Media reports have discussed how children and those with dementia could mistake laundry pods for candy and endanger their health or life by consuming them, and they were named an emerging …

May 7, 2025 · The peak of this concern came in early 2018 when the “Tide Pod Challenge” began to circulate on social media; most commonly on Tik-Tok. The challenge consisted of taking Tide pods …

Jan 30, 2018 · It’s difficult to understand why teenagers would willingly engage in risky behavior like the Tide Pod Challenge. It’s due to the combination of young brains that are still growing and forming, …

Jan 13, 2018 · Experts say the game, dubbed the “Tide pod challenge,” is dangerous. “A lot of people were just saying how stupid I was or how — why would I be willing to do that?” Marc Pagan, 19, who …

Tide POD Challenge refers to a dare game involving the consumption of Tide PODS laundry detergent capsules, which are often compared to various fruit-flavored snack foods due to their packaging and …

Mar 31, 2025 · On January 7th, 2018, YouTuber Aaron Swan posted a video pretending to be about to eat a Tide Pod. In the next few weeks, videos of children actually eating Tide Pods flooded the …

Dec 19, 2023 · In just the first half of the first month of 2018, there were already nearly 40 cases — half of which were intentional. Many experts blamed the Tide Pod Challenge, which involved teens biting …

Jan 15, 2018 · The unfortunate latest dangerous fad is the Tide pod challenge, where teenagers put single use laundry packets into their mouths.

Jan 10, 2024 · Of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, …

Dec 4, 2023 · The Tide Pod Challenge first gained notoriety in early 2018, when videos depicting participants biting into or even swallowing the brightly colored laundry pods started circulating on …