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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of the danger as a video of cooking chicken using liquid cold medicine spread through social media.
According to foreign media on the 21st of local time, a video of the so-called 'Sleepy Chicken' cooking challenge in which chicken breast is mixed with 'NyQuil', a general cold medicine from the United States, was actively shared.
The challenge video contains the process of spraying or mixing a cold medicine on raw chicken breast or cooking it in a frying pan.
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▲ How to make 'Cold Chicken Chicken'
Nyqual, a cold medicine used in cooking, is an over-the-counter medicine that can be purchased without a prescription in the United States and is used to treat cold symptoms such as cough and runny nose.
The cold medicine ingredient has a sedative effect and induces sleep, so the name of the challenge was also named 'Sleepy Chicken Cooking'.
People who saw the video responded, "I don't understand why people use cold medicine even though there are good ingredients," while some expected that eating chicken mixed with cold medicine would have the same effect as taking medicine. However,
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (
FDA
) pointed out that when the drug is heated, the concentration and properties of the ingredients inside the drug can be altered, which can be harmful to the human body.
, the drug can be absorbed into the body just by inhaling the vapors generated during cooking," he warned, "which can cause lung damage.
" As a result, a large number of related videos have been removed from social media
.
In 2020, the 'Benadryl Challenge', in which adolescents overdose on antihistamines, was prevalent, and reports of hospitalizations or deaths in the emergency room were reported and the FDA warned.
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