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Medical experts have criticised a new trend on TikTok, in which parents crack an egg on a young child’s head. The videos, many of which use the hashtag #eggprank, have caused some children to cry or be left “looking upset and stunned”, said Sky News. Dr Meghan Martin, a paediatric emergency medical consultant at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Florida, said she is “not a big fan of this at all” because “we’re literally smacking salmonella on their foreheads”.