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“They Put Duct Tape On Blistered Skin”: 50 Times Doctors Saved Patients From Their DIY Treatments
Interview With Expert
Preventative medical care can detect and neutralize early warning signs before they become a bigger issue. Still, many people are reluctant to get checked by a professional.
Maybe they don't understand the risks, maybe they feel afraid or embarrassed, or maybe they simply can't afford it, so instead, they treat themselves. But when you haven't gone to med school, and your only resources are Google and ChatGPT, trying to diagnose and fix your own health problems can backfire badly.
So, Reddit user Shandrith asked doctors, nurses, and others in the medical field to share the craziest DIY treatments they've ever witnessed.
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#1
Parents sneaking essential oils onto their premature babies’ skin! They have central lines, these oils can wick onto the line and damage the line, cause infection, or interfere with medications. Infections in premies can mean death within hours. Premies have incomplete skin with much faster absorption rates than fully developed adult skin. These oils can cause burns and damage their insides. Your pyramid scheme company is not a reliable source for neonatology treatments. Please dear God keep oils off of any baby, but especially premies.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 6 months ago
it was on facebook!! it must be true!!
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Robin Roper 6 months ago
A sad part of this is if the medical staff specifically told these parents to NOT PUT OILS on the baby, they would see this as proof the medial establishment was in cahoots with Pharma to keep these miracle treatments away from the public. There is a circular stupidity to this that is difficult to comprehend.
Bookworm 6 months ago
But my sister's friend's cousin's aunt's mother-in-law's best friend's wife's niece's neighbor's boss's mother's great-aunt 's granddaughter's teacher's sister in law said it worked on her preemie!
Nikole 6 months ago
Knowing one of my aunts, lard would be suggested as a panacea…
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Beth Wheeler 6 months ago
It's amazing at how stupid people are. You're not supposed to use anything except what they have in NICU
Katie White 6 months ago (edited)
I won’t ever go near essential oil again. I read that oregano oil was a cure for a yeast infection so I picked up some essential oil. Went into work and thought I would put it on to soothe the burn down there. WORST MISTAKE of my life. The pain was so excruciating that I was throwing up. I had to try to explain what happened to my coworker and I had to jump in the shower at my client’s house. It was the most painful, stupid and embarrassing thing that I have done to myself
Nadine Debard 6 months ago (edited)
I'm sorry that this happened to you. You don't mess with essential oils. They're powerful, yet dangerous. Origano oil should never ever be put on your body without being extremely cautious. And never on an infection like that. You can eat it (again very, very cautiously) as a cure, but if you don't understand anything about how it works you're right to stay far, far away from it.
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Rick Murray 6 months ago
My mother dabbled with being an aromatherapist (massage and oils). The important thing is (as one of her test subjects and I read all the course materials) you put *drops* of the stuff into an inert carrier oil, and while you can mix different essential oils (some twaddle about high notes and low notes) there's a crazy long list of restrictions and yet more depending on the person (medical condition, if they're going to be out in the sun, etc etc). Mom said to me that she doesn't really believe in special properties of the oils other than "smells nice", the main thing is the massage which is very intimate and often gets people to open up, so the primary part of being an aromatherapist is being a therapist and just listening and gently guiding. Everybody needs to feel heard and not neglected or ignored. *That* was mom's specialty. The oils and stuff? Mostly the pretext to get to the talky-listeny part.
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., a general practitioner, medical researcher, and the founder of PrimeHealth Family Practice and Clinical Research, told Bored Panda that she herself looks "for changes in regular patterns, especially if something is unusual and really sticks out. For example, it's easy to say, 'Oh, I just have a fever' at the beginning of an infection, but if it's really persistent, well, that's different, and that should be checked."
"The same is true for any type of pain, whether it's chest pain, abdominal pain, or pelvic pain," the doctor added. "Fleeting pains are really common and mostly not of concern, but anything that's persistent or extremely severe should get checked."
"Consider a common cold. Everything's fine if it lasts 7 to 10 days and there's a smattering of symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat, and a bit of a cough. That's a typical common cold. But if there's shortness of breath, a terrible cough, chest tightness or wheezing, these are signs of something more sinister," Gorfinkel explained.
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#2
Finally, something I can add to! When I was in med school on my family medicine rotation I was sent in to see a middle-aged woman with complaints of sinus congestion. Sure enough, from the beginning I can tell she's really stopped up with her nasally voice and my history and exam are consistent with your run of the mill viral upper respiratory infection. I begin educating her on symptomatic management and the following exchange ensues:
Patient: "Do you think it might be the flu?"
Me: "It's possible but unlikely; it's really out of the typical season (it was June)"
Patient: "Yeah, I guess I wasn't sure it was; I've been spraying Lysol everywhere and it doesn't seem to be doing any good, and it says it k**ls the flu virus"
Me: "Well, that's something that could help disinfect the house and keep the virus from spreading"
Patient: "I guess, I just wish it didn't burn so much"
Me: "…what do you mean, 'it burns'?"
Patient: "You know, when I spray it up my nose it burns so bad"
Yep. My patient thought that since Lysol k**ls influenza the best way to nip it in the bud was to flush her sinuses with it like a saline spray. It did not work, for the record. The fact that I didn't immediately fall over laughing and instead seriously counseled her against ever doing that again is still the greatest feat of composure in my entire career.
TL;DR When the label on Lysol says "not for internal use", they mean it.
Nikole 6 months ago
For real! Years ago when I was sick at work with a sinus infection (but on antibiotics), my boss started crazily spraying Lysol in the air. It was awful, and Lysol is pretty much only effective when sprayed on surfaces. He was an arrogant áss.
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David 6 months ago
Nope ttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bleach-covid-19
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 6 months ago
Oh my god - I winced so hard my eyes are watering. How? Just how? Yikes!
TheMFKNXerdo 6 months ago
Oh, boy, are you gonna love this then: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lysols-vintage-ads-subtly-pushed-women-to-use-its-disinfectant-as-birth-control-218734/
Lyone Fein 6 months ago
She probably burned her on nasal passages and gave herself the infection.
JP 5 months ago (edited)
Legit question for those who can't immediately smell the word. (If you've ever been around it, you'll be able to.) It's a broad-band disinfectant that's been around for quite a while. Very effective, much like bleach, and for much the same reasons.Commonly used in hospitals, commercial settings, and kitchens & bathrooms across the US.Meaning: Something that one does NOT want up one's hoo-haa.
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Had a patient come into the ER with a makeshift bandage on his shin. He had fallen on rocks while hiking and left a three inch long, half inch deep gash in his leg. I go to pull the bandage off and as I’m peeling it away I notice the skin is completely black and there’s dark chunks of fungus falling out of the wound. It looked necrotic, like it had been left alone for a week. I look at this guy like he’s crazy as he tells me the wound is only a few hours old. He’s pretty proud as he explains that he created a makeshift poultice by chewing up leaves and moss, mixing it with river mud and stuffing it into his leg. That’s what all the black mossy stuff was.
Hint. Don’t do this.
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
To be sure, there are biological materials that can help heal wounds, but those granny women that could use them knew what they were doing. Clean macerated thyme, honey, clean mineral clay, etc. Not for amateurs!
Bec 6 months ago
Hubs has gotten back into skateboarding and we also rode bikes together sometimes. We put together some basic medical stuff like a can of saline spray and bandages, just in case we take a nasty spill somewhere.
Rick Murray 6 months ago (edited)
Maybe you ought to just be glad he didn't pour gunpowder in and ignite it to cauterise the wound... [hint: don't ever do that either, stuff that looks cool in movies *is* *not* *real*]
Krd 6 months ago
Actually, that does work. Only really advisable when you are days away from being properly treated. Just use the right gun powder.
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Lyone Fein 6 months ago
The purpose of the bandage is to keep all that stuff out of your wound!
Lena Flising 5 months ago
Never, ever just use what's around. There are NATURAL poisonous plants, fungi and animals. Natural does not necessarily mean healthy. People who have actually studied ancient medications wouldn't even to this to themselves, unless they were stuck in the middle of nowhere for a couple of months.
Another thing is head trauma. Gorfinkel said we should always get checked out if we experience confusion, loss of consciousness, or seizures.
"That's actually a big one because people don't understand at what time they actually need to go in because sometimes severe head trauma is something that cannot be seen from the outside."
If we're talking about individual signs, a bad one is persistent, unexplained fatigue.
"Fatigue is actually one of the most common signs of underlying cancer. Of course, most fatigue is not going to be caused by that. It could be caused by mental illness or mental struggle. It could be caused by a myriad of things, but it is important to get that checked. The same goes for unexplained weight loss."
#4
I work in the er at a trauma center.
