TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - The 'nutmeg challenge': a dangerous social media trend JO - Archives of disease in childhood A1 - Atherton, Rachel Rose SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - 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 …

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LA - en SN - 0003-9888 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-319407 ID - ref1 ER -