Girl, 8, is hospitalized after swallowing COIN to copy viral TikTok stunt as her dad warns parents
AN 8-YEAR-OLD girl who swallowed a quarter while attempting to copy a TikTok trick was rushed to a hospital almost unable to breathe.
The girl, identified as Dhakota of Roseville, Michigan, tried to imitate a magic trick that involved putting a die in her mouth and rolling it around to make it seem to vanish.
She used a coin instead because she could not find any dice at home.
When the quarter got stuck in her throat, Dhakota spent several minutes in the bathroom trying to explain what occurred and struggling to breathe, WDIV-TV reported on Saturday.
“She said she couldn’t swallow. She couldn’t breathe hardly and that’s when me and her mother started to panic,” her father, who was not identified, told the television station.
Dhakota’s parents took her to two different hospitals until she was able to be seen immediately.
Doctors revealed that the quarter was stuck sideways in Dhakota’s throat and that she required an emergency procedure as well as an overnight stay at the hospital.
“I didn’t know how bad the situation was until they brought the x-ray back and I saw the quarter right there in her esophagus,” her father said.
“It killed me, man.”
Doctors told Dhakota’s father they had not seen anything like her condition before.
She has been discharged from the hospital and is still experiencing some soreness and will require a follow-up visit with the doctor.
Dhakota’s father said the accident “could happen to any child” and warned other parents of the dangers of their children using TikTok.
“Everybody in the city, anybody in the world, they should delete that off their kid’s phone or their tablet because it’s dangerous, man,” he said.
“I could’ve lost my kid.”
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Dhakota is the latest of several children and teenagers who have been hospitalized after trying TikTok challenges.
Two months ago, Chloe Phillips, 15, of Oklahoma, died after attempting the TikTok Benadryl challenge, which entails ingesting large doses of the medicine to hallucinate.
Phillips’ aunt Janette Sissy Leasure warned other parents: “This needs to stop taking our kids or putting them in hospital. I don’t want to see any families go through what we are going through right now.”