This guy comes in with his little girl and says that she was bit in the face by the family German shepherd. I immediately take her back assuming that I need to control bleeding. What I encounter is a little girl with a laceration going all the way from over her left eye crossing her nose and mouth. It is not bleeding whatsoever and it seems to have a odd looking substance inside. So I obviously ask the dad what she got inside it.
He responds very proudly with, “ Ah yes, I packed the wound with tobacco from my cigarettes and super glue. “
Poor thing.
Bookworm 6 months ago
I'm hoping CPS was called. This idiot would think it's ok to leave her alone with the dog. After all "he didn't mean it".
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Melody 6 months ago
Apparently tobacco really does have healing properties, and something that's basically superglue is actually used sometimes on wounds by actual doctors. But definitely not tobacco from cigarettes and regular superglue from the store.
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Zaach 6 months ago
Cheese and crackers, got all muddy - who the eff thinks tobacco... I can't even
LizzieBoredom 6 months ago
Don't pack a wound with cheese and crackers either.
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Kit Black 6 months ago
Tobacco leaves are an antiseptic, and also aid in coagulation - aka, stops the bleeding. Which is why she didn't see the bleeding she expected. Now, obviously you're supposed to use clean leaves and not ground up c**p from a cigarette.
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Lena Flising 5 months ago
Super-glue?!? Well, this is why it probably says something about Keep away from the skin.
#5
During third year med school I was on a neonatology rotation. Lots of premature babies or high risk births.
We'd get "code green" paged to us for "please come to delivery room as able" and "code pink" paged for "please come to delivery room STAT". There was a pager that was the standard one that got paged for this, and usually it was whichever of us med students who was on call carrying it. Our job was then to get one of the Nurse Practitioners and possibly a second nurse and head over with the incubator etc. to take the baby and get him/her to the NICU.
About 6PM one evening as we're doing handover rounds, that pager goes off with a code pink. Then the NP's personal pager. Then the neonatologist's personal pager.
The next 10 minutes are a bit of a scramble and not particularly interesting from the point of view I had (as I was assigned to send pages to additional people and fetch things), but in short:
A teenage lady of local aboriginal descent had come in suffering from very premature labour (I want to say 20 weeks, but could have been 22 or so). She and her ex-boyfriend had recently gotten back together. He had discovered she was pregnant. Believing that the baby was not his, he attempted to abort the baby by inserting a bamboo stick and trying to "fish it out". She did not want said abortion so he attempted while she was asleep.
Baby and mother survived. Relationship did not.
Later testing showed the baby was indeed his for those wondering.
Katie White 6 months ago
This is horrible and going to be a lot more common in the US since abortions are so hard to get or near impossible in some cases. Desperate people are going to be trying end their own pregnancy, or having someone completely unqualified do it for them. Women will be dying. That is a fact.
CatD 6 months ago
Women are already dying. In Texas, since abortion was made illegal, the maternal mortality rate has gone up 56%.
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 6 months ago
I'd like to that the ex boyfriend was arrested and sent to jail, in reality I expect he didn't even get questioned.
nottheactualphoto 6 months ago
Why is the mother's "aboriginal descent" important to the story?
Marleina Hershberg 6 months ago (edited)
Attempted murder, a55ault. I hope he got what he deserved.
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
More an a*****t than a home remedy. Hope they called in the police.
#6
Neighbor came over to borrow a chainsaw. I noticed he had a thick bandage around his arm and asked him what happened? He said he fell out of a tree last week and cut his arm. I asked if he got stitches and he said he just wrapped it and his family is praying over it. About 4 days later I seen is wife and she said he was really sick and may have the flu? Come to find out he had septicemia and dying. he died a week later of kidney failure and sepsis.
Nikole 6 months ago
I feel like that’s the dichotomy in the U.S. right now, which is so infuriating, to say the least.
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Rose the Cook 6 months ago
Many years ago in Sydney a neighbor's child was full of bruises all over. Rather than go to the hospital they had their priest come and spray him with holy water frequently. By the time they woke up that it was something that needed a hospital he was diagnosed with leukemia and they lost him shortly after.
K Barnes 6 months ago
I feel like if you're an adult that refuses medical treatment for prayer and you die then you reaped what you sowed. Withholding medical treatment from a sick child is different and should be considered child abuse. I also feel like anti-vax parents whose children die of a preventable disease should be charged... but that's just me.
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kissmychakram 6 months ago
I wouldn't lend my chainsaw to anyone who exhibited such a profound lack of common sense.
E M Gallieshaw 6 months ago
😆Yep. It's the "with you" part that pulls them together.
Load More Replies... Bad Alchemy 6 months ago
Hint: Prayer is not medicine. Prayer is prayer, and medicine is medicine.
Then, there's a change in the stool habits or urination. According to Gorfinkel, these signals should not be ignored. But even your mood — which so many of us brush off — is really important as well.
For instance, "it's natural to have some thoughts of death. But if there are thoughts of s*****e or harming someone else, especially when those plans are concrete, in other words, there's a specific time or a very specific method in mind... These are reasons to go to an emergency room," the doctor said.
"A lot of these are impulsive thoughts. It's not that people genuinely want to die, although it can feel like that in the moment, but the key is to try to get help at that moment because that help is out there, and it's just a matter of trying to simplify your life."
#7
Saw a young child (about age 6-7) with a bruised swollen crooked forearm. He had fallen on the playground 3 days earlier and another parent there was a vet and had horse X-ray equipment in his truck. That parent took X-rays and told mom he was probably fine. So that was apparently good enough for mom and she didn't do anything for 3 days while he was up all night screaming in pain. Finally she took him in to my office and brought me the fuzzy copies of the X-rays which were useless and impossible to accurately interpret. I got him real X-rays and a nice cast for his broken arm.
Upstaged75 6 months ago
If you want to be stupid with your own life that's fine. But don't make your children suffer for your stupidity.
Nikole 6 months ago
My almost 75 year old mom broke her wrist BADLY on Tuesday. She needed surgery and they put a metal brace and pins in it, and she is being a brave little toaster. I can’t imagine a kid having to deal with that for THREE DAYS.
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Joe Reaves 6 months ago
And the vet for practicing medicine without a license I should hope.
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 6 months ago
I'm guessing this is USA and both the mum and the 'helpful' vet friend thought they would avoid unnecessary (and unnecessarily inflated) medical fees.
digitalin 6 months ago
My kid fractured his wrist at a roller rink and the staff gave me ice and said he was "probably fine " Luckily I took him to urgent care for x-rays ... who put a splint on him and said to call a doctor in the next few days, who put him in the schedule a couple days later, during which the fracture got worse. I should have gone straight to the ER, but I thought I was following medical advice at every step. I just needed better medical advice. (My kid got a cast and completely healed)
#8
I work in a pharmacy and one of the pharmacists that was there filling in that day told me that during his morning shift he had a woman call and tell them she pulled out her own IUD and wanted a painkiller recommendation. I cringed so much when he told me, as I had just gotten mine switched out that same day coincidentally and was still in quite a bit of pain from it.
Turns out, there are DIY instructions on pinterest on how to do this. This should go without saying but please don't do this. Go to a professional if you want it removed!!!
edit: In Canada so it's not like she couldn't afford a good doctor, as it's literally free!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I currently have an IUD and I think I just heard it scream. No, wait, that was me screaming in horror XD I have a really high pain tolerance, apparently (when I had it inserted, the OBGYN kept asking if I was okay because I WASN'T flinching/gasping/etc.) but I cannot FATHOM trying to pull that thing out of myself.
Lyoness 6 months ago
And yet if you want any kind of painkiller (local or oral) during insertion or removal it's an argument. Many ob/gyns still believe the cervix doesn't have nerve endings and cramping is minimal and therefore it doesn't hurt. Guess if these (historically male) Drs have ever had one?
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 5 months ago
I've never had an IUD, and I am now post-menopause, but my womb still screamed in pain when I read that. (....) I was just wondering how many of these are due to people just not being able to afford proper healthcare.
Christine M Quigley 6 months ago
I had an IUD inserted right after a D&C. Great idea. Scrape the inside of the uterus clean and slap a foreign body on there. ( another IUD). 2 yrs. later it's imbedded into my uterine wall and doc pulls it out w/ anesthetic or pain killer. I thought he turned my uterus inside out. Turned out the IUD was the largest size made at the time, placed in women who have had more than 9 kids. I had one. Maybe the hospital was having a sale on supersized IUD's? That happened over 50 yrs. ago & I cannot forget how horrible that pain was.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
The key word in your comment that you should probably look at is "doctors", as in, "medical professionals who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING and are actually LOOKING INSIDE OF YOU with the help of a speculum while they remove it".
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Robin Roper 6 months ago
How about this rephrase "Because, in Canada, medical care is covered by our taxes, going to a doctor to receive proper treatment no one has additional out of pocket costs."
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My grandpa thought a "leg discrepancy was causing my back pain, which was causing spasms." He put several pieces of cardboard in my shoes to try to even out my legs which were already even.
