Get the kids off the screen! What schoolchildren do to get sick: 9 ways and their consequences

While adults are terrified of getting sick, especially during a pandemic, their schoolchildren stubbornly drive queries into a search engine such as: how to get sick for a week, forum, reviews. What for? It’s easy to understand. Someone has a test ahead, difficulties at school, or just really wants to attract the attention of parents. So the guys go online for advice on how to get sick – preferably for a few days.

The instructions for such truants are written by the same careless children. They can tell how to get sick for a week if immunity is strong, but they do not understand that their experiments with health may turn into resuscitation or infertility in the future.

We have collected the most popular online schoolchildren’s advice on how to get sick – to induce vomiting, diarrhea or high fever. And we explain why you shouldn’t repeat these dangerous methods.

Bad advice # 1: induce vomiting

“In short, you need to circle in one place and wave your arms, I did it myself. And then drink two cups of coffee. Then you go out in public, to your parents, that is, and you run to the toilet, ”schoolgirl Nastya shares her“ wisdom ”on one of the forums.

Aftermath

The method will not work for everyone: children with a weak vestibular apparatus, who are traditionally rocked in transport and on carousels, will vomit. In itself, such a long whirling is already a serious effect on the central nervous system, and if you also slam two whole cups of coffee (this drink irritates the digestive tract), then it really can. Moreover, this dizziness and spasms will accompany a person all day, so it is unlikely that you will be able to enjoy the sick leave.

Bad advice # 2: induce a temperature

To do this, it is advised to ingest one popular bactericidal agent inside – literally a drop. “The main thing is not to overdo it!” – members of the forum warn. They assure that a high temperature rises, with which no one will send to school.

Aftermath

“Experienced” experimenters complain about the disgusting taste of this drug. But this is nonsense compared to the fact that, in fact, they are advising to drink poison. Bactericidal agents are intended for external use, not for oral administration.

Nausea and vomiting will seem like flowers compared to toxic liver damage. The solution burns the throat and esophagus, for this reason the temperature rises – a reaction to damage to internal organs. For some, one or two drops are enough to ring out in intensive care.

“My mother, when she was still in school, told me that a guy in her class had done such a thing. Then there was horror: they put me in the hospital, almost died, ”one of the members of the forum tries to warn his peers.

Bad advice # 3: catch a cold

“Last night I put my feet under cold water (not just under cold, under ice) and walked in bass. I also put milk in the freezer and after half an hour drank in one gulp without jelling my throat, then breathed through the window, ”the schoolgirl advises, whom, apparently, the method helped her skip Russian lessons many times – we kept the author’s spelling and punctuation.

Aftermath

All methods with hypothermia, when children sit in an ice bath or walk in wet clothes in the cold, can cause a temperature if a person has weak immunity. But this is the case when in the future the simulation may come back to haunt. Especially girls. You can get pelvic inflammatory disease. Adhesions are a consequence of prolonged inflammation, and this is already the path to infertility.

Bad advice # 4: get a sore throat

Many children complain that they walk in the cold without a jacket, sit on the balcony after a shower, and cannot get sick. These guys fill up the search engines with the query “how to get sick if the immune system is strong.”

“You buy mint candies and breathe through your mouth into the window in winter. 10 minutes of continuous breathing can raise the temperature to 38,2, tested. Of the minuses – the throat hurts. Of the advantages – however, for 2 weeks ARI “, – writes another” expert “.

Aftermath

Inflammation of the larynx seems to be the safest disease for children. And it is far more noble to have a red throat than monstrous diarrhea. But the infection can spread to other parts of the respiratory system. For example, laryngitis can cause suppurative processes such as phlegoma of the neck. And this is already a dangerous disease that can end in death.

Bad advice # 5: burn your throat

The most desperate do not get a red throat with the help of cold, but use … heated oil. Well this is how one should be afraid to go to school in order to mock oneself so!

“It hurts a little, but a thermal burn cannot be distinguished from a sore throat, and the temperature is there, and the throat is red,” advise schoolchildren who are ready to go all out for the sake of truancy.

Aftermath

The burn of the larynx will not go away in a day, the recovery will be very long. Chasing a red throat can lead to many burn blisters. This means that it will be impossible to eat and drink normally, the work of internal organs is disrupted, if the oil burns not only the throat, but also the esophagus and stomach, then long-term treatment will be required. The doctor, of course, will understand that the stomach hurts not from gastritis.  

Bad advice # 6: cause diarrhea

It must be admitted that schoolchildren are not at risk all the same. Most rely on good old fashioned diarrhea. Here, simulators have a whole cache of advice on how to make even neighbors know about your illness.

Children choose recipes not according to ingredients, but focusing on the time spent in the toilet. Calculated, apparently empirically:

• Kefir + milk + sunflower oil + dried apricots + nuts + cocoa powder = 5 hours on the toilet.

• Laxative – 7 hours on the toilet.

Aftermath

The effect may not be quick, and mom will send the simulator to school, where the climax will take place … No, the teachers, since such a thing, of course, will be allowed to go home, but how do you get when you can’t leave the toilet, it’s a big question. And yet such a “cleansing” of the body leads to dehydration.

Bad advice number 7: cause a low temperature

The temperature in the region of 37,5 is advised to be called with a pencil lead. True, they say that it will not last long if this very lead is eaten.

Aftermath

First of all, such a trick cannot be hidden: the throat and tongue will be black. But this is not dangerous here, but poisoning. Intoxication is manifested by severe headache, vomiting, diarrhea. The lead can simply lead to mechanical trauma to the esophagus or stomach, and this will require very long and expensive treatment. In addition, there is a possibility that you will never be completely healthy after this. 

Bad advice number 8: undermine immunity

“Regular soda and simple mouthwash. We rinse the specials. throat for 1-3 minutes with the mixture, then, after putting the soda in the freezer for 8-10 minutes, take 4-5 sips on the balcony or in the yard – a red throat is guaranteed. “

Aftermath

From this method, you are unlikely to get sick immediately and for a week. But it is possible to undermine immunity. Low temperatures and extreme cooling provoke the body to mobilize the immune system. To put it simply, the body spends a lot of energy to cope with the experiments of the host. And then these forces may not be enough when we really need it. During the cold season and during a pandemic, it is especially important to maintain immunity, otherwise you can catch viruses all the time. There are infections that do not go away without a trace.

Bad advice # 9: lose your voice

To do this, it is advised to speak in a whisper for twenty minutes, and do not drink anything.

Aftermath

Even screaming is not as bad for the vocal cords as whispering. The method described by the schoolchildren leads to dehydration of the ligaments, to the point that abrasions and creases appear on them. Therefore, patients with angina are advised not to strain their voice, but to communicate with notes, for example. The consequences of such injuries can be irreversible, up to and including loss of voice forever.

So the method will work – the voice will disappear if you do not drink and speak in a whisper for a long time. But it may not appear if you overdo it.

And finally, on the same forums where advice on “how to get sick for a week in one evening” is proliferating, there are many comments from the guys who are against such a dangerous simulation.

• If you need it for school, then I do not know what kind of monsters you have parents who JUST SO will not be able to let you go. Parents are people too, they will understand you, zayush.

• You have to go to school, otherwise you will clean the toilets.

• Do you want to skip 4 hours of training so much that you are ready to get the chance of chronic diseases?

• Hypothermia – cardiac arrest – heart attack – death.

What do these comments have in common? And the fact that guys who are not looking for ways to skip school are at least much more literate than their peers. As a maximum, they will grow up as people who will be able to solve problems in the future at work, in the family, and will not hide from them behind a certificate.