Doctor: 1 hospitalized, 7 more injured after Boiling Water Challenge in Chicago area
CHICAGO, Illinois --
Despite last week's extreme cold, Loyola University Medical Center treated eight people for second and third-degree burns indirectly caused by those same frigid temperatures.
Dr. Arthur Sanford, a burn surgeon at Loyola, said every patient attributed their injuries to the same cause: a splash-back of scalding hot water during a failed Boiling Water Challenge attempt.
"Seven with the blistered burns," said Sanford of those treated, adding that the woman with the more severe third-degree burning, "might need an operation because the burns are so deep."
These people (like many others as seen across social media) heated water and threw it into the sub-zero air, expecting it to transform into a powder-like state and blow away in the wind. But that apparently didn't work out for everyone; sometimes the water stayed liquid and hit people.
The youngest patient seen at Loyola is 3 years old. Sanford said that individual (like some of the other patients) was just standing next to someone else throwing the water.
https://abc13.com/health/1-hospitalized-and-7-injured-in-boiling-water-challenge/5127210/
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