He also thinks black beans cure *everything*
My dad thought those pesky spasms was a pinched nerve, so he would take me to the chiropractor (his girlfriend) to get my neck c*****d when it happened.
Seizures, people. They were seizures.
Katie White 6 months ago
My doctor told me that going to a chiropractor is fine, and can help some people, but for gods sake don’t let them touch your neck!
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 6 months ago
I wonder what the censored word is? Guess it's a mystery that will never be cracked.
Michael Melfa 6 months ago
My dad used to call chiropractors Quackapractors. I don't think he was wrong.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
He was not. Chiropractic is a pseudoscience.
Load More Replies...People put off going to the hospital and take matters into their own hands more often than you might think. A study released by Co-op Health revealed that two-thirds of UK adults (66%) had chosen to delay or put off making an appointment when they actually needed one.
Two-fifths (38%) revealed they didn't feel their problem was bad enough to warrant an appointment, a third (30%) thought they would just get better without their GP's advice, and a quarter (24%) said they couldn't get an appointment that was convenient for them and just gave up.
When looking at the impact this had, a quarter (23%) admitted it resulted in their symptoms becoming much worse, a fifth (22%) claimed their illness lasted much longer than it should have, and a tenth (9%) had to go on antibiotics due to their decision to delay seeking medical advice.
#10
Not at all DIY, but one of my friend's dad back home was an ER doctor, and he had a patient come in with 5+ snake bites, mostly on his hands and arms. The patient said he got bit by a snake and tried to catch the snake so he could bring it in for the doctor to identify it. Luckily the snake wasn't venomous.
Ahnjunwan 6 months ago
It is actually not a stupid idea. In cambodia i met some farmers who did this. It makes indeed a difference if you are bitten by a malayan pit viper or a harmless kukri for example. Thing is, if you can not easily k**l it, leave it alone or you get bitten more what could be very bad in case of a krait. Nowaday most people have a phone with them, just make a picture, this would be the easiest for everybody. For reasons i can not understand, most doctors do not like it if you bring a living dangerous snake into the hospital 🤣
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
Black rat snakes bite aggressively when cornered, but are not venomous, and luckily, no venomous snakes look like them. But a bite is a bite, and you could still get an infection. Soap and water, folks!
CatD 6 months ago
I was bit by a Great Plains Rat Snake, and I've had kitten scratches worse than that.
Load More Replies... veryvenasaur 6 months ago
The noise I made at the sight of the picture just made my mom go check on the dog.
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
Can relate :) I get so scared by pictures of these creatures as well.
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Charity Angel 6 months ago
This is the ONE TIME where it would be sensible to get your phone and take pics or record a video instead of immediately calling for help.
#11
I work in oncology pharmacy. I had a patient die of totally treatable breast cancer because they decided to treat it with mistletoe instead of chemo. All because Suzanne Sommers did. Yeah. The thighmaster lady. Don’t take medical advice from the thighmaster lady.
Celtic Pirate Queen 6 months ago
Yeah, and don't take medical advice from former Playboy Bunnies (Jenny McCarthy's rant that vaccinations cause autism. They don't. The guy who wrote that report faked the results, which he later admitted.)
Lena Flising 5 months ago
Isn't mistletoe toxic? Ah, I see that European mistletoe is more toxic than American mistletoe. Being European, that might be why I immediately went "mistletoe - toxic". Not that American mistletoe is healthy; blurred vision, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting aren't fun, but it's less horrible than cell death and organ death.
When considering why people may avoid visiting their GP, two-fifths (41%) admitted they feel negative about going to the doctor. A third (29%) said visiting their GP makes them feel anxious or nervous, almost a fifth (17%) said it causes them to feel stressed, while a sixth (15%) said it makes them feel frustrated. A third (32%) of Brits revealed they don't even know the name of their own GP.
Some groups are more stubborn than others. A survey by Cleveland Clinic revealed that 72% of men would rather do household chores—like cleaning the bathroom or mowing the lawn—than go to the doctor.
Seventy-seven percent of those who are married or in a domestic partnership would rather go shopping with their wife or significant other than go to the doctor.
Twenty percent of men also admit they have not always been completely honest with their doctors.
#12
When I worked in ER my colleague had to see a guy with an ear problem. He had something stuck in his ear and had been trying to get it out. This wasn't a new thing, he'd been trying for some time.
Turned out, he had completely removed his tympanic membrane, and the "bits" that were stuck in his ear and that he was trying to pick out with cotton buds and hair clips were his ossicles.
Enjoy.
Upstaged75 6 months ago
OMG!!!!!!! That just gave me the heebie jeebies. And made me put my hands over my ears!
Katie White 6 months ago
This reminds me of the woman who was trying to get her contact out but was just peeling the lenses of her own eye.
#13
My dad had an abscess on his face. It was huge, about the size of a golf ball and horribly red. It kept getting bigger. My mom (a nurse) kept telling him to go to the doctor, but my dad was a ridiculous cheap a*s. One day when she was gone, we noticed that a big white head had formed on the abscess, and it was apparently ready to bust. My dad went out to the garage, got his shop vac, placed it over the white head, and proceeded to suck out the abscess. It worked surprisingly well and healed up after that nicely. Mom was still furious, though.
fly on the wall 6 months ago
Works well but be surall the boiling water is out of the bottle before you place it on the wound. Still have the scar 40 years later!
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My O My 6 months ago
The abcess? Much! When they burst the pain instantly decreases
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Earonn - 6 months ago
Being cheap with his health? And what did he use that money for in the end?
However, Gorfinkel said, "The beauty of a hospitalization is that it simplifies life tremendously so that all of a sudden a person doesn't have to think about all the mundane things that they normally have to do, but that adds up as stressors."
"Instead of doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, et cetera, the person is just concentrating on their well-being, and that's what's so great about hospitalization. It provides time to focus on getting better."
#14
Woman I know has a dog that is epileptic but was not willing to medicate the dog for some time. She kept trying "holistic remedies." One of which she informed me about was giving the dog all natural vanilla ice cream during a seizure to stop it. You know, because you should always try to put stuff in the mouth of a seizing animal.
It didn't work. The dog is on meds. Seizures are controlled now. Imagine that.
Gingersnap In Iowa 6 months ago
People do not do stupid s**t like this to animals and/or children.
Judy Reynolds 6 months ago
Previous dog was tiny, and started having hypoglycemic seizures. The vet said if it happened again, to smear honey or corn syrup onto his gums, so it would be absorbed faster. And to feed him anything he would eat, to try and prevent the seizures. I stress these were caused by him forgetting to eat, and having no fat reserves. We ended up giving him people food, knowing it was not as good for him as dog food, but at least he would eat it. He lasted another couple of years.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
That's legitimate, though - unlike the woman in OP's story! Pupper isn't going to choke on a small amount of thick syrup smeared onto his gums (and the mouth is made of mucous membranes, so those sugars/glucose gets absorbed into the body ricky-tick, which also helps.) Hypoglycemia can be life-threatening in young/small animals, so smearing a little Karo syrup on the gums is a way to help stabilize the animal. <3
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Lena Flising 5 months ago
Having epilepsy myself, this sounds borderline EVIL. During a seizure, one is not conscious and might choke on anything put in the mouth. Also, waking up from a seizure is Not Fun, so get proper medical treatments as soon as possible!
#15
This happened when I was still a med student doing a rotation in the ED. Patient comes in and is pretty vague about his actual complaint, something about head pain but he looks just fine sitting waiting to be seen. When I finally get to see him and ask him what actually happened, he removes the hat he was wearing and a chunk of skin about the size of my hand literally flaps off of his skull. This guy managed to basically scalp himself, and apparently it had been like that for 3 days. According to him it was caused by falling in his bathroom and hitting his head on the toilet. He had been previously duct taping it down or using the hat to hold the skin on, but it wasn't sticking well and that's when his wife convinced him to come to the hospital.
Zena 6 months ago
If you scalp yourself while doing it, please go to the doctor; don't rely on duct tape.
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C Hendrix 6 months ago
Sometimes I wonder how many men would survive if their wives didn't make them get medical attention. And why is it the degree of panic is in inverse proportion to the "manliness" of how one received the wound? Example: my father nearly severs his thumb using a corn knife to trim a tree. "It's nothing, I'll just put a Band-Aid on it" he says, blood flowing everywhere. My father decides to sew a missing button on his shirt himself and pricks his finger, and you never heard such wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Bookworm 6 months ago
Typically men have a shorter life expectancy than women. Think we all know why
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Remi (He/Him) 6 months ago
Hitting your head can make you irrational. Hope they checked for any brain damage
Katie White 6 months ago
This guy might get a pass, he could have been delirious from the trauma
TotallyNOTAFox 6 months ago
How did he handle all the blood? The scalp is very densely packed with blood vessels
#16
Guy had abdominal pain.
