To gather as many views and appreciation as possible, several young people were filmed on Tiktok while eating tulips. Doctors point out that these can challenge severe reactions.
Went viral on Tiktok after eating photo tulips: video capture tiktok
The trend has gone viral on Tiktok, people ignoring the risks they could have tulips on health.
To gather as many views and appreciation as possible, several young people were filmed on Tiktok while eating tulips. Doctors point out that these can challenge severe reactions.
Maria, one of the young people who took part in Trend and the one who gathered over one million views, later acknowledged that she had “poisoning from tulips”.
“I walk all day red on the face. My ear hurts, my neck. I can’t swallow anything, after eating the tulip I couldn’t eat anything for two days. (…) The tulip was really sweet, tasty. I can eat a hundred, I have no problem. I didn’t know that they were so harmful“, Maria said.
Doctors are drawing an alarm about the less ordinary trend.
“In the case of tulips we discuss a low toxicity. Toxicity is the greater, as the tulips bulbs are consumed. But in the leaves and flowers there can be substances that are not necessarily toxic to the whole body, but they have a degree of toxicity. This means that they can cause certain irritations in the mucosa of the digestive tract, oral mucosa or at the level of the esophageal mucosa or gastricE ”, explained the toxicologist Radu Tincu, the head of the toxicology discipline at the” Carol Davila “University of Medicine.
Can appear “sensations of itching at the level of the oral cavity, nausea or vomiting, abdominal cramps”, Which are caused precisely by the toxic substances in tulips.
It is not the first dangerous trend that circulated on Tiktok. “Paracetamol Challenge” or “Superman Challenge” made their teenagers present themselves at the hospital after seriously injured as a result of these challenges.
