Whitey Ford
09-22-2022, 04:24 AM
Cooking chicken in NyQuil is 'very unsafe,' FDA warns after #sleepychicken TikToks surface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GbCsjfWQs
If you were considering cooking chicken in NyQuil, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is begging you to reconsider.
In response to viral videos of people filming themselves sauteing chicken in a pan with the over-the-counter cold medicine, the FDA issued a statement calling the practice not just gross, but also dangerous.
As of Tuesday, the #sleepychicken tag has garnered over 1.3 million videos on TikTok, with many users reacting to the cooking practice, and a safety warning appears when users search the tag on the app. Videos of people making NyQuil chicken have been widely mocked online, with NyQuil trending No. 1 on Twitter Tuesday following the FDA's statement.
"The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing — and it is," reads a Sept. 15 post on the FDA's website. "But it could also be very unsafe. Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2022/09/20/do-not-cook-chicken-nyquil-fda-warns-tiktok-videos/8066816001/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GbCsjfWQs
If you were considering cooking chicken in NyQuil, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is begging you to reconsider.
In response to viral videos of people filming themselves sauteing chicken in a pan with the over-the-counter cold medicine, the FDA issued a statement calling the practice not just gross, but also dangerous.
As of Tuesday, the #sleepychicken tag has garnered over 1.3 million videos on TikTok, with many users reacting to the cooking practice, and a safety warning appears when users search the tag on the app. Videos of people making NyQuil chicken have been widely mocked online, with NyQuil trending No. 1 on Twitter Tuesday following the FDA's statement.
"The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing — and it is," reads a Sept. 15 post on the FDA's website. "But it could also be very unsafe. Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2022/09/20/do-not-cook-chicken-nyquil-fda-warns-tiktok-videos/8066816001/