{"id":314534,"date":"2025-08-03T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314534\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:50:17","slug":"adult-pacifiers-trending-in-china-for-stress-relief-and-sleep-doctors-warn-of-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314534\/","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.europesays.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":314535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[24869,34537,114643,26071,1395,16536,10552,18646,8557,91808,105,114645,218,89990,114639,1586,23620,114641,114640,71802,5549,114642,246,234,22468,182,4920,114644,1200,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-buyer","9":"tag-challenge","10":"tag-chewing","11":"tag-childhood","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese","14":"tag-comfort","15":"tag-dentist","16":"tag-doctor","17":"tag-hazard","18":"tag-health","19":"tag-mad","20":"tag-mental-health","21":"tag-mouth","22":"tag-pacifier","23":"tag-pain","24":"tag-platform","25":"tag-psychological","26":"tag-quit","27":"tag-relief","28":"tag-safety","29":"tag-sellers","30":"tag-shopping","31":"tag-sleep","32":"tag-smoking","33":"tag-social-media","34":"tag-stress","35":"tag-sucking","36":"tag-tax","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964923977312288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}