Buffers with alcohol: the dangerous method of getting drunk that could cause infertility

There are tutorials on YouTube. It is also a recommended method of word of mouth. It is about "slimming", "rocks buffers" or simply "Tampodka", It's made of Soak the tampons in the vodka and introduce them into the body either rectally or badlly.

This method started in Europe as a viral challenge and was registered in Mexico in 2013, is used by young people as a means of get drunk without feeling the alcohol.

Montserrat, which is part of the 345 patients treated in 2018 for alcohol consumption via the mucosa, warned that "Tampodkas" they work just like any intoxicating drink: "The truth is that if you feel drunk, if you feel the effects of alcohol, nothing else you do not give the smell to other people," he said .

The National Director of the Center for the Integration of Young People, Ricardo Nanni, detailed as the degree of alcohol intoxication is faster through these pathways (bad and badl), because of the tissues we have.

Despite the benefits of this practice, Monserrat has confessed that it's a painful processbecause the ardor to introduce alcohol into the private parts is equivalent to that of a raspón. "Even if it hurts, after a while you do not feel pain anymore," he said.

Because of the side effects that Monserrat has witnessed in his body, such as menstrual changes and burns, after six or seven times of using "tampodka", he decided to quit smoking .

The gynecologist, Maria Teresa Solano, explained that among the most serious and most important infections caused by this method are laceration of the bad and hemorrhages, in addition to inflammatory phenomena in the area by alcohol, as it is abrasive.

"All infectious phenomena lead to pelvic inflammatory disease that can cause infertility in the future"he explained.

In 2015, in Mexico City, there were 11 cases of mucosal alcohol intoxication.. According to information from Mexican Institute of Youth (Imjuve), at least four of them were minor menwho practiced the rectal method, even, used alcohol in the eyes.

Another case is that of 2014, where three women and three men attended the Toxicological Specialties Clinic Venustiano Carranza, after suffering intense pain in the rectal area. Patients reported that buffers containing alcohol and cocaine were introduced at the same time.

Among the other serious consequences that this practice may entail is the cell death in the injured area, deep thrombosis, necrosis and sepsis.