A video of a child named Rashed suffocated from one of his classmates was recently posted on social media. He tied a rope around his neck to play the throttle challenge, which he has been promoting on social media for years.

Rashed was suffocated and would have lost his life had he not been saved at the last minute, while the experience left a wound in his neck and caused a change in his vocal cords.

The 'Throttle Challenge' game appeared in 2015 and was widely seen among adolescents in many communities following the death of a 14-year-old boy in the British city of West Midlands during the challenge.In 2016, the city itself witnessed the death of a 12-year-old The game itself is dangerous.

Videos of teenagers tying ropes around their necks for 10 minutes were also posted on YouTube to win the challenge.

But it has lost popularity among teenagers, and has disappeared completely from cyberspace, with the emergence of other types of challenge less serious, the most famous «challenge the snow», and recently the game «strangulation» reappeared through some electronic applications.

The game is extremely dangerous because it relies on preventing oxygen from reaching the brain, causing brain cells to be damaged, and thus death.

Another challenge, called the "vacuum cleaner," has been spreading over the past period, demanding that those wishing to play the game wear a garbage bag and use the vacuum to draw air from it, causing the bag to stick to the player's body, forcing him to fall and roll.

Keke's dance has caused many accidents in many countries.

Psychologists, sociologists and child rights specialists have warned against applications and websites promoting the game.

“The failure of families to monitor their children on an ongoing basis, the 24-hour Internet without censorship, and the lack of monitoring of their social media programs and applications may lead to their risk,” said Moza Al Shoumi, deputy director of the Emirates Child Protection Association. Many, as a result of playing dangerous games, could kill them. ”

The Child Protection Act prohibits caregivers from being subjected to ostracism, homelessness, neglect, abandonment of counseling, failure to carry out their affairs, non-enrollment in an educational institution, or left unattended during interruption during compulsory education.

She added that «the teenager is going to satisfy his wishes, and imitate what is happening and published in (Social Media), and the role of parents lies in tightening control and awareness».

She pointed out that the Emirates Society for the protection of the child calls on the competent authorities to ban sites that broadcast scenes «Challenge strangulation», because they pose a threat to its perpetrators and may lead to death.

Professor of Applied Sociology and Professor of Criminology at the University of Sharjah, Dr. Ahmed Falah Al-Amoush, said that the game of "strangulation challenge" is one of the phenomena that target adolescent and young students.

He explained that the game is very dangerous, and must not be tolerated with those who promote it, pointing out that the family and the media an important role in raising awareness of its risks and work to prevent its spread.

Al-Amoush added that the family should educate their children, follow them, and educate them about the dangers of dangerous games on public health, and the seriousness of organized criminal phenomena spreading on Social Media, which are used by international bodies to destroy youth and lose the value system of society.

He stressed that the game «Challenge strangulation» lead to death, because the child who wants to try the game does not realize the dangers.

He continued that «the game is aimed at young teenagers (12 to 17 years), and this stage where young people try to try everything new, because of the nature of age and psychological conditions».

He added that «the student discovers dangerous games in social networking sites, through his participation in some sites and electronic applications, and transferred to school, after he controls his mind and senses the desire to try it, either individually or collectively».

The consultant psychiatrist at Ras Al Khaimah Hospital, Dr. Talaat Matar, that the game «Challenge strangulation» lead to change the awareness of adolescents, and reduce the rate of oxygen in the body, and cause loss of consciousness, and possibly death, pointing out that it is a kind of suicide.

He explained that the game has great psychological risks to adolescents, as it leads to the loss of consciousness of the player, and give him a feeling of substance abusers, pointing out that the experience of the game of adolescents for the purpose of the challenge involves brain damage, because it gives the actor a sense of «dizziness», as a result of being strangled Thus, brain cells are exposed to sustained damage and possibly neurological disease.

Death Games

The consultant of psychiatry at Ras Al Khaimah Hospital, Dr. Talaat Matar, stressed the possibility of controlling the game of "strangulation challenge" before spreading widely, by working on two axes, the first prevent students from practicing in schools, and the second to raise awareness of families to monitor their children on a continuous basis, And warn them of the dangers of her experience, and its impact on the brain and body in general, as it may lead to brain damage and interruption of breathing for more than four minutes.

He added that the game «Challenge strangulation» speed and fashion of death games that start to appear and quickly disappear, hoping that the disappearance of the occurrence of accidents of the kind suffered by the child «Rashid».

- «Choke Challenge» game

Depend on blocking

The arrival of oxygen

To the player's brain.