Drank a bunch of beer and tried to give himself an appendectomy with a steak knife on his front porch.
Wife calls 911 after she see him performing seppuko.
We roll on on scene and ask him if he want treatment/ride to the emergency department.
He looks up at us. Looks down and the mess he has made. Says, “ hang on lemme see if I can fix this first”
He then tries to cauterize the wound he made with his cigarette.
Realizing that that isn’t working and goes, “well s**t, let’s go, I guess”.
Pink kitty 6 months ago
Resourceful? Yes. Showed good judgement? No. Wonder what caused the abdominal pain? Imagine if he just needed a trip to the toilet...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I checked the original thread (because I was morbidly curious as well) and OP said, "No idea. Once the care has been transferred to the hospital setting it is out of our hands."
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Queencat523 6 months ago (edited)
perhaps he had some sort of mental episode which resulted in this action, or maybe something more than beer
#17
Anesthesiologist here; we had a patient come in for I&D of bilateral deltoid abscesses. He apparently had thoughts of being a body builder, but instead of lifting weights or knowing someone who could hook him up with some quality steroids, he decided to bulk up by using some protein powder at GNC...
...and mixing it with water, drawing it up into a syringe, and injecting 20-40cc daily directly into the muscle. If bulk was what he was going for, it definitely worked, temporarily. A rip-roaring localized infection makes you look plenty swole. They got almost a liter of pus mixed with liquified protein powder out of each deltoid.
This also wasn't the first time he'd been in for this problem.
Shark Lady 6 months ago
You can sort of get that the guy misunderstood how to use the powder, THE FIRST TIME, what I can't wrap my head around, is that even after major surgery he did it again.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I don't even give him a pass for "misunderstanding" how to use the powder the first time! XD Protein powder is almost ALWAYS flavored (chocolate, strawberry, peanut butter, etc.) and there's no way bro looked at the tub and didn't see "chocolate" on the front of it XDDD
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Atom Bohr 6 months ago
We like to laugh at stupid, but this is body dysmorphia. That said, I don't know what GNC means...
Kalikima 6 months ago
It's stands for General Nutrition Center, it's a vitamin and supplement store. My ex-husband used to manage one.
Load More Replies... Charity Angel 6 months ago
Incision & drainage - cutting into the infected area to let out all the gunk.
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White bread soaked in milk placed on an armpit abscess to draw out the infection. Needed an I&D and a couple weeks of IV antibiotics by the time he got to us.
Either that or the guy who crashed his motorbike, scraped his leg all to hell, and then decided the best course of action was to self-cauterize it on the tailpipe.
Vinny DaPooh 6 months ago
For the patients? Or for the doctor having to deal with their stupidity?
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The sound that just came out of my mouth at the mental picture woke all the restless spirits in my country.
Kim Shannon 6 months ago
What??! "Man, I really scraped the heck out of myself. A third degree burn will heal it!"
Lena Flising 5 months ago
That white bread soaked in milk sounds like an all-you-can-eat-buffet for the bacteria in the wound.
#19
Adult patient had gas and poked a hole in his belly button with basically a knitting needle to release it.
Edit: it didn't work, he actually came in for the ensuing infection in his belly button.
Uncle Panda 6 months ago (edited)
This is a veterinarian technique for cattle and goats suffering unreducible bloat. The gasses in the stomach press into the diaphragm so they can't breathe and suffocate. *The recommended procedure*, if all else fails, is to puncture the stomach by going through the side with a tube to let the gas out. I was prepared to do this to a goat when the vegetable oil finally worked, lubed the system, and things progressed naturally.
Uncle Panda 6 months ago
Which was a huge relief. I really did not want to stab the goat.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 6 months ago
I mean, sometimes when I have a really bad gas bubble I wish I could stab it
Charity Angel 6 months ago
Ironically, during laparoscopic abdominal surgery (keyhole), they use the belly button to inflate the abdomen, so it's easier to move around in. Gas goes in there, gas comes out there at the end.
#20
As a child I got really bad sunburn. The person looking after me coated my sunburn in baby oil to help it heal, and sent me back out into the sun.
I realised when I was older why my mum went nuts.
Queencat523 6 months ago
Best home remedy for sunburn is Noxzema directly on the skin. The Noxzema draws the heat out. Its messy but omg it works.
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
Our home remedy for sunburn was vinegar on the burn and staying out of the sun until it healed. .
Heir of Durin 6 months ago
Same here. The smell of vinegar makes me sick to this day.
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Christine M Quigley 6 months ago (edited)
"Yeah, put butter on that burn to hold the heat in & cause more skin damage.'
#21
A man who'd accidentally sliced his leg open at his workplace. He obviously figured that as surgeons use staples to close wounds, he'd cut out the trip to hospital and DIY. With an ordinary desk stapler. Arrived in ED with a pus filled wound with the odd discoloured staple hanging off it some days later.
Robin Roper 6 months ago
They drive cars and vote. No wonder we are were we are in the US.
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Ms.GB 6 months ago (edited)
I have a story that you probably won't believe. It's gonna sound like I made it up but it's 💯 true. I had a bf in high school who was originally from Germany. His parents moved to the US when he was a small child. His step-dad was this really tough, kinda scary german dude. He owned a car repair business that worked on German automobiles. Anyways one day His dad was whittling something...a pipe or something with a really sharp knife in his lap. I think you know where this is going but long story short he cut himself so badly that his testicle was hanging out of the sack. He then proceeded to drive himself to his shop where he had a sterile needle and thread in his desk for some reason and sewed it up himself. When his wife and my bf looked at him horrified and asked him "Why!?" He said "I'm not gonna pay a Dr. and bunch of money for something I can fix myself."
Deep One 6 months ago
I have my own surgery kit for simple sutures and minor repairs. I'm retired with no medical insurance so I can't afford an unnecessary trip to the E.R.
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So sugar can be used to help heal certain types of wounds. A patient I saw had missed an appointment with part of their care team where they get their bandage changed. I noticed what appeared to be oozing around the edges of the bandage. Asked my patient about it, offered to change it for them (we didn't typically do that in our clinic), they said yes. I go get fresh bandages and what not, take the old one off and it's just sticky and stringy (picture the slo-mo shots of caramel being pulled apart) and it smelled.
To be fair, most wounds smell, but this was different. I finally asked them what they used to change their bandage since I knew it wasn't discharge. Maple syrup... They used maple syrup.
Edit: RIP my inbox. I tried to respond to some, but dang lol. Here's some answers to some common questions.
Yes, honey (certain varieties) can be used with wound healing so it's possible they confused it with this but I don't believe that's what happened here. Can't disclose more because HIPAA (the thing that doesn't seem to exist on shows like Grey's).
No, I'm not sure it was pure maple, they said it was the "good stuff in a glass jar" but who knows. Either way, it wasn't sterile and this wasn't a simple wound.
Proper sugar dressings can be used on various types of wounds, but it's not just pouring some table sugar on it so don't go trying this at home folks. Necessary disclaimer 😉
No, it wasn't thousand island dressing...
There is medical grade honey, studies show that it and medical grade sugar can actually be better for some wounds than antibiotics.
No, I could not eat pancakes for a while.
Honey dressings typically are less painful to administer than sugar because of the lack of crystallization. But that also means the sugar is better at cleansing... Your wound care specialist can determine which is the better route.
Last Edit:
Since this seems to be an issue now: No HIPAA isn't just saying the patient's name. It can also be saying enough that could then cause them to be identified. Up to this point I have not revealed anything that would link this story to this patient. Revealing more to the backstory would, in my opinion. Considering I do not want to out this person (as a human being) or cause a willful HIPAA violation (as a, now former, professional), I won't go into the backstory, even with details changed as some have requested. Had to find the exact wording but this is directly from HIPAA
"The term 'individually identifiable health information' means any information, including demographic information collected from an individual, that-- iii) with respect to which there is a reasonable basis to believe that the information can be used to identify the individual."
I prefer to err on the side of caution with that. But thanks for all your comments, it's been fun seeing everyone's stories about home remedies :).
Auntriarch 6 months ago
"No I couldn't eat pancakes for a while" I really shouldn't be laughing but...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
"Sugar dressings, particularly granulated sugar or sugar pastes, have been used for wound care, especially in resource-limited settings, due to their availability and cost-effectiveness. They work by creating a high osmotic environment that inhibits bacterial growth and draws moisture from the wound, promoting a cleaner environment for healing." HOWEVER, the article I drew this from specified to NOT use "over the counter"/normal grocery-store sugar, as it is NOT STERILE. There is medical-grade honey (which IS very effective on certain wounds) and medical-grade sugar as well. Your plastic squeezy-bear of honey and your 10-lb bag of granulated white sugar are NOT intended for medical/wound care!
