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DANGEROUS SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGES
Dominic Lucia, MD, Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center

{**ON CAM**}
A MASSACHUSETTS TEEN DIED IN SEPTEMBER ... AFTER HIS FAMILY SAYS HE PARTICIPATED IN A CHALLENGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT INVOLVED EATING AN EXTREMELY SPICY CHIP.

{**TAKE VO**}
ONE PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR SAYS HE REGULARLY TREATS CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN INJURED AS THE RESULT OF A CHALLENGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
BUT WHY ARE SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS ... ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS ONES, SO APPEALING TO CHILDREN? TURNS OUT, IT’S ALL IN THEIR HEADS..

{**TAKE SOT**}
Dominic Lucia, MD
Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center
TRT :19
Teens are at a unique part in their brain growth, where that risk-taking part of their brain, their amygdala, that fight or flight part that gets really excited and releases a lot of dopamine. Doing something that’s potentially dangerous, or that they see others in their peer group doing, is extremely enticing.

{**ON CAM**}
DOCTOR LUCIA ADVISES PARENTS TO SPEAK TO THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE SEEING ONLINE ... AND HELP THEM THINK OF WAYS TO DOUBLE-CHECK WHETHER A CHALLENGE COULD BE HARMFUL.