This Mom Made A Joke On TikTok About Her Babies Ingesting Purple Sharpies And People Started Panicking
Christel Holland is a mom and she’s really no stranger to going viral, given that several of the videos she has made on TikTok have really taken off.
Quite a few of them already boast a few hundred thousand views, but one video she made really has exploded, and people began panicking over it.
In Christel’s most controversial clip, she shared a video of her 3-year-old daughter when she was just an infant.
In the clip, she’s crying, and the whole inside of her mouth is a shocking purple color.
“Throwback to when my daughter ate a purple Sharpie when she was a little baby and it stained her mouth for like a week,” Christel said.
“And then my son did it too.”
She put the caption, “Only moms know what this actually is,” on her video…
…But some people had no idea what she was talking about.
TikTok; pictured above is a close up of her daughter’s purple mouth
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It wasn’t just moms online that became alarmed by Christel’s post…people without children were upset too, thinking she had let her children eat Sharpies on her watch.
It’s easy to see why people freaked out, given the fact that she said they ate them.
Users on TikTok reported her to Child Protective Services and slammed her for being a terrible mom.
Well, Christel’s kids did not eat purple Sharpies, and this is the reason why their mouths ended up being one insane color.
TikTok; pictured above is a video still of her daughter crying
If a baby comes down with oral thrush, a medication used to clear it up ends up making the insides of the baby’s mouth turn this crazy color.
Christel did end up clarifying, commenting on her video, “Before anyone freaks out, they both got thrush when they were babies and the purple is actually a medication to get rid of it!!”
The backlash she received didn’t stop there, and she ended up making a few other videos explaining that she is not doing anything wrong with her children.
TikTok; pictured above Christel addresses the backlash
“I don’t neglect my kids. That’s actually not a Sharpie, that is medicine for something called thrush, which is a yeast infection,” Christel went on to say in one of her videos.
“Something about that purple stuff makes the thrush go away.”
In case you were wondering about Sharpies being safe to eat over all of this, they’re not, but they are also not toxic.
Sharpie does say on their website, “While Sharpie markers are AP-certified non-toxic, we do not recommend using them on areas of items that may come in contact with food or the mouth.”
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