CatD 6 months ago
Especially since a lot of honey is adulterated these days.
Load More Replies... Mark Alexander 6 months ago
Upvoted for defining III. In non-medical terms, at least in the USA, it's PII: " Personally Identifiable Information." It's protected by law and that's what the lawsuits are trying to prevent Musk from getting.
Lena Flising 5 months ago
IF you want to use honey, make sure it actually IS honey. A study was done here in Sweden on imported honey, and almost all of them contained something other than pure honey.
ROSESARERED 6 months ago
My sister uses honey on cuts, I can't tell her to stop. It's the same honey they use on their toast etc, not medical grade,
#23
Am a dental student where we see mouths in pretty awful condition. One guy came into the emergency clinic with teeth half rotted off from decay and told me he has been putting gummy bears in the holes to make it less sharp on his tongue....
Tropical Tarot 6 months ago
Certainly didn't help. Leaving sugar in your mouth will accelerate decay.
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THC gummies would probably be more effective. Or not, but you wouldn't care.
#24
I had a guy come in for coughing and shortness of breath for the past few months. His lungs sounded like absolute s**t. Got a chest xray that looked horrible, so I did a CT scan. Radiologist called it the worst case of necrotizing pneumonia he'd ever seen. Dude had like a 15% functional lung tissue left. The patient then mentioned things had been worse after he started using a new "breath freshener" spray....
He whipped out one of those BluntEffects concentrated air freshener bottles, supposed to cover up weed smell. Labeled Not For Internal Use. Apparently he had been using it like Binaca spray, and had already gone through 3 bottles.
Mreoww 6 months ago (edited)
Shoutout to the time I developed a sore throat and hacking cough, kept taking ibuprofen for my period cramps, drank some lemon soda thingy ‘cuz my mom thought citrus would help me, ignored all my symptoms and went to school because I had to write my final exams, and then developed pneumonia and had to be admitted. It was a crazy week. Took a month or two to fully recover.
nottheactualphoto 6 months ago
It was; I don't know if it's still made. It's a breath freshener. It was a small aerosol spray, a little larger than a lipstick. You were supposed to spray a couple of hits into your mouth. It had a very loud mint flavor, and the advertising slogan was "the Binaca blast!"
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#25
My step father thought he had an boil of some sort on his arm a few years ago. So he did what any middle aged dad would do, cut the sucker open and poured hydrogen peroxide on it. Turns out it wasn’t a boil but a form of skin cancer. Also turns out that hydrogen peroxide doesn’t do much to help with melanoma. After a lot of one sided discourse he went to the doctor to get it checked and treated. He’s now cancer free!
Katie White 6 months ago
I have heard of people cutting into their skin cancer and causing it to metastasize
Charity Angel 6 months ago
It can happen with any solid mass cancer - any cell that breaks off can be picked up by the blood stream and swept elsewhere in the body. It's why surgeons take away healthy parts of tissue too, rather than risk damaging the tumour. Skin lesions are just more accessible to the idiots who would try to DIY.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
We now know that we DO NOT pour hydrogen peroxide onto open wounds/cuts! >:(
Anna Drever 6 months ago
My father had a skin cancer that looked like a boil. Fortunately he had it professionally removed. Unfortunately he had to pay for it as the NZ health system while free is severely underfunded and he would have been waiting for months just to see a specialist for a consult let alone get the actual op.
#26
Dental student here.
We had a patient who declined a much needed cleaning saying he could do it just as well a home with a scalpel. Didn’t brush his teeth but every few weeks he would go at the accumulated plaque and tartar with a scalpel.
Same patient also insisted we do a procedure without local anesthetic. He was an amateur boxer and was « building up his pain tolerance. »
He also told us he smoked 20 blunts a day and only drank coke. We could tell.
JP 6 months ago
Search around and if you're lucky you'll find a local dentist who knows how to use a dental laser. Had a relatively large molar filling done, *zero* pain, with no anesthetic whatsoever. The rapid pulsing messes with the nerve transmission, so you don't feel anything. Cried when he retired; was worth his weight in gold for this very nervous patient.
whiterabbit 6 months ago
I used to be a dental assistant and the amount of people who prefer not to be numbed would surprise you. We did countless fillings and crown preps without local, even had someone ask us to pull a tooth without it but my Dr said no
Nikole 6 months ago
I never used it for fillings because I was more disturbed about having a needle in my gums. I was doing great with the pain tolerance for like 20 years, until I needed a root canal…
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Judy Reynolds 6 months ago
I prefer to have small fillings done without anesthetic because when I was a child, the anesthetic they used caused me to vomit about 5 minutes after the shot. That dentist told my mother to take me and my three sisters to another dentist. The new dentist asked if I wanted to try the next filling without the shot, and that worked soooo much better!!!
#27
I am not a medical professional, but my father in law had severe skin cancer. He basically had an open sore on his back for several years that bled and bled, we never knew about it until one day we saw a pancake sized crater through his shirt. Went to the hospital finally and they basically said he has cancer throughout his whole body at this point.
His response was he thought it was a cut that wouldn't heal and put gauze and Neosporin on it.
EDIT: Since folks are curious - yes he is still alive but they didn't give him much time left, they managed to treat the wound but the cancers spread into his organs and bones. The sad part is it could've been avoided if he just went to the doctor years prior, but that is unfortunately the common mindset in a lot of older folks.
HelyerT 6 months ago
What do they do in America for any medical issue and you have no insurance or money, do you just die?
Random User 6 months ago (edited)
If you go to the hospital you'll still get seen/treated, as hospitals cannot turn you away or demand payment in advance. But you'll still end up with a massive bill afterwards, and different states have different laws if you don't pay. Some people avoid going in the first place or opt out of major treatment to avoid the ensuing bill, which can be life-threatening.
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winterwidow87 6 months ago (edited)
My grandma did something very similar. She was a very tough woman from southern Italy who was used to working in the fields, and then going back home and taking care of the housework since she was the only woman in the family (her mum died when she was little and she only had her dad and brothers left. Housework was on her because it was considered "a woman's job"). She died of ovarian cancer when i was 5 years old, because she didn't get checked out when she started feeling unwell, and by the time she did the cancer had already spread. I still miss her a lot, we were together for a brief time but she was like a second mum to me.
Cecilie Hammershøy 6 months ago
Older folks and people living in countries where medical isn't covered by taxes.
Beachbum 1 month ago
So sad. My mom never wanted to go to the doctor either. Finally made an appointment, but when I saw her that day, I think it was like 4 days before the appointment, I said we need to go to the ER. She finally agreed. We had 30 days before pancreatic cancer took her. I know eventually she would have passed from it, but I think if she would have gone sooner, we would have had more time with her
#28
Worked in pediatrics for a few years and we had this one family come in with a kid who was burned by one of those microwave ramen soups. They put duct tape on the now blistered skin to keep it from popping in the car.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
They did the wrong thing, but they maybe weren't *totally* stupid and crazy. Cling film is recommended as a first aid treatment for burns - hey, they both come on a roll... https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/burns-and-scalds/treatment/
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I've also heard of duct tape as being an "effective" treatment for wart removal, so maybe the family was like "blisters are on the skin. warts are also on the skin. SAME THING!" D:
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Huddo's sister 6 months ago
I came home one night when I was living with my brother and found blood on the kitchen floor. My brother had cut himself (not sure what with) and went to the bathroom, where he discovered we didn't have any bandaids or anything, so he put something over the cut (maybe tissue, though I don't remember anything getting stuck in it like a tissue would) and then wrapped gaffa tape over it.
Uncle Panda 6 months ago
I hope they used a gentle adhesive solvent rather than the 3 Stooges approach.
#29
Infections of the skin of the external ear canal are common and treatable. Hard to get to tho. A dairy farmer who didn't have time to see us got a long rubber tube that he used for something to do with cows (not sure what), fed it into his ear canal, then poured cow antibiotics down the tube. He came in when it didn't work. Seeing a doctor in the Uk is free....
Hugh Crawford 6 months ago
Poster means it won't cost them their life savings or the whole farm to get a check-up. Unlike you-know-where
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#30
Not me, but my mom. Had a gentleman walk himself into the ED one day after he tried to give himself a vasectomy with an animal neutering kit he bought on the internet. When she asked him why, he told her that his wife wanted to have a sixth kid and it was too expensive to pay a doctor to do it and how hard could it be to DIY.
Edit: I now know that it's relatively cheap to get a vasectomy, which makes this guy even dumber.
I also now know there's more than one way to neuter an animal, thanks guys.
Edit 2: I feel I should share, he tried to cut his testicles out essentially. And yes, they did indeed put them back in the sack and he could still make babies.
Upstaged75 6 months ago
Thank goodness this person doesn't want to father any additional children. The world already has too many idiot genes floating around.
