The “cinnamon challenge” is where people try and swallow 1teaspoon of cinnamon. A Michigan student was hospitalized this week after taking part in the ‘cinnamon challenge’. A high school principal is warning students not to participate and mailing parents about its dangers. The cinnamon induces vomiting, choking, coughing and sometimes hypoxia. There is a Facebook page for this challenge and it says that participants will experience ‘dragon breath’ (exhaling a cloud of cinnamon). Cinnamon does not dissolve in liquid. On the Dr.Drew show they had the record holder, Mick, 24seconds. Dr. Drew said that kids do “stupid stuff, like planking and owling” but said that this was nothing to mess with. The cinnamon collapsed the students left lung and gave her an infection in her nose resulting in pneumonia. She spent 5 days of her winter break in the hospital.
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