Deadly Internet challenge: Americans are asked not to cook meat with drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns consumers against using NyQuil in food preparation, reports New York Post.

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Social media users are making videos of meat being coated while cooking with NyQuil, an over-the-counter medicine used to treat flu, cold and allergy symptoms. This new challenge is called "NyQuil Chicken Challenge".

Not surprisingly, the FDA warned that this could have very dangerous consequences - not only when ingested, but also in the process of cooking.

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“Boiling a medicine can make it much more concentrated and change its properties,” the FDA explained in the warning, adding that even inhaling the fumes of the medicine during preparation can put a lot of the medicine into your body.

“It may also damage your lungs,” the warning says. “Simply put: someone could take dangerously large amounts of cough and cold medicine without even realizing it.”

It's unclear why the FDA is only now issuing a warning about the problem, as the videos have been circulating online for months. In the clips, people cook chicken breast and pour a large amount of a liquid medicine that contains acetaminophen, dextromethorphan HBr, and doxylamine succinate into a pan of meat.

The FDA noted that the social media trend relied on "peer pressure" with "online video clips of people abusing over-the-counter drugs and encouraging viewers to do the same."

An overdose of NyQuil can cause symptoms such as seizures, severe dizziness, liver and breathing problems, just to name a few, which can be potentially fatal.

Dr. Aaron Hartman, physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, explained why this trend is dangerous and can be fatal.

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“If you eat this kind of meat, it will be like if you actually drank a quarter to a half bottle of NyQuil,” he said.

“When you cook a cough medicine like NyQuil in a skillet, you cook off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super-concentrated amount of medicine in the meat, which is very dangerous,” he added.

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