A post has triggered many netizens’ reactions as a youngster is at the verge of death after her mother bleaches her skin until the baby was diagnosed with chronic heart disease.
According to the lady who took the story to microblogging social media, she demanded the arrest of the mother for endangering her child’s life. She stated that the child’s mother made up a flimsy reason, claiming that she was applying cream to the child’s body to bring out the baby’s color because it was dim.
Despite the warning of different doctors against bleaching of skin, Kidney failure, Skin cancer, Skin infections, Poor wound healing, Discoloration of the skin, Stretch marks etc, some people still engage in some acts that cause these diseases.
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Exposing adults to diseases itself is so harmful and dangerous but endangering babies’ life to chronic disease out of the parents carelessness can be so disheartening.
The lady identified as @Tejumola shared different cases of parents who are unhappy because of their babies’ color.
In her words, “A woman from my former church wouldn’t touch her baby within the first few hours of life because she was convinced that he wasn’t hers. Her reason: “He’s just too black” Imagine not feeling the warmth of your mother fresh out of the womb because of this…
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She furthered, “This is a woman who is dark skinned with a husband with the same complexion. She said her first children did not come out that “black”.
She also stated that the Nigeria Healthcare system is already faulty, referenced an online doctors warnings against all those kinds of chronic diseases.
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She said, “This is why that Maria’s cream advert shouldn’t have made it to the public. This is a conversation that deserves to be had. Nigeria’s healthcare is bad enough. We are not ready for the varieties of skin cancers and the surge of CKD we are likely to see in the next few years”.
“@aproko_doctor talks about the effects of bleaching all the time. Kidney failure, Skin cancer, Skin infections, Poor wound healing, Discoloration of the skin, Stretch marks etc. Suturing a bleached skin is sight to behold, you just can’t hold it, it would keep breaking down”.
“Also, you do not want your kidneys to fail my G, everything else goes downhill from there”.
Reacting to the post, many users found the mother attitude towards her baby to be so demoralizing. Some reactions are shown below:
@JaneIrunguKE said, “How do you even think of bleaching kids💔😱”.
@azania_na said, “This is so sad and how colourism is still so prevalent in our society in 2022… I-💔”.
@AzakaRichie said, “I know I’d be flogging my patients parents if i was a pediatrician”.
@LilyNnabude said, “This kind of mentality of wanting your children to be light skinned or fair is self hate, and it’s self destructive. Imagine taking certain drugs while pregnant to make the baby come out lighter skinned. What sort of mindset is this? Your melanin is like gold! why do you hate it?”
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