{"id":40806,"date":"2025-08-03T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:05:12","slug":"adult-pacifiers-trending-in-china-for-stress-relief-and-sleep-doctors-warn-of-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40806\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult pacifiers trending in China for stress relief and sleep; doctors warn of health risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Adult pacifiers which claim to relieve anxiety and improve sleep have become a trending product in China, sparking concerns from doctors and internet users.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some online shops claim they sell more than 2,000 such items a month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They are described as being bigger than the baby version and sell for between 10 and 500 yuan (US$1.4 and US$70), the news outlet The Cover reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Many shops say that adult pacifiers offer stress relief and help with sleep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Online shops claim the adult-sized dummies can help relieve stress and aid sleep. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8afd917b-4caa-4ba1-85a9-4fb40c466672_3b7ba88e.jpg\" title=\"Online shops claim the adult-sized dummies can help relieve stress and aid sleep. Photo: Handout\"\/>Online shops claim the adult-sized dummies can help relieve stress and aid sleep. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some say the products can also help people quit smoking and assist with proper breathing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adult pacifiers which claim to relieve anxiety and improve sleep have become a trending product in China, sparking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[20638,23514,23511,7505,891,23502,23507,23509,16140,23508,102,23516,1906,6623,23512,23503,8922,23515,23506,23505,23504,471,23510,1758,370,21187,224,6644,23513,474,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-buyer","tag-challenge","tag-chewing","tag-childhood","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-comfort","tag-dentist","tag-doctor","tag-hazard","tag-health","tag-mad","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mouth","tag-pacifier","tag-pain","tag-platform","tag-psychological","tag-quit","tag-relief","tag-safety","tag-sellers","tag-shopping","tag-sleep","tag-smoking","tag-social-media","tag-stress","tag-sucking","tag-tax","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}