This challenge, made popular on TikTok, encourages the user to ingest large amounts of diphenhydramine to get high and record their responses. In August of 2020, Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Benadryl, issued a warning about the “Benadryl challenge” following the death of a 15-year-old female who ingested a large amount of diphenhydramine. 6 These impressionable minds are likely to view and respond to various challenges. 4 What is most important for pediatricians to know is that 32.5% of TikTok users are teenagers. 5 However, there has been a great deal of misinformation on TikTok during the pandemic as well. Vietnam created videos on TikTok during the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic focusing on mask wearing and avoiding touching one’s face. 4 Some countries have engaged users on this platform for public health messaging. It began in 2017 in mainland China but proliferated rapidly to reach over 1 billion users worldwide. TikTok is a social media platform where individuals view short videos that are curated to their interests based on TikTok’s algorithms. These challenges are spread rapidly through social media channels such as YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. 1,2,3 Each resulted in serious morbidity amongst children. Some of these include the cinnamon challenge in 2012, the Tide Pod challenge in 2016, and nutmeg challenge in 2020.
What has emerged in the last decade have been Internet challenges that pose a significant risk to pediatric patients. The use of social media has proliferated the rate of information sharing with both significant benefits and concerns.
0 kommentar(er)
