![]() "By cooking the food, you remove the water and any other liquid in there that gives an idea of dose so you just get a super-concentrated dose." "By taking more than you should, you run the real risk of acute liver poisoning, as well as dizziness, vomiting, seizures and death. If you soak a food in it, and then cook it, you are very likely to overdose or at least have no idea what dose you are getting," Hartman added. "We have doses on medicines for a reason. He also said that another big risk is the fact that you are breathing the medicine in, as well as eating it. In some of the videos circulating on TikTok, people appear to boil the chicken with the flu remedy for only five minutes, then saying it's "ready to eat".Īccording to Dr Hartman, the fad is also a recipe for food poisoning. "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 told MIC.com. "When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, you boil off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super concentrated amount of drugs in the meat," he explained. The idea that by saturating any food product in a medicine believing that it will provide some novel health benefit or cure is not just stupid, but incredibly dangerous."ĭr Aaron Hartman, physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, has also spoken out against the trend. ![]() "The case of NyQuil chicken is no different. He added that the fad is "not just stupid, but incredibly dangerous". "It tends to bring out the worst in some cases, hence the Darwinian approach of anti-vaxxers who obtain their medical 'research' from such sources as Facebook and Instagram," Dr Jeff Foster told The Sun. Numerous TikTok videos show people making the dish, with some of them seemingly pouring half a bottle of cough medicine on the raw chicken meat before braising it.ĭoctors warn you should not cook chicken, or anything, with cold and flu remedies. Medical experts have asked TikTok users to steer clear of the latest trendy fad, called "sleepy chicken", which involves cooking chicken braised in a cold and flu medicine such as Nyquil or Benadryl.
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