Doctors have warned people to stay away from the latest trend in social networks, as it represents a danger to health.
The so-called “sleeping chicken” (or sleepy) trend urges users to prepare their own dish of chicken mixed with a cold remedy and the flu.
Users refer to the recipe as ‘chicken Nyquil’ or ‘sleeping chicken’.
The doctors have warned against boiling your chicken and any other food with a cold and flu remedy product.
Several videos on TikTok show people preparing the ‘dish’, with some they use about half a bottle of medicine to prepare it.
Although most people usually take medicine or food with supplements, this tendency causes food to soak in the solution .
In declaration Speaking to The Sun newspaper, Dr. Jeff Foster said that social networks should never be used as a source of medical information.
“It tends to bring out the worst in some cases, hence the approach Darwinist anti-vaxers who get their medical ‘research’ from sources like Facebook and Instagram,” said Foster.
“The case of the chicken Nyquil is no different. The idea of saturating any food product in a drug in the belief that it will provide some novel health benefit or cure is not only stupid, but incredibly dangerous.”
Physician and Assistant Clinical Professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Aaron Hartman, explained why the trend is dangerous.
“When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, you boil the water and alcohol, leaving the chicken saturated with a super-concentrated amount of drugs in the meat.
“If I ate one of those pieces fully cooked, it would be like consuming a quarter to a half of a bottle of NyQuil,” he told MIC.com.
Some of the online videos show people boiling chicken raw in the medicine for just five minutes before serving it ‘ready to eat’.
Dr. Hartman explained that this could actually lead lead to food poisoning, which will probably cause illness and diarrhea.
He also explained that another big risk when cooking your chicken in medicine, is the fact that you are inhaling the medicine, in addition to eat it.
“Inhaled, these medications also enter the bloodstream very quickly and bypass the liver for detoxification. The effects can be pretty bad depending on how much you inhale,” he added.
“We have drug doses for a reason . If you soak a food in it and then cook it, it is very likely that you will overdose or at least have no idea what dose you are receiving”, Foster pointed out.
“By taking more than what you should, you run the real risk of acute liver poisoning, as well as dizziness, vomiting, seizures and death.
“When you cook food, you remove the water and any other liquid whatever is in there that gives an idea of the dose, so you only get a super concentrated dose.
“ You would never dream of taking an entire box of acetaminophen in one sitting, and yet there is very little difference. The safety risk is incredibly high.”
Medicines like NyQuil contain a range of ingredients that combine to help you sleep properly, while relieving cold symptoms.
The medication contains acetaminophen, as well as antihistamines and decongestants.
It also contains dextromethorphan, which is a cough suppressant that can affect parts of the brain, which, in turn, helps reduce the urge to cough.
Dextromethorphan has been used previously, not as directed, by recreational drug users.
It can cause both physical and psychological effects and, in extreme cases, can cause liver failure.
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