--- title: The 'Deodorant Challenge' Leaves Teen With Severe Burns description: A mom is warning other parents after the "deodorant challenge" left her daughter with second-degree burns on her arm canonical: https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-09T09:30:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:09:15.041Z og:title: The 'Deodorant Challenge' Leaves Teen With Severe Burns og:description: Her mom is warning other parents about the dangers of the school playground game og:url: https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt403a3aa7e00c8b94/69892fe40a4a22e18d9d2a4d/gettyimages-600392086.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3936 og:image:height: 2214 og:image:alt: Aerosol can og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'Deodorant Challenge' Leaves Teen With Severe Burns twitter:description: Her mom is warning other parents about the dangers of the school playground game twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt403a3aa7e00c8b94/69892fe40a4a22e18d9d2a4d/gettyimages-600392086.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Teenager Was Left With Second-Degree Burns After Taking Part in 'The Deodorant Challenge' > Sponsored content. 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A U.K. mother revealed her daughter was left with second-degree burns, after taking part in an online trend called “The Deodorant Challenge.”_ by [Casey Quackenbush](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush May 9, 2018 9:30 AM UTC A U.K. mother revealed her daughter was left with second-degree burns, after taking part in an online trend called “The Deodorant Challenge.” by [Casey Quackenbush](https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/) ## Casey Quackenbush May 9, 2018 9:30 AM UTC Various strange, and sometimes dangerous, trends have come and gone in school playgrounds and on social media over the years. There was the [mannequin challenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFaUhLkdRPg). Then it was the [backpack challenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgThvZMWeo0). Then the infamous [Tide-pod challenge](http://time.com/5108478/tide-pod-challenge-poison-control/). But the “deodorant challenge” is the latest to worry parents, as kids who take part are seriously injuring themselves. Mom Jamie Prescott from South Gloucestershire, England, posted on Facebook after the deodorant challenge left her daughter, who is in the ninth grade, with second-degree burns on her arm, [according](https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/mum-warns-dangers-deodorant-challenge-daughter-left-severely-burnt-101607793.html?guccounter=1) to Yahoo News. “For any parents who have children, please, please sit them down and show them these pictures,” she wrote. “These are the damaging results of something known as ‘The Deodorant Challenge’.” The challenge is a test of endurance and involves spraying deodorant from an aerosol can directly onto a person’s bare skin. The aim is to see who can hold it there the longest. Prescott said that her daughter’s injuries were so bad that she may need a skin graft. Her post, which included several photos showing the wound, has been shared more than 4,000 times since it was uploaded on May 4. > [](https://twitter.com/LevinsReports/status/993992289520320512) > [](https://twitter.com/SJisinterested/status/993925181948284929) While the deodorant challenge is not new, and [warnings](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/07/dumbest-craze-ever-teens-deliberately-burn-themselves-in-aerosol-challenge%5Fn%5F7336366.html) about the school craze have been around for at least a few years, Prescott’s post has served as a caution that the challenge is still causing damage. “This is a very scary trend, because basically these kids are committing chemical burns,” dermatologist Dr. Doris Day [told](https://www.today.com/parents/deodorant-challenge-latest-teen-craze-hurting-kids-t112352) TODAY in June 2017\. “The force of the aerosol itself and the temperature change on the skin can potentially cause second- and third-degree burns.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/"},"headline":"A Teenager Was Left With Second-Degree Burns After Taking Part in 'The Deodorant Challenge'","datePublished":"2018-05-09T09:30:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T09:09:15.041Z","description":"The challenge leaving kids with severe arm burns","url":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt403a3aa7e00c8b94/69892fe40a4a22e18d9d2a4d/gettyimages-600392086.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Casey Quackenbush","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/casey-quackenbush/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt403a3aa7e00c8b94/69892fe40a4a22e18d9d2a4d/gettyimages-600392086.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Aerosol can","caption":"Aerosol can","creditText":"Kim_white—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/","name":"A Teenager Was Left With Second-Degree Burns After Taking Part in 'The Deodorant Challenge'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Teenager Was Left With Second-Degree Burns After Taking Part in 'The Deodorant Challenge'","description":"A U.K. mother revealed her daughter was left with second-degree burns, after taking part in an online trend called “The Deodorant Challenge.”","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VTMcAQB8/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-05-09T15:07:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VTMcAQB8.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/","duration":"PT47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5270672/deodorant-challenge-trend-burns-warning/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```