TikTok trends range from the funny, to the dumb, to the downright terrible. I’m not entirely sure which category the TikTok ice cube challenge falls under, but it’s certainly something.
The challenge in question involves sticking an ice cube in your vagina to make your vagina tighter (side note: that’s not a thing), treats warts, and even treat depression and anxiety. If there’s a reason none of that seems medically legit, that’s because it definitely isn’t.
Seriously, the only one that could even have any sort of argument to back it up is the warts one, because doctors do indeed freeze warts off of people. Please not though, that I said the word ‘doctors,’ and that they don’t do it with an ice cube.
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There are two major reasons why it’s a bad idea.
First: Water is a different PH to your vagina. You don’t want to be messing with your vagina’s PH, because thats a one way trip to infection town.
Second: have you ever chewed on an ice cube straight out of the freezer and had it stick to your mouth? And it’s a whole thing waiting for the ice cube to melt, and usually there’s blood involved? That. But in your vagina.
Thankfully TikTok isn’t just full of people trying these challenges out, there are also actual medical professionals on there. Enter Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, who’s made a TikTok in response urging people to stop for two seconds, hold on to their ice cubes, and think for a bit.
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♬ original sound – drjenniferlincolnShe also acknowledges that this trend is definitely coming out of the fact that we’re all bored and stuck at home under quarantine, which as somebody going a bit nuts under quarantine, I appreciate.
There are better uses for you ice cubes, people. As Dr. Lincoln suggested, put them in a daiquiri, not a vagina.
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