Recently, the news that "a girl imitated a short video to make popcorn with cans and died of severe burns" has made countless people feel sorry. In the past few days, the reporter found in the interview that short video social platforms such as Tik Tok are full of difficult movements and "big stomach king" challenges in order to attract eyeballs and attract traffic, and the novel content has attracted many young children and even parents to follow suit. In this regard, experts said that blindly imitating these video contents has great health and safety hazards and may even endanger life.
Video chaos
Difficult movements and "big stomach king" are very eye-catching
Parents carry their children to do flip and suspension activities, which may cause subluxation of their radial capitulum; On the other hand, children’s skin abrasions, soft tissue contusions and even fractures are caused by parents’ abandonment. Recently, doctors often encounter similar cases in the outpatient and emergency departments of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics. Surprisingly, some children were injured, which was actually caused by parents imitating difficult movements in short videos.
Parents and children stand face to face, and the children bend forward and extend their hands backward from their legs. Parents hold their children’s hands and turn them over 360 degrees, then hold them back in their arms … … The reporter found that in Tik Tok and other platforms, there are many short parent-child videos that are difficult to flip like this. Although some parents will put a cushion under their children in advance, the whole action still looks very thrilling. Earlier, it was reported that a foreign father imitated the difficult action of carrying his child to somersault in the vibrato video, and accidentally injured his two-year-old daughter, causing the child’s spinal cord damage.
In the short video, many people incarnate as "Spider-Man", supporting the walls on both sides with their limbs and crawling up and down without any protective measures. In a vibrato video, a four-or five-year-old boy climbed nearly 2 meters with his bare hands at the entrance of the living room.
In addition to dangerous actions, there is also a short video of the "big stomach king" challenge, which is highly sought after by the public. In this kind of video, the protagonist usually attracts attention by eating, and sometimes he will cooperate with the merchants to promise rewards. It is similar to "Eating a big hamburger weighing 4 kg in 20 minutes is free of charge" and "Challenge 30 sets of fat cows to win 2000 yuan in 30 minutes".
A delicious food named "Langweixian" is very popular in Tik Tok from the media. He has more than 30 million fans, most of whom are young people, including many primary and secondary school students. "Langweixian" not only has an amazing appetite, but also eats very fast. In his top video, it took him only 10 seconds to finish a 1.25-liter Coca-Cola. The comments are full of "awesome" and "awesome", and some young people also say "I can do this", and some people are eager to inquire about the restaurant address.
So, are those "big eaters" in Tik Tok true or false? Some professionals have analyzed that some big stomach kings can really eat, but after eating, they often "digest" food by vomiting. Some people will take advantage of people’s visual errors, and it seems that there are many dishes in front of them, but in fact the bowls are very small, or some videos are simply edited after being shot several times.
Doctor’s point of view
Dangerous actions can cause permanent injury.
"Some actions in the short video are very dangerous!" Ren Gang, an attending physician in orthopedics at the Children’s Hospital affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, said that once problems occur, soft tissue contusion, ligament rupture, tear and fracture are easy to occur; Seriously, it may also cause spinal fracture and even spinal cord injury. For example, some parents carry their children to do forward somersaults and back somersaults. If they accidentally get rid of them, their children will land on their heads first, and it is easy to have cervical dislocation or even fracture.
"The spinal cord is in the middle of the vertebral canal, and the cervical vertebra protects the spinal cord like a tube-like sleeve." Ren Gang said, "When the vertebral body is misaligned or excessively bent, it will cause damage to the spinal cord. Among them, slight spinal cord injury will cause spinal cord concussion, and patients may have temporary paralysis; Serious damage to the spinal cord can be irreversible and permanent, resulting in paralysis and even life-threatening.
In addition, when people imitate dangerous actions such as somersault and rotation, if they accidentally land their heads, it is likely to cause intracranial hemorrhage, which will be life-threatening.
Ren Gang said that teenagers and children are more vulnerable because they have not formed a complete awareness of safety protection. When they do some actions, they can’t judge what potential dangers need to be guarded against. He reminded parents that they must strengthen their safety awareness and educate their children to identify dangers, and never imitate dangerous actions popular in short videos.
Will the extreme diet challenge do harm to human health? The answer is yes, and the first ones are acute gastroenteritis and indigestion. Ning Huijuan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology of the First Children’s Institute, said that after food enters the stomach, it is fully mixed with gastric juice, and protein will be partially decomposed by pepsin in the stomach. If food enters the stomach too quickly and too much, there will be indigestion caused by relatively insufficient gastric juice. In addition, gastric juice contains high concentration of gastric acid, which can kill the bacteria that enter the stomach with food and water. If you eat too fast, the bacteria cannot be completely killed, and there will be symptoms of acute gastroenteritis such as fever, vomiting and diarrhea, and even lead to gastric bleeding.
Moreover, overeating, especially eating too much greasy food at one time, can stimulate excessive secretion of pancreatic juice, make the pancreas digest itself, and cause the attack of acute pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis may cause severe abdominal pain, and severe pancreatitis may also cause shock and even multiple organ failure, with a mortality rate as high as 5%. "It is particularly important to note that the development of gastric smooth muscle in children is not perfect. Eating a lot will suddenly overfill the stomach, cause gastric dilatation, continue to develop the disease, and also cause gastric ulcer and gastric perforation." Ning Huijuan said.
Lawyer reminds
Minors who are injured after imitation are responsible for uploading and broadcasting.
Talking about the legal issues of dangerous behaviors in short video platforms such as Tik Tok, Zhang Guang, a consultant from deheng law offices, said that at present, minors can browse related video content as visitors on some short video platforms without registering their identity information. Because minors are immature and lack the ability of self-discrimination, they are likely to imitate and learn when watching videos. Then, once they do harm to their health, both video uploaders and Internet platforms may have to bear certain legal responsibilities.
First of all, the producers who upload short videos such as dangerous actions and extreme challenges are very likely to cause injuries to themselves and others, and even be suspected of spreading criminal methods, especially the viewers of some videos are minors. According to Article 29 of the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, no one may instigate, coerce or induce minors to commit the bad behaviors stipulated in this law, or provide conditions for minors to commit bad behaviors. Therefore, the producers of short videos should bear legal responsibility for the behaviors and contents in the videos.
The Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency also stipulates that no unit or individual may provide contents and information that endanger the physical and mental health of minors by means of communication or computer network. Therefore, if the Internet platform neglects to review the short video content, it is very likely that there will be legal risks for the third party of the platform.
Zhang Guang suggested that the producers of relevant videos should strictly grasp the content of the videos. When dangerous behaviors are involved, they must make risk warnings in the videos, such as "Dangerous behaviors, please don’t imitate". Internet platforms should classify and manage videos. For example, when uploading videos, actors can click to select videos of dangerous behaviors and videos requiring risk warning, and when playing videos, they should automatically "barrage" risk warning. (Reporter Liu Huan)
