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On Thursday, a ten-year-old Italian girl suffered brain death after participating in a TikTok app to “suffocate.”
The Italian agency “ANSA” indicated that the challenge was aimed at children, and aims to lose consciousness for a few seconds and share the experience through the application.
The girl was found after losing consciousness while fastening a belt around her neck.
According to the agency, the girl’s parents decided to donate her organs after verifying her death.
Experts cautioned against participating in TikTok challenges, some of which lead to coma, brain malfunction, and sometimes even death.
TikTok encourages its users to report any inappropriate behavior displayed by users of the app and those who share similar challenges.
Recently, a series of deaths of some users of the application, especially children, were detected as a result of participating in challenges and dangerous actions aimed at publishing them.
In the middle of last year, a 10-year-old Egyptian boy died after participating in a similar challenge, known as the “gallows challenge.”
At first, some treated the death as suicide, but Egyptian prosecution investigations revealed that there was no criminal suspicion and that the boy (MA) from the Al-Matareya neighborhood of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, was imitating videos of older men in the electronic application while competing with each other. In the challenge.
The boy tied a rope to the fan and put it around his neck and began to scream, but the family was unable to save him, according to local Egyptian newspapers.
In this challenge, some young people hang from a rope for a while to see who can hold out the longest.
Last year, another challenge called “skull crusher” spread through the app, as some people lost the ability to move after participating in it.
And recently, the United States witnessed the death of a 15-year-old teenager after participating in a challenge to take lethal amounts of an allergy drug, “Benadryl,” which was popular with teens via TikTok.
The FDA issued a defiance warning after the teen was killed.
The Food and Drug Administration said in its warning that “taking higher than recommended doses of allergy medications … diphenhydramine (Benadryl) can lead to serious heart problems, seizures, coma or even death.”
“We are aware of news reports of teens ending up in emergency rooms or dying after participating in the Benadryl Challenge, which is encouraged by the videos posted on the social media app TikTok,” he added.
