Why, why, WHY are people doing this ?!
Behold this year’s first REALLY DUMB TikTok challenge. And not only is it dumb, but it’s extremely dangerous too . . .
So, there’s a new “health” trend on TikTok called the Sleepy Chicken Challenge . . . that involves boiling your chicken dinner in NYQUIL.
Someone somewhere got the idea in their head that it can cure a cold. But there’s no evidence to back that up, and it could actually KILL you instead. Read that again. Could actually KILL YOU.
Basically, you put a single chicken breast in a pot . . . dump up to half-a-bottle of NyQuil in there . . . and braise or boil it until it’s cooked. Hopefully FULLY cooked . . . people seem to be having trouble with that part.
It’s dangerous even if you do fully cook it though. For two reasons:
- It’s just an insane amount of NyQuil. When you boil it down, the water and alcohol evaporate, but the drugs are still in the chicken. So you’re basically loading a chicken breast with WAY too much medicine, and you could overdose.
- When you boil liquid medicine like that, you can end up inhaling some of the medication, which is also bad. When that happens, it bypasses your liver and goes straight into your bloodstream without any toxins being filtered out. And just that alone can mess you up.
SMH.