The dangers of drooling, fashionable elastic mass in boys

The social networking rabies product is made with homemade ingredients and can cause serious skin problems.
The "slime" has become in recent years one of the favorite toys of children and adults around the world. It is an elastic mbad sold in different versions but can also be easily manufactured, one of the factors contributing to its popularity. The object is characterized by its easy-to-handle texture, it has gained followers through its spread in social networks like YouTube and Instagram. However, there is one aspect that influencers do not show: this product can cause more headaches than pleasure and be harmful to health.

"The slimy mbad is a very viscous and colorful mbad and from videos on YoTube, they explain to the boys how to make them.They do them in a traditional way and are part of the game: prepare them and play with the hands, pbad on the face or different parts of the body, "says dermatologist Andrea Santos Muñoz (MN 222.773).

In this context, the professional describes: "This product became fashionable a few years ago, I think it started in the US In my office, I started to see a lot of dermatitis on the hands and on the faces of the patients, not only young children but also teenagers, and when I asked questions, I realized that everyone had a common factor: they were playing with the slime . "

He also warned: "The problem is that the ingredients they use in the home preparation of the slime contain shaving cream, detergent and boric acid.These things are extremely irritating.That is why the frequent handling of this mbad, because the boys have it in their backpacks and while they listen to the clbad or are in front of a computer, they go to birthdays or even when they show up at the doctor's office, they have this mbad in their hands This causes irritation. "

"I started to see dermatitis, but not only hands, which looked very injured, but also places where they place mucus, such as the face," concluded the specialist. telephone dialogue with Rouge.

Add attention. "In general, these irritations occur with this homemade slime, and not with the one bought, because it seems that fashion and part of the game consist in that the boys prepare it with their parents." I explained to mothers with whom I spoke that it was absurd to give the boy something that contained an irritating ingredient, to bring him to the face.In most cases that I attended, they prepare it to the drool and add tempera, dye and even the detergent to wash clothes.All these substances, when you touch them constantly, generate a reaction that sensitizes the skin.This way, in the future, the skin and the immune cells, having the memory of what irritated them, tomorrow, anything that has a similar component irritates and causes eczema or dermatitis ", Santos explained. Muñoz

"The problem is the irritating factor in the mud, so I recommend avoiding it, and as soon as the child has an injury where it has been in contact, it is necessary to consult the dermatologist because The same thing can go from applying moisturizing creams to restoring what is called the "skin barrier" which constitutes the last layer of the skin (the injured skin) until it reaches the end of its life. to the application of local corticosteroids.The specialist must give the right cream for each wound site and the age of the patient, "he concluded.

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