The problem includes utilizing a lighter and spray to create a makeshift blowtorch.

TikTook is not any stranger to harmful viral traits. After the viral Benadryl development claimed the life of a US teenager, an analogous problem has left a 16-year-old boy with third-degree burns. According to New York Post, a teen in North Carolina has been disfigured, with burns protecting practically 75% of his physique after trying a TikTook problem that went horribly unsuitable.

Notably, the problem includes utilizing a lighter and spray to create a makeshift blowtorch. As per the report, Mason Dark and his associates have been trying the development final Sunday when the can of spray paint he was holding exploded with an enormous bang, consuming the kids in flames.

To soothe the burns, Mason jumped into a close-by river however emerged with charred pores and skin. He was rushed to the hospital the place he stays within the UNC Burn Center and is anticipated to be there for not less than six months. On April 26, Mason went into surgical procedure to get pores and skin grafts to start out the lengthy therapeutic course of. 

”[We] come to search out out now from the surgical procedure, that he is obtained the third-degree burns… it is like a T in his again and it was from him taking off his shirt, after which it obtained caught or one thing,” his mom Holli Dark, advisedWRAL. 

”He’s unrecognizable. Unrecognizable,” she added.

The boy’s grandmother additionally set up a GoFundMe page on his behalf.

 A word by his mom reads, ”My son Mason, wants your prayers. 75% of his physique is burned. The accident occurred on the afternoon of Sunday, April 23, 2023. He jumped right into a river to extinguish the flames. The threat of an infection from the river water is excessive, on prime of getting 2nd and Third-degree burns. We are grateful to be on the UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill. It is among the prime within the nation. Mason has an extended highway forward of him. Please pray for his restoration. He is in an unbelievable quantity of ache and is sedated.”

The incident comes days after a 13-year-old boy from Ohio, US died after overdosing on over-the-counter medication while attempting a viral TikTok trend. The teenager died after ingesting 12 to 14 pills of Benadryl, an antihistamine as part of the ‘Benadryl Challenge’ on the social media platform TikTook.