"Boiling water challenge": the dangerous virus that has already sent several people to the hospital

The boiling water challenge, for his translation, "boiling water challenge", Caused the hospitalization dozens of people in the United States in recent weeks.

The viral challenge is to throw hot water in the air and see how it It freezes completely before touching the ground. The practice has occurred as part of the polar wave that crosses the American Midwest, which has caused the descent of temperatures below the -50 degrees in cities like Chicago.

As colorful as it may seem, this challenge has already sent several people to the hospital with burns of different degree. In Illinois, only the Loyola University Burn Treatment Center treated eight cases.

The ages of hospitalized patients vary from 3 and 53 years old. According to a statement from the medical center: "People could be burned first, second or even third degree when they accidentally spill boiling water on their feet or over their face or body. "

One of the videos in which the challenge goes wrong

According to the doctors, in addition to being dangerous for obvious reasons, it happens that water is projected as soon as a gust of wind arrives and that return to whoever throws it. That's why they say it's common to find wounds Burns on the face.

Before the emotion of seeing how the water turns into snow, a lot of kids they enter on the path of the adults who make the challenge and end up getting wet by the boiling water.

Doctors have warned that taking up the challenge can be very tempting, "probably the best idea is to avoid it"