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In a gross attempt to achieve a certain goal, teens are resorting to boiling tampons. If you thought the Tide Pod challenge was a bad idea, this is going to make you even more uncomfortable. Like, really uncomfortable.
Squeamish? Maybe consider leaving the internet for the rest of the day. After learning about this, we all considered it.
Some kids will do anything to get a little buzz. Teenage brains aren’t quite formed yet, after all, and sometimes they make questionable decisions for the sake of being ‘cool’ or different.
A kid in Wisconsin last year had to get airlifted to the hospital after he tried to vape vodka from his electronic smoking device. It was 8:45 in the morning… and he was only 14. Is it normal for a 14-year-old to have a vape?!
Kids looking for a quick-acting drink will sometime boof beer or liquor, and it isn’t uncommon for drugs to be in the mix. If you don’t know what boofing is, consider yourself lucky – it involves adding substances to your body from the wrong end.
Now, kids in Indonesia have found a new way to get a little high… and yes, it involves feminine sanitary products.
Sometimes of the used variety.
Because it’s not really a product you ingest, manufacturers of sanitary products don’t really have to list all of the ingredients. There are plenty of chemicals in cheap or mass-produced products that keep them smelling a certain way, absorbing liquids in a specific manner, etc.
According to the National Narcotics Agency in Indonesia, they believe that it’s the chlorine that is used to sanitize menstrual products getting kids high. Some reports have referred to it as them being “drunk”, but it isn’t an intoxication like alcohol.
Instead, teens report feeling like they are ‘flying’, and seeing hallucinations.
Feminine products are expensive, ask any woman who has to buy them regularly. And teens don’t often get a lot of extra pocket money. Combine that fact with the incredibly strict drug laws that Indonesia has, and you have a recipe for horror.
Teens have apparently been digging menstrual products out of the trash to boil and consume the resulting liquid, whether or not they have been used. If you thought our disgust was just us ovary-reacting, you’re clearly wrong. We’re usually ones to go with the flow, but this needs to stop… period.
According to police in Indonesia, there is technically no law against this, and there have been reports of this happening as early as 2016. Does anyone else want to know what the first kid who did this was thinking?!
