
(AP) – The medical community is urging parents to take whatever steps necessary to protect their children from the latest trend sweeping the TikTok app, the “Benadryl Challenge.” The game involves TikTok users, mostly teenagers, encouraging each other to take as much over-the-counter allergy medication as needed to hallucinate. Doctors say the challenge is not only dangerous but also based on a false premise. They say it causes sedation but not a high, and, in addition to not producing the quick high teens might be seeking, side effects caused by misuse of the medication can include heart attack, seizure and stroke.