Google users warn of words you should never search that bring up 'unpleasant results'

When it comes to search engines, it's safe to say that Google has won the game.

Whether you're researching worrying symptoms, keeping tabs on your favourite celebrities, or trying to find the answer to a question that's just too daft to ask another human, there's only one place you're heading.

I mean, we even use 'Google it' as a mic-dropping comeback in arguments - so you can thank it's creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for saving your ass when you're losing a verbal clash.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows on the world wide web, as there's some pretty weird things on there which most of us could do without seeing.

Most people accidentally stumble across this sort of stuff while they're eight pages deep in search results and thankfully, Reddit users who did exactly that had a moral compass and have warned the rest of us not to bother looking it up.

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That is, unless, you really need something new to talk to your therapist about - then be our guest.

But if you don't want to lose your appetite or develop any new irrational fears, you should avoid typing these words into Google's search bar at all costs.

Larvae

To kick things off is a pretty looking six-letter term, 'larvae'.

You can imagine some influencer calling their child that if it didn't refer to the form of an insect or animal which has left its egg but has not yet transitioned into an adult.

And if you add the word 'mouth' in front of larvae before you press enter, your really in for it.

That's because it will bring up a legion of very graphic pictures of parasites hatching inside the mouths of animals - including humans.

Mouth larvae live inside the oral cavities of their hosts and can cause a dangerous infection, known as oral myiasis, which can leave you suffering with grave damage to your gob.

Degloving

If that hasn't scared you away from typing strange words into the search engine, maybe Googling 'degloving' will.

You might be picturing someone peeling off their marigolds after cleaning a sink-full of pots, but you'd be sadly mistaken.

It is actually a term which describes a really grisly injury which results in bits of your skin and body tissue being ripped from the rest of you.

If a bit of you ever end ups detached from the muscle, tissue or bone, you will have experienced degloving.

So if you prefer getting your dose of gore from horror films instead of Google Images, don't look it up.

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Krokodil

Moving swiftly on, searching the word 'Krokodil' will certainly leave you feeling squeamish.

As you may have guessed, it means 'crocodile' in the worst way possible - and refers to a flesh eating drug which can turn patches of your body dark and scaly like a crocodile's, hence the name.

It is slang for the lethal street drug which is scientifically known as desomorphine, which is used as a cheap alternative to heroin has been said to turn users into scaly 'zombies'

Krokodil can cause severe skin damage for users such as ulcerations, infections and even gangrene - as well as the scale-like skin comparable to a crocodiles.

Fournier

Staying on the topic of nausea-inducing images of decaying flesh, you probably want to steer clear of putting the word 'Fournier' into Google too.

It's both a French surname - which Brit boxer Joe Fournier has - and the term to describe an 'acute necrotic infection' of the genitals, essentially being a kind of gangrene for your goolies.

The main symptoms of it are red, swollen or tender genitals, a temperature of at least 38°C, and generally feeling unwell, so let that paint a pretty picture in your head instead of searching one up.

The rare and life-threatening bacterial infection which destroys your soft tissue requires immediate treatment, so unless you're double-checking if you have got it or not - don't Google it.

Harlequin ichthyosis

And last but not least on the list of no-no's, is the word 'Harlequin ichthyosis'.

Although it shares some of the same name as the Joker's other half, this isn't a laughing matter.

Googling this term will bring up hundreds of results regarding a a rare skin condition which affects newborn babies.

Harlequin ichthyosis which makes them appear as though they're 'covered with thick, diamond-shaped plates that resemble fish scales', and make life very hard for the baby.

The rare genetic disorder leaves newborns with very hard, thick skin covering most of their bodies.

Topics: Google, Health, Weird, Viral, Technology

Olivia Burke

Olivia is a journalist at LADbible Group with more than five years of experience and has worked for a number of top publishers, including News UK. She also enjoys writing food reviews (as well as the eating part). She is a stereotypical reality TV addict, but still finds time for a serious documentary.

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