HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – A mother is sounding the alarm after her daughter almost died after doing a TikTok trend involving Benadryl.
The teen’s mother said her daughter started hallucinating last week and her heart rate spiked to nearly 200 beats per minute.
The mother rushed her daughter to the hospital after she noticed strange behavior and found Benadryl pills under her pillow.
“I asked her how many she took, and she told me two, but I didn’t believe her because the bottle was open and there were pills on the bed,” the mother said. “My husband and I counted them, and we noticed a large amount was missing.”
At the hospital, doctors asked the teen if this was a suicide attempt.
She told them no and that a friend had told her she could get high if she took enough Benadryl.
The mother looked through her daughter’s phone and saw the dangerous trend all over her feed.
“I saw all of the different TikToks she had been looking at,” the mother said. “They were all kids doing Benadryl, and it just kind of blew my mind. I thought that was a safe medication. Not something a teenager would get into.”
She said she tried reporting the videos but learned they did not violate the app’s guidelines.
The mother said she found out her daughter had secretly bought the pills when she went inside a store by herself to get batteries.
She said it was a terrifying wake-up call for both of them.
“It was really hard,” the mother said. “It was really scary. It was one of the hardest things we have been through. It really had an impact on her not being able to remember what happened that night and the next day waking up in the hospital. It scared her a lot.”
She said she already looks through her daughter’s phone, but now will be on high alert, and encourages other parents to do the same.
“I just don’t want any other parent to go through this,” she said.
Parents should stay on the lookout for things like strange behavior, hallucinations, troubling breathing and dry mouth.
The dangerous TikTok challenge has been around since at least 2023, when a 13-year-old in Ohio died.
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