Beef Brisket 6 months ago
It was not that long ago that some doctors wouldn't perform a vasectomy unless the guy had a written note from his wife giving permission. Either way, I don't understand while they didn't give this guy his vasectomy while they were in there.
TotallyNOTAFox 6 months ago
It was an emergency treatment while the vasectomy is a service
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karen Young 6 months ago
I have known more than one somewhat intelligent grown ups that think a vasectomy is getting your balls cut off. Crazy, but I guess the details aren't really known.
Sara Frazer 6 months ago
Bruh I'm pretty sure a vasectomy is cheaper than one month of caring for a baby
Don Adams 6 months ago
He wanted a vasectomy (cutting the gas deferens, the tube that transports s***m from the testicles to the prostate), not a castration (completely removing the testicles). That said, they could have disconnected them at the time, then "dropped them in the sack).
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#31
Had a patient come to the ER for a cough. We did a chest X-ray that caught a little something in the abdomen/pelvis. Did a pelvic X-ray. Long story short she stuck a shot glass up her v****a for “birth control” left it up there long enough for it to calcify and we had to surgically remove it.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
It didn't. Re-read the sentence: "We did a chest X-ray that caught a little something in the abdomen/pelvis." Cough was completely unrelated. The chest x-ray just *happened* to catch "something weird-looking" in the abdominal area.
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Sara Frazer 6 months ago
I hope that in the process of removing it she was also rendered infertile because the world does not need that stupidity to multiply; there's enough idiots around lately anyway...
#32
Am a doctor, but didn’t see this first hand unfortunately. However, my friend in ED saw a young 17 year old boy that came in with “personal” trauma and mild blood loss. She triaged him, taking him to a room with his parents and asked what he’d come in with. His mom turned around and said, “ go on, tell the lady what you did”. He then proceeded to tell her that he tried to circumcise himself with scissors for religious reasons as he hadn’t been circumcised when he was younger, but had to stop half way due to pain. Eventually the shame had grown enough that he had to tell his parents who immediately took him to ED.
Some antibiotics and a revision by urology later and he was able to be sent home.
#33
Six words: ESSENTIAL. OILS. DO. NOT. CURE. CANCER
ETA: for some people, essential oils can do minor things such as calm headaches or reduce nausea. I’m not sure how much of this is a placebo, however, so if you want to try it TALK TO A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL (who does not sell essential oils, because duh). That being said, do not ingest EOs. Do not give them to children. Do not use them around pets. And if you aren’t sure whether or not you should be using them: when in doubt, go without.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
MANY essential oils are TOXIC TO PETS. Do not use them in humidifiers/nebulizers if you have pets - the oil molecules will adhere to the animal's fur and they will eventually ingest them when they groom themselves. Do not burn incense for the same reason. Do not apply tea tree oil to a dog/cat - tea tree oil is TOXIC to both species. Even citrus oil is toxic to animals. Please, please do a 10-second Google search to see what plants/oils are toxic to animals before you use them around/on pets.
She who must not be named 6 months ago
This needs to be top comment! My Dad was given a box of essential oils and I'm so glad we both decided to Google first, 4 out of 6 in the box were highly toxic to dogs so my Dad disposed of them all straight away.
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Sue User 6 months ago (edited)
I use them to calm me. Smelling lavender or eucalyptus is calming to me. Other vapors ( incense, plugins, candles ) cause issues with my weak lungs.
Jackie Lulu 6 months ago
That's OK, but using any EO full strength on your skin or ingesting it is a very bad idea. Some are poisonous to humans and animals!
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 6 months ago
I tried essential oils when I was a teenager for my migraines- turns out peppermint oil actually triggers them, and I'm allergic to lavender, ti tree and eucalyptus! The others I tried I wasn't a fan of the smell of and they did nothing to help my migraines. Thankfully when I was in my 20s my migraines became much less severe.
Jackie Lulu 6 months ago (edited)
The current trend to add essential oils to common products (for example, baby cream with lavender) can give people the idea that they are safe in any form. Not a good idea.
Susan Raskin 5 months ago
Essential oil use can be deadly if not used properly. Medical certification in safe use and indications for use is a must. Children have died from ingesting E.O of peppermint (it closes the trachea and the go into respriatory arrest. Don'y mess with essential oils unless you have proper scientific training.
#34
My mom once melted Vick’s Vapor Rub into my tea because she thought that would help my cold. It didn’t.
Susan Reid Smith 6 months ago
I put it on a shower head sometimes if I have a bad cold. The medicated hot shower helps me feel better.
Zena 6 months ago
Yes, but I assume you didn't drink the water coming from the coated shower head.
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Joanne Kinney 6 months ago
I worked with elderly people and many of them swore that when they were young and had a cold, their moms would make them eat a teaspoon of Vicks vapor rub to help them feel better. Not something I would ever be tempted to try! They swore it helped.
Rick Murray 6 months ago
When I was little and poorly mom used to rub it onto my chest, and then tie mittens onto my hands so I couldn't put my fingers into the stuff and then rub my eyes. I don't know whether to be more annoyed that she thought I'd do such a thing, or that fact that she was probably right...😂
karen Young 6 months ago
Yep as a child rubbed on chest and would wear one of dad's old t shirts.
Jackie Lulu 6 months ago
My grandmother made some nasty tea and made me drink it and lie under a red heat lamp to "dry up the cold".
Deep One 6 months ago
I have chronic chest and nasal congestion. (Have ever since I was a kid.) I now use a CPAP machine when I sleep and use a different brand similar to Vick's Vapor Rub in my nose pillows. It helps a lot! But compare the active ingredients between brands, Vicks is nowhere as strong as it used to be.
#35
A little late to this thread but have a weird one. A patient was told by her doc that she had low magnesium and should consider supplements. Not uncommon. Instead of getting Mg supplements, she ate an entire tub of “homeopathic volcanic ash” and completely destroyed her electrolyte imbalance and ended up in ICU. We admitted her as a pharmaceutical o******e so Poison Control automatically follows up with you. It was hard to explain to them.
Edit. It was probably naturopathic, not homeopathic. I don’t know enough about specific differences. Think of a tub of protein power, but volcanic ash. Her husband brought it in for the poison control report. You were supposed to mix a scoop in water for the health benefits. She ate the whole tub and had a seizure and wrecked her kidneys. The activated charcoal/volcanic ash vomit that was all over her when she came from emerg was a b***h to clean up.
Robin Roper 6 months ago
It's not like magnesium supplements are hard to find or expensive - good lord!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I worked in the vitamins/supplements dept of a grocery store for two and a half years during the pandemic. It infuriated me (as a science-minded person who believes in science and medicine) that we had an entire aisle of homeopathic "cures". We also had bundled sage, Palo Santo sticks, and (no joke) "healing crystals" right next to the actual stuff like iron supplements, calcium, multivitamins, etc. We also sold these GIGANTIC bottles of liquid bentonite clay (yes, people drink liquid clay as a "medical" treatment.) People would come in with gout, but wanted to take tart cherry pills instead of seeing a doctor. People would come in saying they "had parasites" and would buy "parasite cleanse" pills that contained toxic ingredients like wormwood and black walnut. People bought bottle after bottle of "detox"/"liver cleanse" pills (at least those mostly contained stuff that wasn't outright toxic.) Our mag supplements were super cheap. All the woo-woo stuff was expensive af.
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Kit Black 6 months ago
I am absolutely amazed and impressed at her personal fortitude... have you ever had to be in the er with a child who needed to take activated charcoal because they swallowed something they weren't supposed to???? You're pretty much only trying to get like a spoonful in the kid and it's still a freaking nightmare - are they sure this lady doesn't have pica?
Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
We were given activated coal when we had diarrhea when we were kids (not very often). Probably that was a smaller dose though.
Load More Replies... winterwidow87 6 months ago (edited)
Yep it was probably nathuropatic because homeopathic "remedies" are basically sugar and water, and wouldn't do any harm. They don't do good either except for placebo effect of course.
Lena Flising 5 months ago
"Electrolyte imbalance" sounds mundane enough, but that is life-threatening, very urgent! Maybe you've heard that anything is lethal, if taken excessively? Drinking too much water will k**l you by electrolyte imbalance.
#36
Had a patient try and buy syringes from my Pharmacy for injecting the dog. With what, you ask? Gatorade.
“My wife’s dog has been really lethargic the last couple of days so we were going to try and give it some fluids in case it’s dehydrated.”
The instinct for some would be that it was just an IV d**g user seeking clean needles but I can assure you this gentleman thought his logic was sound and in fact intended to murder his wife’s dog injecting it with sugary Powerade.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I have had to give a number of my pets subcutaneous fluids due to various issues (one kitty had CRF/CKD - basically kidney failure, and another kitty had wet FIP and needed extra fluids) and I cannot IMAGINE putting ANYTHING under my pets' skin that wasn't Lactated Ringer's solution or sodium chloride solution. I wouldn't even "inject" a pet with water, as I know that's also not the proper stuff for hydrating an animal subcutaneously/intravenously.
geezeronthehill 6 months ago
That amount of sugar right into the circulatory system would probably knock the dog out. Saw this in a human one time. Bar bet. Don't ask.
