“The body has specific limits – It can’t hold an unchewed burger” – Critical hours for the 22-year-old

Doctors at “Gennimatas” Hospital are fighting to keep the 22-year-old alive after he reportedly swallowed an entire burger.

Speaking on Open TV on Saturday morning, the president of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, stressed:

“Without knowing whether the young man was doing a challenge or not, unfortunately his condition is not good. We are trying, doing everything possible — doctors and nursing staff in the ICU of ‘Gennimatas’. However, the brain hypoxia — the time his brain was left without oxygen — has damaged his vital organs. We hope for a miracle so that he pulls through.”

Giannakos also warned about dangerous online “dares”:

“We see kids trying to swallow whole pieces of pizza or burgers. This is not stupidity; it is suicide. The human body has specific limits; the trachea and airway have specific capacity. An unchewed burger cannot fit. Doing this to win a bet, a like — this is not carelessness. It is pure suicide.”

“He had something like a panic attack – There was no challenge”

A friend of the 22-year-old who was with him described to Mega how the incident happened, insisting that there was no challenge involved.

“He had something like a panic attack. He got up and ran a bit further away. We thought he was going to spit it out because he didn’t want to make a mess around us. But he didn’t. He made a move to come back, then moved away again as if to spit it out. We said: ‘Okay, now it’s coming.’ But that didn’t happen either,” he said.

He continued:

“Then he started coming back again and that’s when we realised something was wrong — he was banging his back against a column, probably trying to spit it out or something.

The guys rushed to give him first aid. One is a lifeguard and the other works as crew on a sailing boat. It’s something we’ve done many times before: him trying to put in an entire bite at once. There was no challenge, nothing — it was something usual. He just said ‘look’. If you want to call it something, call it a joke.”

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