Love Bites and Five Other Surprising Teen Trends

Teenagers can be so creative, always thinking up new ideas and pushing the boundaries. While some of these ideas can be interesting or even exceptional, you’ll find others to be extremely dangerous and can sometimes put their lives at risk. Parents can ensure the safety of their teens by and keeping current with the latest dangerous trends.

1. Love Bites- With the slew of popular vampire movies hitting the big screen, teens are taking love bites a bit too far. In order to show their commitment and love for another individual, some teens are literally taking a bite out of each other and drawing blood. This modern day hickey trend is extremely unsafe and carries the risks of hepatitis, infection and HIV at the site of the bite, and parents should caution their kids to avoid the behavior and serious liabilities associated with it.

2. Eyeball and Rectum Chugging-Teens and alcohol already make for a dangerous combination, when the alcohol is being ingested through mouth. The latest trend in teen alcohol-consumption, however, involves a different kind of oral conduit. Eyeball and rectum chugging create a heightened sense of intoxication and due to fact that it bypasses the stomach, accelerates the absorption process, and ultimately speeds up the high.

Similar to an enema, rectum chugging can cause serious damage to the body, severe alcohol poisoning and even fatalities. Eyeballing is an equally out of control trend that incorporates a shot of hard alcohol into the eye socket. While it can give an instant high, it can also cause significant irritation, blindness, swelling and a scratched cornea.

3. Condom Snorting-Yes it’s as gross as it sounds, and tremendously dangerous. This bizarre trend involves teens sucking a condom up their nose and pulling it out through their mouths. This activity is an obvious choking hazard, and as the condom could get stuck and block the passage of air, and the teens ability to breathe.

4. Salt and Ice-Salt and ice are two simple goods found in every household. Unfortunately, when brought together, they can create a less than safe combination. Salt and ice challenges typically involve teens pouring salt into their hands and adding ice cubes. Closing their hand into a fist or having a friend press the mixture into their palm, the challenge is used to determine who has the higher pain tolerance. This game is extremely dangerous and has been shown to give teens second and third degree burns.

5. The Choking Game-The choking game is a lethal form of play among teens. It involves the use of restraints or, sometimes, a friend who contains the teen being choked. The player who is being choked has a ligature such as a belt or rope tied around their neck, which cuts off the flow of blood to the brain.

The high is experienced when the restraint has been released, and the blood flows back to the brain, however, the lack of oxygen has the potential to cause death of brain cells. What’s even more frightening is, due to the fact there is no specific time to release the individual being choked, there is a huge risk of hanging and dying, at which point those involved choking the individual could face charges for manslaughter or possibly murder.

6.Bath Salts-The term “bath salts” can be a little misleading, but don’t let that fool you. Bath salts is in fact an informal name for a family of designer, man-made drugs, which have effects similar to amphetamine and cocaine. They can be snorted, inhaled or injected. Accessing them is easy, as they are sold legally in gas stations and head shops across the country, in colorful teen-friendly packages and contain the synthetic stimulants mephredone, MDPV and methylone.Once ingested the drug can induce hallucinations, paranoia and even panic attacks. Bath salts have been reported to cause violent behavior, heart attack, kidney failure, liver failure, suicide and an increased tolerance for pain.

Teens that get into these kinds of dangerous activities often do so with no regard for safety or consequence. However, what seems like all fun and games can lead down a road with dire repercussions, even potentially to death or criminal charges and jail time. For these reasons it’s important that you talk to your teen about risky behavior and making good choices.

Nadine Swayne forwards this advice on dangerous and unhealthy teen trends. Teens are apt to make questionable decisions that may lead to prosecutable behavior. Should your teen become involved in something criminal, legal counsel such as that available through http://www.orlandocriminalteam.com/ may provide relief and give some perspective on how best to proceed.

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