Latest Teen Fad Could be Fatal

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For decades, teenagers have been known to pursue one fad after another. When I was teen, it was in the days when the Beatles became popular along with a genre of music known as surfer music. Millions of American teens got a Beatles’ or surfer hair-cut. Then came the flower-power hippie movement and once again, tens of thousands of teens grew their hair long, wore psychedelic colored clothes, listened to loud rock music and tried doing drugs in order to tune out of society.

Not all fads have been harmless as countless teens died or were severely injured from the rampant drugs use and free sex of the time. Only a few years ago, a number of teens joined a fad of doing really dumb and dangerous things like jumping off their roof onto an empty shed or onto a table. They would break chairs over each other and a host of other dumb things. Many teens got broke bones, got cuts and bruises and some even died, but it seemed the deadlier the stunt the more some wanted to try it.

At one time, there was a fad of sniffing spray paint in order to get a high off of the aerosol in the paint. They would spray the paint into a plastic bag and then hold the bag to their nose and sniff. I remember arresting a teen girl for trying to steal several cans of spray paint. She was so high and so out of it that she had no idea who she was, where she was or what she was doing. We called the authorities and a week later they told us that the girl had been admitted to the hospital with seizures and died. They said the paint and aerosol fumes had caused severe brain damage, but that didn’t stop others from doing the same thing.

Kids have snorted bath beads, spray deodorant and a host of other things but the latest snorting fad could be riskier than most teens realize. Just a few months ago, one of the big things to do was swallow Tide Pods, sending many to the hospital and a few to the morgue.

Believe it or not, they are snorting condoms.

Yes, condoms and it’s as dangerous as it is gross and obscene.

They snort an opened condom in one nostril and then either try to pull it out the other nostril or out of the mouths.

Bruce Y. Lee, associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote about the danger of this new fad:

“[Anything that goes up one’s nose] can damage the sensitive inner lining of your nose, cause an allergic reaction, or result in an infection.”

“The condom could easily get stuck in your nose or your throat, blocking your breathing or causing you to choke.”

Swallowing the condom can also be dangerous and there have been reports of swallowed condoms causing pneumonia and appendicitis.

Lee questions in the reason behind snorting condoms:

“Even if you manage to successfully pull the condom out through your mouth, inhaling a condom up your nose would be very uncomfortable and potentially quite painful. Would it really be worth all that just to get more likes and views?”

Yet, generations of experience tell us that no matter how many warnings of the dangers, it’s not going to stop many teens from risking their lives just to get attention from others in person or on social media. If you’re a parent of a teen, pay attention to what they are doing and what they are posting on social media. It just might save your child’s life.

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