

'As with any medicine, abuse or misuse can lead to serious side effects with potentially long-lasting consequences, and BENADRYL products should only be used as directed by the label. 'The BENADRYL TikTok trend is extremely concerning, dangerous and should be stopped immediately. 'We encourage everyone to exercise caution in their behavior whether online or off.'Ī spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant that markets the Benadryl brand, told : 'The health and safety of people who use our products is our top priority. 'Though we have not seen this content trend on our platform, we actively remove content that violates our guidelines and block related hashtags to further discourage participation. 'As we make clear in our Community Guidelines, we do not allow content that encourages, promotes, or glorifies dangerous challenges that might lead to injury. 'The safety and well-being of our users is TikTok's top priority,' the spokesperson said. The company said it has been 'keeping an eye on this topic since and removing any new content - which again has been in extremely small numbers.' They all said they saw videos on TikTok and were curious to try it.’Ī spokesperson for TikTok told that the social media platform first learned of the 'Benadryl challenge' in May and 'quickly removed the very small amount of content that we found.'

‘None of these patients were trying to harm themselves. ‘What struck me was that we had three teens come in for the same thing in one week,’ said Amber Jewison, a nurse practitioner at Cook. Her heart rate returned to normal the next morning and she was released.

Rebekah was admitted to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth and stayed overnight. 'We rushed her to the local ER and they decided to transport her to Cook Children’s.' Her resting heart rate was 199,' Katie, Rebekah's mother told Checkup. She had fractured sentences, hallucinations. One of the teens, a 14-year-old named ‘Rebekah,’ took 14 Benadryl tablets in the middle of the night on Memorial Day. In May, three teens from Fort Worth, Texas, were hospitalized after they swallowed excessive doses of Benadryl as part of the ‘challenge.’ The girl was taking part in the so-called 'Benadryl challenge,' a new game in which teens on TikTok are encouraged to take as many allergy pills as needed in order to hallucinate or trip out A 15-year-old Oklahoma City girl died last week after she overdosed on the antihistamine Benadryl.
