Why snorting condoms

Then, it was called the Condom Challenge , before the realer, bigger trend of dropping a condom full of water on your head usurped that name. A young woman named Savannah Strong seems to have sparked the blaze almost exactly five years ago, with a since deleted YouTube video. So why is this happening now?

And as sometimes happens, this particular local news stories became inflated via the infinite bellows of social media and meta-aggregation. Some of the resulting coverage managed to be useful and well-intentioned, like Dr. However, the medical warning was completely unnecessary. If you dig back into the coverage, you eventually realize that there's no actual trend underneath the stories—it's just trend pieces all the way down.

As The Washington Post reported earlier this week , the organization Enriquez works for has been using the same curriculum for years. Yet, publications from Newsweek to Fox to Yahoo called it one, pretty much just because they could find evidence of multiple teenagers snorting condoms. The condom snorting challenge is the latest in a series of dangerous viral trends that have spread online among teens.

Earlier this year, poison control centers reported a spike in incidents as the result of a dare encouraging young people to post videos of themselves biting or eating Tide Pods , which contain caustic and toxic cleaning chemicals. Dangers of "condom snorting challenge". Ashley Welch. Educators in San Antonio are now teaching parents about dangerous online trends, including the condom snorting challenge, in an effort to increase awareness about the hazards of these trends, local news outlet KABB-TV reported.

Rachael has been with Live Science since She also holds a B. Live Science. Rachael Rettner. The video has since been removed, but there are still dozens of others showing teenagers accepting the challenge. But over the past five years, U.

In , a teenager intentionally inhaled the prophylactic, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Most of the incidents involving condoms - cases, to be exact - were related to ingestion, according to the statistics.

Although it's unclear why news of the condom-snorting challenge has resurfaced, it appears to be related to the recent warnings about these types of games.

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