'Babe, what's wrong? You've hardly touched your NyQuil chicken.'
When you heat these medications to the temperatures needed to cook a chicken, however, you're essentially boiling off the diluents, leaving behind a higher concentration of the chemicals that can make you sick if you consume too much."Boiling a medication can make it much more more concentrated and change its properties in other ways," the FDA writes in the warning, noting that cooking NyQuil releases fumes that, if inhaled, could also make you sick, even if you don't eat it.
Aaron Hartman, MD, a physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, told:"If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it'd be as if you're actually consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil," he said. Overdosing from NyQuil can be potentially fatal.
Unsurprisingly, NyQuil absolutely does not recommend using its product to cook chicken either."Consumer safety is our number one priority and we do not endorse inappropriate use of our product,"back in January."NyQuil is an OTC medication that treats nighttime symptoms of the common cold & flu. It should be taken as directed using the dosage cup provided not to exceed 4 doses in 24 hrs.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first warning released by the FDA related to over-the-counter drug use for the sake of going viral. The"NyQuil Chicken Challenge" is just a renewal of the"sleepy chicken" challenge that circulated on TikTok earlier this year. Before that was the"
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