
Negative g force skin#
This craze can be seen on YouTube of 'How to fake a piercing' with some videos with over 50k views.Īnother craze is known as the 'deodorant challenge' where teens have been spraying deodorant cans against their skin for as long as possible.īut their actions risked serious burns and life-long scars, which happened to Ellie Prescott.Mum Jamie Prescott said her daughter Ellie, a pupil in Year 10, may yet require a skin graft due to the painful burns on her arm. Surgeons had to remove four inches of the boy's bowel to get them out. The potentially deadly game, designed to mimic the sensation of piercings, uses bearings costing as little as £2.99.

This is not the first time a youngster has become badly injured after following an online craze on YouTube.įreddie Webster, 12, swallowed four 3mm magnetic ball bearings after putting them in his mouth and trying to hold them in place with another on his cheek. "It is impossible for parents to pay attention to every craze as they spread through YouTube, and since it seems that self-regulation by the platform is failing, it is surely time for the government to step in." Speaking about children following craze's shared widely across the internet, professor of social psychology, Sonia Livingstone, said: "I can only say that the calls for YouTube to proactively take down such videos in the interests of child safety have been mounting and it is amazing that they remain up. “I feel so thankful for the amazing nursing care he has received from the first response to the great team at Queen’s Medical Centre – they have been amazing." Miss Hollingworth told Lincolnshire Live: “Doctors were really struggling to treat Tyler when we first arrived because of the injuries that he had gotten, but their work has been amazing since. His mum Dawn Hollingworth was alerted and rushed him to hospital as his face became gradually more and more swollen to the point where he could not open his eyes.ĭoctors said that the teen was at risk of suffering a stroke because of the pressure and speed he had experienced. This is thought to be caused as blood begins to rush to the head, and is laden over the lower eyelid. Sufferers are also known to suffer from only being able to see red in the aftermath of a negative g-force experience.
Negative g force free#
I recommend drawing a few free body diagrams to clear up the physical situation. This is however a cluttered way of thinking about the situation. Therefore a negative g-force is identical to a positive g-force in the opposite direction. It is usually only experienced by pilots, and can cause a hemorrhagic stroke or retinal damage. 'g-force' (or acceleration) is actually a vector quantity.

The condition known as 'redout' occurs when the human body endures negative g-force, causing blood to flow from the lower parts of the body to the head.
