Doctors warn teens about taking the 'cinnamon challenge' in new report

[BlueGin]

CHICAGO – Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.

The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. But the spice is caustic, and trying to gulp it down can cause choking, throat irritation, breathing trouble and even collapsed lungs, the report said.


The number of poison control center calls about teens doing the prank "has increased dramatically," from 51 in 2011 to 222 last year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

Read more: Doctors warn teens about taking the 'cinnamon challenge' in new report | Fox News

 

[editec]

The whole JACKASS mentality makes no sense to me.

 

[Truthmatters]

Its part of being under 25 and human.


the brain is not fully developed until 25


people under 25 can not properly acess risk.

This is also the age people are struting arround looking for a mate.

Its a fluffing of the feathers type of phenom.


we are just animals


beautiful caring and curios animals.

 

[editec]

I understand taking risks for fun or profit.

I do not understand taking risks simply to take them.

So you gag down a spoonful of cinnamon successfully.

Then what?

Are you the envy of all your friends?

Do you win a prize?

What's the bloody point?

 

[whitehall]

If it's on You Tube it's gotta be legitimate right? Teens will never smarten up as long as they are educated by the teachers union and the gigantic federal bureaucracy.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The one that has the girl with the ring in her lip cracks me every time!

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Its part of being under 25 and human.


the brain is not fully developed until 25


people under 25 can not properly acess risk.

This is also the age people are struting arround looking for a mate.

Its a fluffing of the feathers type of phenom.


we are just animals


beautiful caring and curios animals.

Well, some people under 25 have a lot more good sense than some others. So I don't think "being under 25" is the sole factor operating here.

I think a lot of it is intelligence and upbringing. I know many, many intelligent, responsible, sensible young people who don't do stupid shit like this.

 

[BlueGin]

Its part of being under 25 and human.


the brain is not fully developed until 25


people under 25 can not properly acess risk.

This is also the age people are struting arround looking for a mate.

Its a fluffing of the feathers type of phenom.


we are just animals


beautiful caring and curios animals.

Well, some people under 25 have a lot more good sense than some others. So I don't think "being under 25" is the sole factor operating here.

I think a lot of it is intelligence and upbringing. I know many, many intelligent, responsible, sensible young people who don't do stupid shit like this.

And plenty that will. Get a group of kids together...heat of the moment...think it would be a lark (and harmless). A truth or dare kind ofa moment. Only takes once and the worst can happen. Plenty of teens put themselves is bad situations like this (and others) everyday...intelligent upbringing or not.

 

[BlueGin]

If it's on You Tube it's gotta be legitimate right? Teens will never smarten up as long as they are educated by the teachers union and the gigantic federal bureaucracy.

Apparently...kids are also now using nutmeg to get high. Care to guess where they may have also learned to do this ?

Kids are getting high on a common household spice -- nutmeg

TAMPA, Fla. - There are new concerns for parents, as a common household spice is now being abused by teenagers to get high. Video of kids smoking, eating and drinking large quantities of nutmeg to get high can be found all over YouTube.com.

Read more: Kids are getting high on a common household spice -- nutmeg

 

[editec]

Nutmeg does work as a hallucinogenic...a rather powerful one at that.

At least in that case there SEEMS TO BE a point.

Incidently do NOT try this at home.

You truly do not understand misery until you are tripping your ass off, while your gut feels like its being stabbed with icepicks and your every burp tastes like the ass end of a nutmeg.

 

[BlueGin]

Nutmeg does work as a hallucinogenic...a rather powerful one at that.

At least in that case there SEEMS TO BE a point.

Incidently do NOT try this at home.

You truly do not understand misery until you are tripping your ass off, while your gut feels like its being stabbed with icepicks and your every burp tastes like the ass end of a nutmeg.

Ummm...no. I would rather not.

 

[Connery]

I am totally screwed I have cinnamon in my oatmeal every morning...

 

[AmyNation]

We had a friend in high school who would eat anything. We used to do stupid stuff like this and have him chug random things, hot sauce bottles at restaurants, random weird combined foods.

 

[Connery]

We had a friend in high school who would eat anything. We used to do stupid stuff like this and have him chug random things, hot sauce bottles at restaurants, random weird combined foods.

Was he involved with "butt chugging"?

“Mr. Broughton [the accused butt chugger] denies each and every allegation whatsoever that has been infered that he may have been a gay man. He is a straight man”




'Butt chugging' hilarious thing

 

[BlueGin]

I am totally screwed I have cinnamon in my oatmeal every morning...

That looks yummy. Some mornings I stop at Jack In The Box for their blueberry muffin oatmeal (which is pretty good). Yours looks better though.

 

[Connery]

I am totally screwed I have cinnamon in my oatmeal every morning...

That looks yummy. Some mornings I stop at Jack In The Box for their blueberry muffin oatmeal (which is pretty good). Yours looks better though.

Thanks..."Old Fashioned" Quaker Oats, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, blackberries, Chia seeds, honey and 1% milk. This one was for my son. I eat mine out of a pot; why dirty another dish....

 

[Noomi]

Never fails to amaze me how stupid the teens of today have become...

 

[Mad Scientist]

Never fails to amaze me how stupid the teens of today have become...

My Mom says that when she was in H.S (1955) that the funny/weird thing to do was to snort ladybugs.

Apparently my Uncle Dennis was the Ladybug Snortin' King!

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Never fails to amaze me how stupid the teens of today have become...

Are you kidding, Noomi? When I was in high school in the 60s, a big fad was to play the "choking game," where someone holds you from behind, I guess putting pressure on your neck and causes you to pass out. Apparently when the pressure is released you experience "a high." I can remember kids doing this AT SCHOOL! I never participated, nor did some other kids.

Not to mention all the drinking and weed smoking and unprotected sex that was going on. And drinking and driving. Then when I went off to college, kids were doing acid and shrooms and heroin and God knows what else. Anything they could get their hands on. And everybody was trying to be hippies, and all the trappings that went along with that lifestyle.

No, kids are no worse today.

 

[Noomi]

^I am glad I missed all of that. Guess I was a well behaved teen!