Lena Flising 5 months ago
Fluids, yes. But why do it straight into the bloodstream? Blood goes straight into the heart; do you want Gatorade in there?
#37
Still a student (audiology), but I had a very elderly patient come in with broken hearing aids. He said they were dirty so he washed them in the sink with soap and water.
Protip: Hearing aids are not water proof. Yes, he was warned of this when he first got the hearing aids.
Thankfully he was still under warranty with the company and they were kind enough to let him slide on this one, otherwise that would've been ~$4500 down the drain.
Zena 6 months ago
I could forgive a "very elderly" person for making a mistake like this; I'm glad the company did, too.
Duh 6 months ago
The company probably has a high enough profit margin that they didn't see a financial loss.
Load More Replies... Dzessa Golden 6 months ago
It’s almost as if they don’t want people to be able to hear…
Load More Replies... #38
Oh the stories I have even as a student.
One particular one that stuck with me was a lady who came into the hospital with back pain. Seeing as A&E is usually packed, back pain isn't considered to high on the list.
When she was finally seen to, we discovered the source of the pain. She had tried to remove a carcinoma from her back that spanned from her neck to the bottom of the ribs. It had gotten infected and to top that off, she had decided to use homeopathy to treat her cancer.
How she had neglected to mention that or had survived so long still surprises me.
Charity Angel 6 months ago
You have to rely on the patient's report of their condition. If she says back pain, the medical staff are going to assume she means back pain.
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Paramedic here. Once had to explain to a family that putting lemon juice in the eyes of an unconscious patient isn't an approved treatment method.
And no, it didn't work. (It was an interesting moment when I had to explain why his eyes hurt).
Lene 6 months ago
Had some friends that once wanted to test if vodka or red wine hurt the most in the eyes. Do they poured a drop of vodka onto one eye and wine on the other. Turns out vodka hurts more 🤷♀️
Charity Angel 6 months ago
I would have just automatically assumed that. If the question had ever occurred to me in the first place. Normally I would applaud a curious mind and scientific assessment, but this is just dumbassery at its finest.
Load More Replies... Bi.Felicia 6 months ago
Reminds me about a house party that I attended, as a teen, ~16-17. Some poor kid, who was passed out drunk, ended up with more than just a hangover. He had quite a few drawings all over his face, drawn with permanent marker, of course. But these idiots thought it was a great idea or it was so funny to put hot sauce on this kids eyes/eyelids. 🤦🏻♀️
#40
Vet student here. We once had a family that came in when their dog ate a bag of Easter chocolate. We had to induce vomiting, but first asked if they had tried anything at home. They said they read online to make the dog eat a bunch of salt to make it throw up. This poor dog had a bag of salt repeatedly poured down it's throat before he came in.
Pro-tip: If your dog ever eats chocolate and you panic, have him ingest about 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide. He'll vomit out liquid/frothy chocolate, so put him in the bathtub immediately after. Save your dog. Save your carpet. Please take him to the vet also! The Hydrogen Peroxide is just in the event that you can't rush him in!
Edit: During my emergency rotation 2 weeks ago, we were told by the attending veterinarian that 30ml (2 tablespoons) of hydrogen peroxide is safe to administer orally in case of an emergency. I understand that there are contradictory opinions on this and not all vets may recommend it. Again, it's meant to be done in case of emergency; you should still take your dog to the vet! I'm not licensed to give medical advice, which I thought was clear when I said I was a vet student.
Ace 6 months ago
I really think the hydrogen peroxide "Pro-tip" advice here is bad, especially as they don't bother to mention any dilution. Please do not do this!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
If one cannot get their dog to an emergency vet ASAP (e.g., they live rurally and the nearest emergency vet is hours away) then it's still probably better to give hydrogen peroxide rather than let the dog just die of theobromine toxicity. One can soak some bread in the hydrogen peroxide, or dilute it with water, and administer it to the dog, to minimize the potential of damage to the digestive tract. One should STILL take the doggo to the vet, even if it does vomit, but at least the theobromine will not be sitting in the dog's digestive tract and poisoning it the entire time. I completely get what you're saying, but if I lived in a place where I couldn't get to an emergency vet ASAP, I'd rather risk diluted hydrogen peroxide rather than watch my dog die of theobromine toxicity. Merck (a pharmaceutical company that also has a veterinary medicine department) lists hydrogen peroxide as a potential treatment, though it prioritizes medical emetics over OTC treatments.
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Cee Cee 6 months ago (edited)
Fellow dachshund owner I see out walking took his dog to the vet. She'd snuck upstairs and scoffed a box of Xmas chocolate liqueurs. Comes home from vet. Dog hadn't learnt from her experience nor had the owner. Back to the vet. Mad Max found abandoned grapes on a walk. Off to the vet we go. £55 lighter we go home. He was very subdued for the rest of the day.
Judy Reynolds 6 months ago
My beagle was not subdued after he came home from the vet after getting into the raisins. But he still tries to eat anything that is not nailed down. (He wears a muzzle when we walk, to slow him down enough that I can try and get the garbage out of his mouth.)
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Rachel Pelz 6 months ago
Just wondering: is hydrogen peroxide something people generally have at home in the US? (It isn't in Germany.)
Squirrelly Panda 6 months ago
Yes. Cheap, easy to buy, useful for some things. Unfortunately, people are idiots, so use it in ways they should not.
Load More Replies... Deep One 6 months ago (edited)
We were lucky, we had a dog that ate my sister's halloween candy two years in a row. The first time, we figure he jumped from the bed to the top of the dresser. The second time we have no clue how a German Schnauzer could get to the top of a 6' 6" bookcase. He either scaled it or was one heck of a jumper. In both instances he ate a fair percentage of his body weight in chocolate and other sweets. Luckily he came through it OK and still lived to the rip old age of 19.
Earonn - 6 months ago
I don't think chocolate would k**l the dog quickly enough to require an "emergency solution". Source: our dog was fed chocolate by the patrons of our pub and occasionally ate a whole chocolate bar. It was the 70s, we didn't even know. Neither did the dog, she lived (albeit overweight) to 13 years. No, I'm not defending feeding dogs chocolate, hell, don't do it! Just saying that apparently they don't keel over within minutes. Aaanyway, I'm just a stranger on the internet. ask your vet!
Dark Pigeon 6 months ago
if you are not able/allowed to give advise, don't do it! Now some idiots will pour down Hydro peroxide into their pets.. damned
margaret carradus 5 months ago
My dog might have pinched a couple of raisins. We decided to go to the vet down the rough twisty road. She parted with her stolen goods long before we got there.
Squirrelly Panda 6 months ago
There is a huge difference between giving 2 tablespoons to a wolf hound versus a chihuahua. Get your dog to a vet.
#41
When I was unemployed, I gored my shin in a gardening accident. I couldn't afford to go bankrupt until I could get insurance, so I cleaned out the 1" deep gash myself, and wondered what I could do to stitch it up. I didn't have floss or any sterile thread, so on a crazy hunch, I used crazy glue.
I can't believe it worked. I had to cut open the wound a few times to clean it out and prevent infection, and the scar is now just a dark pigmentation. I expected a horrible scar.
Pisses me off I had to resort to that, but I had no job for a 2 month period (laid off with no warning). Had to go off all my meds, too, and I have diabetes and a bad heart condition. F*****g miracle I didn't die.
0/10, even with rice. Would not do again.
Upstaged75 6 months ago
Crazy glue isn't really that different from surgical glue. I know they use it sometimes with athletes.
Kim Kermes 6 months ago
At least use butterfly bandages or tape so you don't have to cut it open. If you insist on stitching yourself, vodka should sanitize the thread. I'm so glad I have the VA (for now).
Brian Droste 6 months ago
Actually crazy glue or one off the other glue like that was created during the I belive it was the Vietnam War to put o soldiers wounds to keep them close until they could get them to a a med vac or army hospital. But it was a wasn't a permanent solution. So you did right in a way. Plus you opened the wound to clean it out. Not like you did it once and let it go. That would have been much worse.
Daune Tullina 6 months ago
I once ripped open the skin between my ring and pinky fingers bad enough to need stitches. No insurance at the time, so I cleaned it up, super glued the edges together and taped the ring and pinky finger together at the first knuckle. I had to be at work as a waitress in an hour and it was too late to call in. Luckily it healed fine and I just have a scar. 'Murica!
