Overview
- Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth reports more than 100 Benadryl overdoses in the past six months, and one child has died.
- The social media trend urges kids to take large amounts of the allergy drug to try to hallucinate, with most cases involving teens and pre-teens.
- Doctors at the hospital warn of fast or irregular heartbeat and severe urinary retention that can strain the kidneys.
- Medical staff urge parents to store medicines securely and talk with children about risky posts they see online.
- The FDA first warned in 2020 that high doses of diphenhydramine can cause life‑threatening effects and said it pressed TikTok to remove related videos.