The powder is found in laundry detergents, insecticides and cleaning supplies.
Tiktok is no exception to the dangerous viral trend. In another disturbing trend, some influencers on social media sites are reportedly encouraging their followers to drink borax as a way to “cure inflammation.” new york postinformed of.
Specifically, borax is a salt typically seen in a white, powdery substance also known as sodium borate. The powder is a combination of boron, sodium, oxygen and hydrogen, and is found in laundry detergents, insecticides and cleaning supplies. Boric acid, a specific formulation of boron, is also used to kill ants and cockroaches. It has been banned from food products in the United States.
However, some people have erroneously claimed that adding a pinch of borax to smoothies or coffee can reduce symptoms of arthritis, lupus, or other health problems. Several TikTokers with hundreds of thousands of followers have advocated the practice in videos that have since been removed.
I am sorry to inform you that tiktok girls are drinking borax pic.twitter.com/K70969dCHO
– Drew Kauffman 🟢 (@drewkauffman) 17 July 2023
The TikTok trend of consuming borax for “its boron content” proves that even if we had unlimited resources to educate ourselves online, people would still be stupid. Well they’re all adults pic.twitter.com/KKj9YoPDqw
— Mallory (@theyrepassedout) 17 July 2023
Health professionals and medical experts are concerned about this trend and are trying to quash this bizarre practice, which can cause great harm to humans.
”But borax is actually a toxic compound and should never be eaten. Ingestion of borax has recently been popularized on TikTok as a way to treat inflammation, but … there is no evidence that ingesting borax has any benefit to human health,” Johnson-Arbor, toxicology physician and co-medical director at the National Capital Poison Center, told Yahoo in the Know.
They said that consuming borax can irritate the stomach and potentially cause blue-green vomiting or diarrhea. Over time, this can lead to anemia and seizures.
A chemist working on a doctorate in organic chemistry with an audience of over 1.8 million also raised concerns and called the trend “frankly alarming”.
according to the National Institutes of Health, Borax is known to be dangerous if swallowed. It can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, reddening of the skin, rash, excitement, convulsions, depression, and vascular collapse. In severe cases of poisoning, borax can cause kidney damage, seizures, and death.
“Extremely high doses of boron can be fatal; For example, 15,000 to 20,000 mg can cause death in adults,” the NIH said.
US Borax also warned people Regarding its product intake, the company states that it “does not offer any products that we approve nor intend for use as a dietary ingredient, pharmaceutical and/or over-the-counter active ingredient, nor as a food additive or direct additive to foods. Our … products are labeled as ‘not for internal use’ and thus are not intended for internal related applications nor for use as an active ingredient.”
Earlier in April, a 13-year-old boy from Ohio in the US died after overdosing on an over-the-counter drug. To install viral TikTok trend. The boy was attempting the ‘Benadryl Challenge’, which encouraged spectators to take large doses of the antihistamine to produce hallucinations.
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