A new TikTok craze has been given a health warning with doctors saying it could leave people seriously ill.
Videos posted on the social networking site show people cooking chicken in over the counter cough medicine as a way of beating colds and flu.
Some believe the dish, known as "NyQuil chicken" - named after a brand of cough syrup - can beat the regular ailments which come in the winter and said they were going to give it a go, reports the Daily Star.
But Dr Aaron Hartman, physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, has spoken out about the danger of the trend.
"When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, you boil off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super concentrated amount of drugs in the meat," he told MIC.com.
"If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it’d be as if you’re actually consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil."
The expert said the cooking method could likely lead to food poisoning, which will likely lead to sickness and diarrhoea.
One of the videos doing the rounds on TikTok uploaded by a man called Rob shows a man place two chicken breasts in a pan then frying them at a low temperature.
He then pours in "four thirds" of the greenish blue syrup over the chicken and lets it boil for 30 minutes.
He then flips the chicken to get both sides "seasoned".
He says: "Sometimes the steam really makes you sleepy."
Since the video went viral, many said they'd be trying the "sleepy chicken" dish.
But others questioned it with one saying "This meal will definitely 'put you to sleep'."
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