A new viral challenge on TikTok has already claimed the death of an American teenager. Jacob Stevensan American boy of only 13 years, has died after being hospitalized for six days after participating in the “Benadryl Challenge”. This is a viral challenge that consists of ingesting this antihistamine until hallucinating

Young people who have tried the challenge end up with breathing difficulties and they are unable to control their movements. They even have a hard time staying awake. Despite this, they try to hold on to overcome the challenge. “I feel very strange, very tired, but I heard that you have to overcome tiredness to feel good,” explains a young woman.

This extremely dangerous challenge has gone viral: Stevens took between 12 and 14 pills, when the recommended dose is one every six hours. This was too much for her body, he began to convulse and ended up going into a coma. After six days they disconnected it.

The boy’s father, Justin Stevens, says that “when he did it, it all came at once and it was too much for his body.” His grandmother, Dianna Stevens, assures that her grandson did not have any kind of brain activity: “There was no brain to scan, there was nothing there. They said we could keep him on the respirator, but will never open his eyes“.

The United States drug agency already warned in 2020 of the danger of this challenge. But it has not been until Jacob’s death when TikTok has decided to remove all the videos of this challenge from its platform.