WARNING: Injecting Chicken Cubes Trend to Enlarge Buttocks Can Lead to Rectal Diseases, Hypertension

Are you serious about injecting that kitchen bouillon, to enlarge your buttocks? Think again

Firing bouillon or chicken stock cubes into one's anus to increase the size of your buttocks would lead to serious illnesses, a doctor in Ghana said.

The practice, which is said to have been increasingly widespread, is not safe, a doctor asserted in a tweet.

"Stop pumping seasoning cubes into your anus to widen your buttocks. It is not safe," Dr. Silas Agbesi from the Ho Teaching Hospital, the main health facility in the Volta Region in Ghana.

"Women inject this (sic) cubes with the hope that the salt and oil content will expand their tissues behind making them appear larger and rounder. It could lead to hypertension," Agbesi added.

Chicken Cubes in the Butt Will Lead to Hypertension

He added in a separate tweet that crushing the seasoning cubes that are high in salt content and injecting It in the anus, "the lining of the anus would absorb a huge portion of that salt in the bloodstream.

And this excessive amount of salt will lead to hypertension, he said.

Agbesi said he posted the warning as some of his patients were committing a huge mistake similarly doing the unhealthy practice.

The practice is widespread, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where large buttocks are considered more attractive and desirable. People would mix the stock cubes with water and inject it as a suppository to form an enema. Women believe their muscles in their buttocks will absorb the salt and oil content in the cubes, thereby making them larger.

How the Bouillon in the Butt is Made and Injected

These cubes, used as a seasoning for broths and meat-based meals, contain monosodium glutamate, chili, pepper, onion, sugar, corn starch, palm oil, caramel color, lecithin, cloves, and of course, salt. These stock cubes are crushed and liquefied and the resulting thick paste is placed in a syringe. Women would have the mixture into their bodies by anal injection. They believe lower body tissues would swell, giving them larger buttocks

A Vice documentary investigated this practice and talked to women in Congo about following this trend.

Reports on Infection and Death Due to the Practice

Some women said in the documentary that they were unaware of the health risks involved, while others said they knew about it but went on with it regardless of the risks. Afrik News said in a report that this practice has led to people getting infections and, eventually succumbing to complications.

Apart from Agbesi, many doctors have advised women against doing the practice to prevent rectal diseases. But these women have largely ignored these doctors' warnings and continue the act. Several awareness campaigns have been launched in Africa to discourage the practice but the unfortunate societal urge to look better having an enlarged butt is just too enormous to ignore.

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