Social media challenges will be weird, fun, or simply plain dangerous – it seems there aren’t any limits to what some people will do for likes.
Take the “gallon challenge,” for instance. Social media influencers encouraged their followers to drink a gallon (3.78 litres in the UK) of milk in 60 minutes without vomiting. That may not sound too scary – until you consider that the average human stomach holds about 1.5 lStudies have shown that drinking 250 ml of milk slightly over an hour leave the stomach.
So the gallon challenge is probably going to lead to one in all two outcomes. Either the person taking the challenge will probably be suffering from nausea, pain, bloating, and diarrhea as the body tries to help the stomach address the overflow. Or the person will vomit as the body tries to do away with the stomach contents and reduce the risk of injury. Overflowing the stomach can lead to gastrorrhexis, where the stomach wall is stretched a lot that it tears—and it’s (normally) fatal.
Other food challenges include the “cinnamon challenge,” during which social media users tried to swallow a tablespoon of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds. This is a really bad idea.
For starters, cinnamon is a wealthy source coumarina relationship that will be toxic to the liver so it just isn’t really helpful to devour such large amounts of ground cinnamon.
Also, eating cinnamon or another powder form herbs or spices can damage the lining of the esophagus or trachea, and even lungs.
The body keeps the surfaces of those areas moist. to protect themOnce swallowed, the powder immediately sticks to these surfaces, drying them out and causing cracks. protective liningwhich might lead to serious infections.
In 2018, as you may remember, “TidePod Challenge” went viral. To that end, some social media users ate laundry capsules to get likes. Laundry capsule ingestion is already a serious problem in the US and UK. In late 2022, research showed that not less than one child every hour is injured by contact with laundry capsules. Why people One can only guess who would take such great risks to their health for the entertainment of others.
Symptoms of swallowing a laundry capsule include vomiting, nausea, drowsiness and rashesSince the detergent is corrosive, swallowing the laundry capsules may cause burning of the esophagus and stomach liningand produce about changes in respiration and mental stateIn some cases, individuals who have swallowed laundry detergent capsules need to external respiration support.
Eye injuries are a standard side effect swallowing laundry detergent capsules. Many of the chemicals in laundry detergents are designed to remove body fluids from our clothes, so if any a part of our body – from our eyes to our throats to our stomachs – comes into contact with the detergent, it should start trying to destroy them.
Dragon’s breath is as awful because it sounds
If those challenges don’t sound weird enough for you, how about “dragon’s breath”? In this challenge, social media users eat candy covered in liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen has a boiling point of around 196°C, meaning it will evaporate under normal conditions, but touching it with any a part of the body could cause full thickness burns.
When ingested, liquid nitrogen at low temperatures causes surface burns. esophagus AND stomach. If liquid nitrogen comes into contact with warmer temperatures inside the body, more gas is produced, which might lead to rapid expansion, rupture esophagus or stomach wide open.
And the danger isn’t limited to social media users trying to challenge their viewership. Some bars and restaurants are serving cocktails and desserts with liquid nitrogen. The vapor produced by the chemical may look spectacular, but it surely should never be consumed. In 2012, Gaby Scanlon She was given a cocktail called “Nitro-Jagermeister” to have fun her 18th birthday. The drink caused a big perforation of her stomach. Her stomach had to be removed and her esophagus connected directly to her small intestine.
As a part of the “Benadryl challenge,” some social media users filmed themselves taking excessive amounts of the antihistamine. Benadryl comprises the lively ingredient diphenhydraminewhich acts as a sedative – and can also be present in many over-the-counter sleeping pills.
Excessive consumption of the drug may cause heart problems, seizures, and even comasTreatment is difficult because many therapies could cause Competing SymptomsAn overdose of diphenhydramine will be fatal.
What could possibly go fallacious?
Finally, in a “corn cob challenge,” some social media users mounted a corn on an influence drill and attempted to eat it as quickly as possible from the rotating tool. What could possibly go fallacious?
Well, for starters, the painful lack of a tooth. A rapidly rotating piece of food that creates plenty of force in your teeth can rip them out of their bony sockets, rupturing the periodontal ligament that anchors them. Tooth extraction – when a tooth is totally knocked out of its socket – is kind of common in children. Studies have shown that placing tooth in milk increases the likelihood of rejoining the nest.
The moral of the story is that if you value the lining of your esophagus, trachea, lungs, and stomach, you should avoid any outlandish or risky-sounding social media challenges. Too often, what was meant to be fun and entertaining for viewers ended up being a terrible tragedy.