Citation

Atherton RR. Arch. Dis. Child. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/archdischild-2020-319407

PMID

32620571

Abstract

The most recent in a series of dangerous social media trends has seen children ingesting large quantities of nutmeg in an attempt to gain a natural 'high'.

Over the past 20 years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of online social media platforms, with sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat allowing increasing access to a wide variety of content from across the world. Since 2018, users have turned to TikTok, a mobile phone application ('app') that allows the creation of 15 second videos which are shared online. It now hosts approximately 800 million active users,1 the majority …

Language: en

Keywords

accident & emergency; toxicology