“We were super hyperactive and anxious,” several of the students posted. Authorities continue to raise the alert and report that many have ended up physically affected and hospitalized.
Colombia News.
It is not a game, what is happening in many schools in the country has teachers, parents and authorities in the midst of great concern. The proliferation of the so-called ‘viagra challenge’ continues to cause disruption.
It has been evidenced through social networks, leaving several minors with health effects and many hospitalized for deciding to participate in the now unfortunate popular challenge.
A ‘challenge’ that consists of consuming said sexual enhancer after mixing it with water or some type of soda.
Such is the degree of concern that there is for these cases, that from Invima they have launched an alert.
- “Important information on poisonings caused by the inappropriate use of the drug Sildenafil, which is being misused by young people, putting their health at high risk,” the institute published:
Many young people have responded
Cases like these have been recorded in some areas of the country in the form of ‘jokes’ made by students to their classmates.
However, during the end of March and the beginning of April through social networks the dangerous challenge has been known.
One such post was shared on TikTok.
There you can see at least five students from a college who claim to consume water with Viagra.
After those first images, another video was released in which they stated they were “strange and restless” after consuming said mixture.
“We were super hyperactive and anxious,” they indicated.
They ‘responded’ to criticism
In their social networks in which the videos were published, many people criticized the behavior of young people
They called them to sanity and “stop those ignorant behaviors and actions.”
However, the minors responded in a striking way, assuring that they had been informed and read before doing the ‘challenge‘.
- “I come back and say it, we never go overboard with sips. We informed ourselves well before and obviously we did not exaggerate when taking it, they were small sips, “they expressed.
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