The Salt and Ice Challenge
Two eastern Iowa kids are recovering from severe burns after trying a viral online trend. It's called the "salt and ice challenge." Participants put table salt on exposed skin, add an ice cube, and then hold it there as long as they can tolerate the pain. ... The two may need skin grafts to repair the damage.
When added to ice, salt first dissolves in the film of liquid water that is always present on the surface, thereby lowering its freezing point below the temperature of the ice. Ice in contact with salty water, therefore, melts, creating more liquid water, which dissolves more salt, thereby causing more ice to melt, and so on.
Cinnamon challenge
The cinnamon challenge is a viral internet food challenge. A participant films themself eating a spoonful of ground cinnamon in under 60 seconds without drinking anything, with the video being uploaded to the internet as evidence.
Although most of the health risks related to the “Cinnamon Challenge” are minor such as coughing and burning of the mouth, nose, and throat, more serious side effects such as extensive coughing, nosebleeds, scarring of the lungs, and even death from lung collapse or choking can occur.
Choking Game
The Choking game refers to intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain to induce temporary loss of consciousness and euphoria.
The choking game is a dangerous practice of tweens and teens in which they self-strangulate to achieve a brief high. The high results from oxygen rushing back to the brain after breathing is cut off by the practice of strangulation.
The Choking Game, as it has come to be called, is game children play by compressing a friend's chest or squeezing their neck to cut off the flow of oxygen. ... The risk of brain damage or death is compounded when there is no one to relieve pressure, reintroduce the flow of oxygen and restore a child to consciousness.
Fire challenge
Fire challenge is an activity that refers to the application of flammable liquids to one's body and then setting the liquids aflame while being video recorded. The footage is then posted to social media sites.
The TikTok Fire Challenge stems from Jack Jerry's personal TikTok account. The famous TikToker posted numerous videos that show him spraying hairspray on his mirror in a shape of a star, circle, or square and then lighting it on fire in the dark.
Blue Whale
"Blue Whale," also known as the "Blue Whale Challenge," is a social network phenomenon dating from 2016 claimed to exist in several countries.
In a game spread over 50 days, the Blue Whale Challenge instructs the participant to complete 50 tasks, including self-harm, watching scary videos, waking at odds hours, etc. As the game progresses with each task, the participant reaches the final day that culminates into suicide. The person must prove that they have completed the tasks by sending proof – such as pictures – to their ‘curator’ or the ‘whale,’ the one who had been instructing them all this while.
In June 2017, a 21-year-old Russian Philipp Budeikin was arrested for allegedly being the mastermind behind the game. He has been charged with incitement to the suicide of at least 16 schoolgirls.
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