something, and something just: doing laundry. Do not consume these suckers, they are fatal.
If required, authorities advise that you contact the poison-control helpline instantly at 800-222-1222
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