Cooking chicken in NyQuil is severely dangerous, warns US FDA after viral TikTok video

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has issued a warning that consuming chicken cooked in cold and flu medicine, NyQuil, is dangerous. The warning from the Food and Drug Administration is part of a large-scale notice about the different food challenges that get popular on social media like TikTok. Cooking chicken in NyQuil became particularly famous after a viral video a year ago, according to reports.

The video shows the TikTok user frying two chicken breasts in the cold and flu medicine. They also appear to be using hair straighteners to flip the meat. The video is now taken down.

However, the video does not show that it is a challenge, and it remains unclarified whether people have tried to cook chicken in NyQuil.


FAQs:

What did the Food and Drug Administration say about cooking chicken in NyQuil?

FDA said that the challenge is very unappealing and distasteful. Moreover, this is more unsafe than anything else. Heating a medicine can lead to several changes in its concentration level and its properties which is dangerous for people.

The FDA continued to say that even if people are not consuming the chicken cooked in medicine, it is also dangerous to inhale that large amount of drugs in their vapor form. It can directly affect your lungs. In other words, one way or another, people cooking chicken in NyQuil can take up the medicine unknowingly.

The FDA pleads with parents to keep over-the-counter medicine out of reach for children. They want people to make their kids aware of what to consume and how and its dangers if consumed unnecessarily. People should warn their children to understand any challenge on social media before taking part in any in hopes of getting viral.

How did TikTok react to this video?

Neither TikTok nor Procter and Gamble (P&G) has not responded to this video publicly on September 20.

The hashtag nyquilchicken is, however, banned from TikTok. If anyone tries to search for this hashtag, it results in a warning that some challenges on TikTok are dangerous, disturbing, and even fabricated.

Other disturbing trends of TikTok:

One more dangerous trend that went viral on TikTok was people consuming unhealthy amounts of allergy medicine, diphenhydramine. This compound is a part of the over-the-counter medicine Benadryl. In 2020, FDA had to issue a warning that consuming this medicine in higher doses wi result in severe cardiac disease, seizures, and eventually death.

In 2018, consumer advocates came forward to warn people not to eat laundry detergent pods. It was part of the Tide Pod challenge. The Consumer Product Safety Commission mentioned that almost ten people have died due to active participation in this ridiculous challenge.