"It's saved! Never need to go to the hospital again"? Be wary of false health preservation shifting to short video platforms
Half a month to talk about commentator Zhao Chenyang
"I have found a cure for the new crown. Four heads of garlic, plus a bottle of white vinegar, soak for a week, and the new crown pneumonia can be cured. If you learn, please give me a little red heart."
"My dad has kidney stones. I saw a video saying that there is no need to go to the hospital if there are stones in the body. If you add walnuts with sesame oil and sugar, steam and drink for half a month, the stones in the body can be removed."
"My dad’s migraine, there is a video saying that tree roots can be cured, so he really bought dried tree roots and boiled water, but it was useless! Later, I went to the hospital to check the migraine caused by a subcutaneous cyst. The cyst was removed. That’s good. At that time, the cyst was already swollen and a pimple. Now I’m still afraid, what if the treatment time is delayed?"
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Nowadays, young people often see in their parents’ circle of friends that “it’s saved! Never need to go to the hospital again”, “shocked! This kind of food can cause cancer if you eat too much,” “You absolutely don’t know, it’s a long life”... …The content of the repost on the subject is not only without medical basis, but also causing misunderstandings to the audience. What's more, it misses the best treatment time or is poisoned by "recipe" food.
If we say that this type of forwarding was mainly web pages in the past, this type of content now mostly exists in the form of short videos, involving major short video platforms, and some short videos have been "upgraded" to be equipped with health products, health equipment and other commodity content.
On these short video platforms, how did the above-mentioned content that only spreads false medical and health information for eyeballs, traffic, and sales?
Why are some of them recommended to the homepage?
Faced with these problems, short video platforms need to pay attention to strengthen review and supervision.
Not only that, short video platforms should formulate reasonable standards for non-authoritative and non-professional video content involving medical information, and should have high standards and strict controls when it comes to professional content such as medical and health, and effectively protect the rights of audiences.
Due to the lack of scientific literacy and the focus on health topics, the elderly often become the main force in the spread of medical and health rumors among family relatives and friends.
For this, children should take responsibility, care more about their parents, promptly remind them when they find problems, find an authoritative source to dispel rumors for their parents, be patient, and don't give up because their parents don't believe them.