The mother of a 10-year-old girl who poured nail polish remover in her eyes says she can’t wait for a blanket ban on social media for under-16s to come into effect.Rebecca Soal said she was horrified to discover her 10-year-old daughter, Phoebe, had wiped the solvent across her lips before putting several drops in each eye after seeing an influencer ‘hack’ on social media.”This stupid video said it’s a good alternative to eye drops,” Rebecca, from Caerphilly, Wales, said.”She went into the bathroom, grabbed my nail varnish remover, tapped it on a cotton bud and wiped it all over her lips.”Then she dropped [some] drops in each eye.”

The stay-at-home mum revealed that she only became aware that Phoebe had done so after smelling nail varnish remover while taking her younger daughter upstairs to bed.”I got that gut feeling, I went to my daughter, and it clicked. It was frightening,” the mum said. “Her lips and eyes were red.”Rebecca went on to explain that it took a while for Phoebe to admit that she’d used the nail polish remover after seeing videos online, adding: “They use water in the videos to gain likes, they’re joking, but kids take it literally.”We’ve seen a lot of similar videos and it’s absolutely disgusting.”