Posted on 08/23/2012 1:22:13 PM PDT by Morgana
A new teen fad called "the salt and ice challenge" is drawing crowds on social networking sites and YouTube. But like other teen "challenges," it has proven to be dangerous. And health-care experts are telling parents to talk to their kids about the risks.
In Pittsburgh, a 12-year-old boy will spend the summer recovering as a result of having a large cross burned into his back by his twin brother and a pal as part of this newest challenge, according to the Post-Gazette. He ended up in the West Penn Burn Center for treatment.
For the challenge, tweens and teens put salt on their skin and then press ice into it to see who can tolerate the pain the longest. The longer the ice is pressed into the salt, the more serious the injury. CBS Pittsburgh noted that when salt comes in contact with ice, the freezing point of the ice is lowered as the salt dissolves. And that's a process that borrows energy from what is close by. In the case of this teen stunt, what is nearby is human flesh, so the energy is pulled from skin and "you get a burn similar to frostbite."
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Sounds like those idiots who used to rub erasers and make burns on their arms when I was growing up.
Obviously too much time on their hands.
Cool!
It’s stupid, not dangerous. Dangerous implies some level of permanent harm, not recoverable harm.
When I first read it, I assumed that salt and water were euphemisms for some drug.
If the leftist freaks weren’t so hell-bent on GIVING everyone FREE health care, this would be one of those free DIY tips for eradicating pre-cancerous skin lesions.
You just can’t fix stupid.
I thought it was a drug too until I read it. Still it appears dangerous. That child looks like he has a third degree burn.
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Salt brings down the temp of ice to below freezing,I knew that,Duhhhhhhhh
Sounds like they just finished the icepick in the ear challenge.
I thought it was a margarita drinking contest :-)
So, teens are doing this. If I do it, will it make me younger? Excuse me while I get salt and ice as I have plenty.
He’ll recover, which is my point. There was a time when young boys would do stupid things routinely, that took a couple of weeks to recover from, and nobody thought twice about it.
Sounds like a version of sticking your tongue on to a flagpole when it’s -30 F out. Muy stupido.
Do it longer, and press harder. It’ll hurt eventually, and soon after that it starts to really damage your skin. The important part is to let the ice get a good solid connection, no layer of water between ice and skin, you want it to freeze the skin.
It used to be putting arms side by side, and placing a freshly lit cigarette between them, to see which guy removed his arm first.
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