What happens if cinnamon gets in your lungs

Emergency Care. Urgent Care. Safe Sleep Practices. Pay Your Bill. Financial Assistance. Medical Records. About Us Who We Are. Patient Stories. Get Involved. Health Alerts: Coronavirus. Health Library. Flu Information. Nutrition Videos. Which is not what the cinnamon challenge is. A normal person should cough and clear out all but an incidental amount of cinnamon. I love that medical journals are addressing what's happening on the Internet. They even made puns.

Should people know that getting too much cinnamon too near their lungs is potentially unhealthy? Is it possible that in 40 years we see a rash of chronic lung disease that we trace back to massive cinnamon exposures? In my opinion, not likely. Can particles get into your lungs and cause a fatal asthma attack? Also possible, but the worst thing definitively reported in the roughly five years that this has been an Internet trend is someone coughing so hard that their lung collapsed. That sometimes happens when people cough hard.

The journal article concludes: "Although we cannot make a strong statement on documented pulmonary sequelae in humans, it is prudent to warn that the Cinnamon Challenge has a high likelihood to be damaging to the lungs.

We of course appreciate caution, but a case for a "high likelihood" they have not made. Every parent should not rush their child to the emergency room or lose sleep looking back at having let a kid try to eat a spoonful of cinnamon. It doesn't mean they are doomed to future lung disease or won't get into a good college.

What started as just another day in the life of Brianna Radar ended tragically. On June 3rd, her 4 year old son, Mathew Radar was playing in the kitchen when he came across a common ingredient in every kitchen, ground cinnamon powder. Curious as kids are, he put some in his mouth. Within seconds, he was choking like he was having a seizure and collapsed right there on the kitchen floor. He was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to save him.

He was pronounced dead just an hour and a half later.