Borax is the new Tide Pods and poison control experts are facepalming

Enlarge / A box of borax—not for eating. Getty | Lauren A. Little

In the latest health fad to alarm and exasperate medical experts, people on TikTok have cheerily “hopped on the borax train” and are drinking and soaking in the toxic cleaning product based on false claims that it can reduce inflammation, treat arthritis, and “detoxify” the body.

The troubling trend harkens back to both the Tide Pod Challenge trend of 2018, in which teens chomped down on detergent packets on camera, and the infamous “Church of Bleach,” a faux religious organization that sold industrial beach as a “miracle”

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