Anti-vaxxers who got Covid-19 shots take bath in borax to ‘detox’ body
- Carrie Madej, an osteopathic doctor, claimed in a video that people can ‘detox’ their body of the vaccine in a bath made with the cleaning solution
- Borax, which can also be used to kill insects, is ‘a potentially caustic and harmful substance’
Anti-vaxxers on social media have been recommending all manner of sketchy and debunked rituals to like-minded followers who begrudgingly followed vaccine mandates but now regret it, NBC News reported on Friday.
The report spotlighted TikTok user Carrie Madej, who shared the ingredients of a bath she said would “detox the vaxx.” Madej is an osteopathic doctor with more than 43,000 Instagram followers.
“Her solution? A bath with baking soda for ‘radiation’ and epsom salt for ‘poisons,’” tweeted NBC reporter Ben Collins. “Then, she says, add borax to clean out ‘nanotechnologies.’ (Don’t do this.)”
Madej’s TikTok video has scooped up hundreds of thousands of views.
“Detox remedies and regimens have been staples of the anti-vaccine movement for years,” Collins reported. “Long before Covid-19, anti-vaccine influencers and alternative health entrepreneurs promoted unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments they claimed would rid children of the alleged toxins that lingered after routine childhood immunisation.”