![]() ![]() And how could we forget the pink-sauce debacle. Earlier this year, the organization cautioned against a TikTok hack meant to extend the life of a ripe avocado, saying it could make people sick. A 15-year-old reportedly died after participating in the challenge, and others were hospitalized. Two years ago, the FDA issued an official warning against the “Benadryl Challenge,” which reportedly involved people taking dozens of Benadryl pills (or other variations of diphenhydramine). This isn’t the first time the FDA has had to weigh in on questionable TikTok food trends - it’s not even the first one involving cold medicine. In fact, in one of the NyQuil chicken videos that survived on Twitter, the person cooking the nightmare dish says, “Sometimes the steam really makes you sleepy.” The statement concluded with a warning, “Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing.” These appear to show a man boiling chicken in NyQuil on the stove, something that the FDA warns is incredibly dangerous, as it can make the medicine “much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways.” Not only that, but just “inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body” and could hurt your lungs. Most of the NyQuil chicken videos appear to have been taken down, but stitches and duets have remained on the social-media platform. ![]() “The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing - and it is.” Add this to the list of reasons I don’t trust TikTok cooking hacks. “A recent social media video challenge encourages people to cook chicken in NyQuil (acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and doxylamine) or another similar OTC cough and cold medication, presumably to eat,” the FDA wrote in a lengthy statement. Even though the FDA really, really wants you to. Many of the videos have since been removed, but for those who had the misfortune of stumbling on the trend, it’s impossible to forget. The FDA released an official warning last week after videos of people cooking chicken drenched in cold medicine - nicknamed “sleepy chicken” - gained traction on TikTok. Surprise: It’s actually not a good idea to cook chicken in NyQuil. Yeah, let's leave this one to the professionals and only take the recommended NyQuil dose.Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photos: Getty Images If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it’d be as if you're actually consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil." ![]() "When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, you boil off the water and alcohol in it,leaving the chicken saturated with a super concentrated amount of drugs in the meat. If that doesn't sound disastrous enough, Hartman warns of yet another risk to consuming "Sleepy Chicken." ![]() Hartman adds "the effects can be quite bad depending on how much you inhale." Inhaled, these medicines also enter your bloodstream really quickly and are not going past your liver for detoxification." If common sense doesn't tell you not to eat this, here's what a doctor has to say:Īccording to Aaron Hartman, a physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University who spoke to Mic about the viral trend, "By cooking a medicine with multiple drugs in it on a stove top, you’ve aerosolized it and are most likely inhaling it. This video is enough to churn stomachs, yet somehow the "NyQuil Chicken" trend has found itself thriving in TikTok's algorithm. ![]()
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