Doctor issues urgent warning over injecting penis with hyaluronic acid after Olympics controversy

Medics have issued an urgent warning to the public about injecting hyaluronic acid into your penis.

You might not think it would be necessary to warn people about the possible health risks of injecting chemicals into their junk as the risk would be fairly self-evident, but here we are.

It's become perhaps one of the most bizarre sporting scandals after German publication Bild claimed that athletes competing at the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Norway were injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid in a bid to gain an advantage on the jump.

If you're wondering how this practice might help someone to gain an advantage in this winter Olympic sport, then you're not alone.

The theory is that by enlarging their appendage a sufficient amount, athletes would have to wear a larger size of ski suit.

By donning a slightly larger suit, they would then gain some extra lift from that garment while airborne as the suit billowed out slightly, perhaps even enough to gain them that all-important extra bit of distance.

It was claimed that athletes competing at the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Norway were injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid (Christian Bruna/VOIGT/GettyImages)

In a slightly surreal moment, the Winter Olympics have seen regulations put in place to prevent athletes from injecting their penises.

But now, a doctor has issued a warning about the medical risks of the practice, just in case the thought alone wasn't enough to make you wince.

Now to be clear, just because it's 'acid' doesn't mean that this is like highly corrosive sulphuric or hydrochloric acid.

Hyaluronic acid is a naturally-occurring molecule which maintains skin elasticity and can be injected into the soft tissues beneath the skin on the penis.

The idea is that the acid is combined with blood plasma and mimics how our bodies react to injury, so they form nerve fibres and blood vessels, sort of like hacking the body into growing.

But leading cosmetic doctor at Elite Aesthetics clinic, Dr Shirin Lakhani, has warned that while the technique may achieve the aim of enlarging the penis, it comes with health risks.

"As with fillers in other parts of the body, serious complications can arise if the filler enters a blood vessel, from infection to granulomas – small lumps under the skin," she said.

Hyaluronic acid is a naturally-occurring molecule which maintains skin elasticity and can be injected into the soft tissues beneath the skin on the penis (Getty Stock Image)

"Those offering penis fillers at a price that seems 'too good to be true' or promising results that seem unrealistic should be avoided."

Risks include erectile dysfunction, pain, inflammation, deformity, and altered sensation.

In a surreal moment, officials have introduced advanced 3D body suit measurements, making sure that there's nothing going on that there shouldn't be.

The suits even have tamper-proof microchips installed in them to make sure that no one is interfering with the suit either.

And if someone does get caught, then there's a system of red and yellow cards, with the yellow card being the first result, followed by the red if someone is caught again.

FIS Public Relations Director Bruno Sassi denied the practice, saying: "There has never been any indication, let alone proof, that any competitor has ever used hyaluronic acid injections to gain a competitive advantage."

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