ANYONE FANCY CHICKEN IN COUGH SYRUP?

TIKTOK videos of chicken being cooked in a ‘sauce’ of the cold and flu remedy NyQuil have triggered a warning from US health officials. The medication is the US equivalent of Night Nurse, and has a sedative effect. Those behind the videos say that cooking enhances this effect, creating so-called ‘sleepy chicken’. The US Food and

Drug Association (FDA) warned in September: ‘Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated.’ Worryingly, after the warning the number of searches for Nyquil Chicken surged.

Professor Penny Ward, a pharmaceutical expert at King’s College London, says: ‘Taking just twice the maximum recommended dose of paracetamol can result in liver failure. Dowsing your chicken in medication is an absolutely terrible idea.’