FDA warns against dangerous TikTok challenge of cooking chicken with cold medicine

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Some time ago a

video went viral in which a user appeared cooking a chicken breast in a medicine called

, which is used to treat colds and flu.

The video seems to have already disappeared from the network but now the United States Food and Drug Administration (

) has issued a warning.

Thus, it warns consumers that

, according to media such as NBC.

"The challenge [of cooking meat in such a drug] sounds

, and it is. But it could also be very

. Boiling a drug can make it much more concentrated and change its properties," says the FDA.

According to the FDA statement, even if people do not eat the meat after doing the experiment, it can be dangerous, since they would inhale the vapors of the drug.

"It could damage your lungs. In other words, the person could take dangerously high amounts of this cough and cold medicine without even realizing it," they say.

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