NyQuil chicken

The FDA is imploring you not to partake in the latest apparent TikTok trend: cooking chicken in NyQuil.

Food and Drug Administration](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/08/31/fda-authorizes-ba-4-ba-5-reformulated-covid-booster-shot/7933943001/) is begging you to reconsider. The NyQuil chicken challenge isn't the first dangerous trend to emerge on social media. "These kids are being influenced at a level that's beyond their conscious awareness." It could also hurt your lungs." "But it could also be very unsafe. Videos of people making NyQuil chicken have been widely mocked online, with NyQuil trending No.

This specific video challenge encourages people to cook chicken in over-the-counter cough and cold medications like NyQuil (containing acetaminophen, ...

Sit down with your children and discuss the dangers of misusing drugs and how social media trends can lead to real, sometimes irreversible, damage. An earlier TikTok challenge urged people to take large doses of the allergy medicine diphenhydramine (sold over the counter in many products, including some under the brand name Benadryl) to try to induce hallucinations. If you believe your child has taken too much medication and is hallucinating, can’t be awakened, has had or is having a seizure, has trouble breathing, has collapsed, or is showing other signs of drug misuse, call 911 to get immediate medical attention. Even if the chicken isn't consumed, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter the body. While cooking chicken in this manner may sound silly and harmless as long as it's not eaten, that is not the case. These medicines are readily available in many homes and can pose significant risks if they’re misused or abused, making these social media challenges even more risky.

The latest social media challenge encourages people to boil raw chicken in NyQuil (or similar over the counter cold medications) to create 'sleepy chicken.'

The “sleepy chicken” challenge is not the first TikTok dare to encourage exploitation of non-prescription medications. “Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways,” wrote the FDA. [blackout challenge](https://globalnews.ca/news/8833359/mother-sues-tiktok-10-year-old-daughter-dies-blackout-challenge/),” and the “ [Momo challenge](https://globalnews.ca/news/5019894/guelph-momo-challenge/)” have resulted in the injury and even death of several children. “Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. [issued a warning](https://globalnews.ca/news/8266779/emsb-warns-parents-tiktok-devious-licks-challenge/) to parents about the ‘devious licks’ challenge in which students were encouraged to participate in a task that could be “derogatory or hurtful to others or themselves (e.g., vandalizing school property, stealing, assaulting school staff members or peers, exposing themselves).” [warned](https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/recipe-danger-social-media-challenges-involving-medicines) that the [challenge ](https://globalnews.ca/tag/tiktok-challenge/)in which people boil chicken in the non-prescription drug can cause harm and even death.

One of the weirdest TikTok recipes might also be dangerous, as U.S. health authorities warn that you really shouldn't cook your chicken in NyQuil.

Instead, you’ll get TikTok’s standard page about potentially harmful “challenges and warnings” on the platform. Other stitches from the same video show those pliers sitting on the stove are not just for show. Many others have stitched it to mock the concoction online. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actually put out a warning about it on Tuesday. “Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapours while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs."

"Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," the FDA said in a recent update.

In 2020, the Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," the FDA said. "The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing — and it is. In the video, which went viral but appears to have been taken down, the user flips the meat with a flat iron hair straightener. "It could also hurt your lungs. The tag "#nyquilchicken" appears to be blocked on TikTok, and searching for it on the platform prompts a warning that "some online challenges can be dangerous, disturbing, or even fabricated."

Also known as "sleepy chicken" online, the since-deleted recipe shows a man prepping the raw chicken with "four thirds" of the cold and flu medicine. Yep, you ...

“Put simply: Someone could take a dangerously high amount of the cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.” that's a whole medication, it's time to get serious." “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.” The FDA has issued a warning, as part of a broader update, Who in the right mind... Also known as "sleepy chicken" online, the since-deleted recipe shows a man prepping the raw chicken with "four thirds" of the cold and flu medicine.

Twitter is abuzz about the Food and Drug Administration's latest warning about cooking with cold medicine. Cooking with meds like NyQuil is a bad idea.

Another [Tweeted](https://twitter.com/MorganGoldMusic/status/1572228644654792705), "if you choose to eat NyQuil marinated chicken, you deserve whatever the consequences are..." [memes](https://twitter.com/HeathenOnEarth_/status/1572278827338047488) saying things like: "We're not gonna make it are we? But it could also be very unsafe," the While it's not clear how much of a "trend" Nyquil chicken is or ever was, the FDA'S warning only served to reheat the whole cooking calamity. [TikTok](https://www.tag24.com/internet/tiktok) user frying chicken breasts in the bright green cough syrup went viral when it was posted last year and has since been removed, according to [multiple media outlets](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cooking-chicken-nyquil-dangerous-fda-says-video-tiktok-rcna48608). [Food ](https://www.tag24.com/lifestyle/food)and Drug Administration (FDA) says absolutely not, and Twitter is abuzz about the agency's latest warning about a supposed TikTok trend.