A new culinary challenge on TikTok is currently controversial, and for good reason!
The challenge is to cook chicken in NyQuil syrup or any other cold or flu medication.
Yet another useless (and dangerous) challenge on TikTok: the Sleepy Chicken
For a few years now, TikTok has become the platform on which we find “challenges”, sometimes musical, sometimes funny, sometimes original… However, this sometimes leads to excesses and certain challenges turn out to be particularly dangerous.
Latest evidence, a challenge that consists of cooking chicken in cough syrup, and which has already led several teenagers to the emergency room…
No, you should not cook your chicken in syrup
Specifically, the challenge Sleepy Chicken involves cooking chicken in NyQuil, a drug developed by Vicks to relieve colds and flu. A product that contains acetaminophen,
dextromethorphan and doxylamine succinate
.
” Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the drug vapors while cooking can cause high levels of drugs to enter your body. “, indicates in particular the American agency Food and Drug Administration.
Indeed, boiling a drug can make it much more concentrated and modify its initial properties. Along with higher penetration into the body, the FDA says breathing in vapors of the drug can also damage the lungs.
This isn’t the first time the FDA has had to take up a TikTok challenge. Already in 2020, the agency had alerted the population about the Benadryl Challengewhich then consisted of swallowing a large quantity of drugs sold in self-service, then putting the “performance” online.
Source : Reuters
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