A dangerous Tiktok challenge directly from the United States. In recent weeks, the “paracetamol challenge” has appeared on social networks and in the media: the challenge consists in ingesting the maximum paracetamol, even if that means ending in the emergency room.
If its popularity remains to be put in perspective, the number of videos published in Tiktok is limited, the National Drug Safety Agency wanted to alert parents about the risks of the challenge.
“The recent increase in fields, widely transmitted by the media, reports voluntary poisoning in Paracetamol by children or adolescents,” read the Ansm press release, which alerts and calls “to the surveillance of these practices they put in danger your health. “
“Liver transplant”
As the government agency recalls, “in case of overdose, paracetamol can cause serious liver injuries, irreversible in certain cases and that may require the use of a liver transplant.”
Among the symptoms of too much paracetamol, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, loss of appetite and abundant sweats, but also renal and pancreas lesions. The ANSM calls parents and pharmacists to the greatest surveillance.
On the cover of several media, the “paracetamol challenge” remains to be put in perspective, despite the concerns of health authorities. Very few videos were published by participants, which Tiktok confirms Tech & Co.
Source: BFM TV
