The popular latest craze amongst kids is being panned by many adults, while others (myself included) just don’t get the trend (really, they are just elastics). While not getting it is a bit different than banning them, as many community areas and schools are doing, in an attempt to avoid issues with trading gone wrong.
Yet, others are saying that the trend is outright bad or a kid’s health. These critics have brought the panning of the bracelets to a whole new level, and others may be starting to agree with them.
Dr. Gregory Simonian, chief of endovascular surgery and director of the Heart Vascular Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, told me that his daughter also wears Silly Bandz, and that Dr. Manny could be on to something.
“Whether it’s tight bracelets or a ring on your finger, anything that is constricting could cause vascular insufficiency—meaning the blood flow is being altered by some external force. In this case, it’s the new, hip rubber bracelets,” Simonian said.
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Are the bracelets dangerous? Or maybe, these new concerns about them are just another factor of us adults just not getting it.
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