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Pimple-squeezing toys promoted on TikTok threaten children and their mothers…
Pimple-squeezing toys promoted on TikTok threaten children and their mothers with a rare mental illness – pathomymia. This is when a person picks his skin for no reason due to insanity. Consequences: infections, inflammation, headaches.
The toy is presented as an “anti-stress”. Videos of her are blowing up shorts, reels and, of course, TikTok. There, the little ones are obsessed with chewing gum, which can be used to squeeze out pimples. The most popular model is the face of a child.
However, several dermatologists told Mash that the trend is dangerous. It influences fragile minds, which first of all begin to look for pimples on themselves – and squeeze them. It comes to the point where they pick at an empty place, spoil the skin, introduce infections there, and so on, just to somehow scratch something. And there are already plenty of such cases. Even mothers come to hospitals.
Patients develop pathomimia – the person seems to have acne everywhere, and he literally tears himself apart. In this case, dermatologists refer you to a psychiatrist, who prescribes pills and long-term treatment. A long time – because it’s very easy to get hooked on a kind of self-harm.
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The toy is presented as an “anti-stress”. Videos of her are blowing up shorts, reels and, of course, TikTok. There, the little ones are obsessed with chewing gum, which can be used to squeeze out pimples. The most popular model is the face of a child.
However, several dermatologists told Mash that the trend is dangerous. It influences fragile minds, which first of all begin to look for pimples on themselves – and squeeze them. It comes to the point where they pick at an empty place, spoil the skin, introduce infections there, and so on, just to somehow scratch something. And there are already plenty of such cases. Even mothers come to hospitals.
Patients develop pathomimia – the person seems to have acne everywhere, and he literally tears himself apart. In this case, dermatologists refer you to a psychiatrist, who prescribes pills and long-term treatment. A long time – because it’s very easy to get hooked on a kind of self-harm.
