Trend on Tiktok. Young people get tired of tulips
Doctors are drawing an alarm about the dangerous trend that appeared on Tiktok.
Young people do anything to attract attention and tighten as many views. Without thinking about the risks they are exposed to, they popularize the consumption of tulips, raw, but also fried.
But doctors point out that they can choose with severe reactions.
A young woman has reached over one million views, but with the price of serious health problems.
She says she has blushed all her face and has pain. He can’t eat anything for a few days and acknowledges that he didn’t think that these flowers can be so dangerous.
« (…) The tulip was really sweet, tasty. I can eat a hundred, I have no problem. I didn’t know that they were so harmful« , Maria said.
« The toxicity is the greater, the higher the tulips bulbs. But in the leaves and flowers there can be substances that are not necessarily toxic to the whole body, but they have a degree of toxicity. This means that they can produce certain irritations in the mucosa of the digestive tract, oral mucosa or at the level of the gastric mucosaE ”, explained the toxicologist Radu Tincu, the head of the toxicology discipline at the » Carol Davila « University of Medicine.
