ADELMAN’S ANALYSIS: TikTok Challenges Present Health Risk
By SUSAN ADELMAN, MD
We all have heard that Tik Tok should be banned, but usually for political reasons. Few in the medical community realize the medical and public health dangers that kids are exposed to when they go on this platform. Along with alluring dance routines are enticing challenges to do completely ridiculous, unbelievably dangerous pranks—dangerous to the self and to others. Does anyone older than a teenager know what these challenges are? Let us go through some of them.
One is so dangerous and has caused so many deaths that Tik Tok has put up a warning message on their platform – the Blackout Challenge. In this one, the child [Read More]