Deep One 6 months ago
I was joking with a friend and stamped down. I caught the outside of my ankle on a metal frame that scooped away a piece of flesh about three inches long and and one and a half inches wide, all the way down to the tendon. I could see the shiny white sheath at the bottom of the wound. I was a broke college student (1985 I think) so I couldn't go to the doctor. I rinsed it out, sprayed it with an antiseptic (I don't remember what, only that it hurt like heck!) and put some gauze and medical tape on it. I changed the dressing everyday and it healed fine, though it did leave a scar.
Pollymere 6 months ago
My DH tends to treat minor cuts with super glue. His thumb got infected so he got antibiotics. Which the bugs were resistant to. We just kept hoping the red streaks wouldn't go any further whilst waiting for different antibiotics to kick in. He was incredibly lucky to not end up in hospital or to lose his thumb. He is now known as mouldfinger though...
Joanne Kinney 6 months ago
Whenever I get a cut on my fingers, I used crazy glue instead of a bandaid. It actually works really well. Once the glue dries, you forget you have it. By the time the glue comes off the cut is healed. I did try the liquid bandaid but that hurt so much I never used it again.
Jackie Lulu 6 months ago
That liquid bandage works really great, but it's not for deep wounds.
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 5 months ago
For the umpteenth time; maybe he's American and can't afford basic healthcare? I don't think we should see the US of A as a first world nation any more.
#42
This patient wasn't one I saw, but my brother worked for a PCP in our hometown.
There was a guy who had a rare condition that required bloodletting, but he didn't have the money to afford the treatment as often as he would need it. Like any rational human being, he decided to build an apparatus at home using *a shop vac, Mason jars, an IV needle and surgical tubing.*
So he had no issues for a few weeks, just set the vacuum to pull the blood through the tubing via the needle and drain into the Mason jars. No big deal. One day he isn't paying attention and sets the vac to "blow" instead of "pull." Dude switched it off after a few seconds, but he still had a massive air embolism. He's very lucky he didn't die, he 'just had a major stroke.'
He goes in for treatment now the last I heard.
Debby Keir 6 months ago
It's probably 'polycythaemia' which does require blood letting. Leeches would not take out enough. *https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/conditions/polycythaemia*
Load More Replies... CD Mills 6 months ago
I am aware of one condition, Hemochromatosis, where you have too much iron in your blood and need to lose some of it. From what I understand, they tell you to go to a local blood service and explain, and they will take your blood just like you are donating.
Marjo B 6 months ago
Yup! I have it and since I’m very hard to stab, I have to go to the hospital for treatment, but otherwise you can go to the blood bank for regular donations. Of course it’s still important to do regular check ups with your doctor!
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 6 months ago
Vacs that suck and blow work by moving the hose to different ends. There's not a switch to reverse the motor.
Bad Alchemy 6 months ago
I'm calling BS on this one. I'm not buying the "accidentally set the vacuum to blow." I have a shopvac. In order to get it to blow, the hose has to be switched to a different port, the one that is the exhaust port, rather than the intake port.
Wild Cream 6 months ago
So maybe it was and he forgot to move it back to the intake port. 🤷♀️
Load More Replies... #43
If I've learned anything from reading the comments here it's that some men will tolerate almost any amount of pain to avoid a doctor seeing whatever stupid s**t they've done to themselves. This is no exception.
I once spoke to a paramedic who went out to a man at 2am who had excrutiating pain 'down below'. The poor organ was wrapped tightly in soaking bandages, and underneath was a blackened p***s with large pus filled holes in it. The man eventually admitted that he'd shoved a chicken bone (a 'clean' one, whatever that means) down his c**k for pleasure. Predictably enough he couldn't get it out, and being too embarrassed to go to the doctor he'd left it and left it until he was in so much pain he couldn't walk, both from the rotted p***s and the fact he hadn't been able to urinate for days.
Apparently you could actually see the bone once the wound was clean, and although not an expert my friend couldn't imagine that what was left was salvagable.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
::distant screaming from the general direction of Southern California can be heard by all Pandas::
Bi.Felicia 6 months ago
As a woman, I'm going to do the same. I can understand when men decide to shove things into their backside, because nearby glands are known to be pleasurable, when simulated. Now what this guy did, I'm having trouble comprehending why and of all things to use, the remains of dead animal, was the best option?!!!??!! 🤦🏻♀️
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#44
We had a guy come in with an abscess on his right thumb. When I asked him what happened to his hand, he told me about his recent deep sea fishing trip and was given the responsibility of cutting the fish with an open wound in his hand. A sliver of fish got in there and became infected as it healed, so this guy gets the bright idea of doing a little DIY wound drainage by grabbing his pocket knife and cutting it open, leading to a greater infection.
#45
I work in dental and years ago had a patient attempt to super glue her front tooth back on after it broke in half. She screwed up and ended up gluing the chunk to her upper lip.
veryvenasaur 6 months ago
Viggo Mortensen tried that or tried to try that so it can't be that uncommon.
Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
He broke a tooth and told them to glue it back rather than stopping filming to take him to the dentist. While working on The Lord of the Rings.
Load More Replies... Joanne Kinney 6 months ago
I worked with elderly people at an assisted living community and one of my residents used super glue to put her dentures in. Not good! Took quite awhile to get them out.
#46
Had a dude try and pull out a rotted tooth with pliers.
Kid had a d**g test the following day so to “cleanse” his system he drank a jar of pickle juice and then busted open a bunch of niacin pills.
Patient with festering leg wounds that wrapped them with tampons and duct tape. First time I saw maggots in a wound.
Stuffing raw bacon in their nose to stop a nose bleed. (But it actually kind of worked??!)
Waaaay to many people with big pus collections under their skin that get drunk and stab them with broken glass or something else sharp. Many YouTube videos can demonstrate.
Angrywolf 6 months ago
Patient stuffed what up their nose?!?! What''s wrong with all these people!.
Day Andie 6 months ago
Fer shure! Waste of good bacon. Use broccoli or something.
Load More Replies... Deep One 6 months ago
One of my grandfathers would pull his own teeth with pliers. He was an ornery old cuss. Once while he was at a boxing match, a vein on the back of his hand burst and sprayed blood all over the head of the guy in front of him. He just took his cigar out of his mouth, blew in it to make it glow and used it to cauterize the vein.
#47
An old lady told me the rain hurt her arthritis. That's reasonable.
She also swore that dog spit had healing properties so she let her dogs lick her feet when she felt it coming on. She then wanted to show me a video of said dogs licking said feet.
I swiftly and politely declined.
weatherwitch 5 months ago
To be honest, gross as it sounds, it's maybe because the dogs tongues are giving an effect similar to a massage?? Either way it's bonkers 😂
Debby Keir 6 months ago
Actually, saliva does have some antiseptic properties, but don't advise you use your dog's.
#48
In nursing school while I was on clinical rotation in urology, there was a man who ended up having his p***s removed. It turned out he had an infection brewing for quite a while and thought the best course of action was placing a sock over his p***s in hope that it would heal. He was generally confused and upset as to why this didn’t work to heal the issue.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Er, he's still presumably got his dangly bits, so, with a bit of creativity, he probably still CAN reproduce, unfortunately! XD
Load More Replies... Earonn - 6 months ago
Stories like this just show how important proper s*x ed is. It not only teaches the names of all parts, but - at least in Germany - also a healthy attitude to everything that's going on there. Treating our sexual organs and everything around them as "dirty" and "shameful" keeps people from just going to the doctor. But hey, maybe baby jeebus loves rotten p***s...
#49
I'm a Physical Therapist, and this was more on accident than a DIY but I think it still fits. My patient was diagnosed with frozen shoulder and one day over the weekend he was getting in to his garage when his arm/hand got caught. The automatic door raised up and brought his arm with it. He came in the next week saying he was fine and no longer had problems with his shoulder. I joke with all my frozen shoulder patients that they should just try this at home.
Mark Alexander 6 months ago
D**n! I had frozen shoulder and the PT hurt like hell. And I had a perfectly functional garage door.
#50
Former ER nurse here. I did the DIY for a homeless patient. Generally whenever we get a homeless person for medical treatment, as long as it's not life threatening, we don't go out of our way to treat them. Especially if they are self inflicted injury to obtain pain meds. Had a guy come in for severe constipation. He hasn't had a bowel movement in a month due to d**g use. We gave him laxatives and told him to drink lots of water and told him to be on his way. He kept on begging for help and refusing to leave without some treatment. It was a slow night and didn't want to have a scene, so I told the charge nurse I'll take care of it if it was ok and to ignore the medical items charges. She was cool with it since he WAS in actual pain given how stiff and distended his abdomen was. So I took a urinary catheter and a 50cc syringe to the bathroom with him. Filled the sink with water. Had him strip down, some lube, and up the butt with the catheter. Took a good 20 flushes for him to finally have a bowel movement. He went from looking like he had 4 turkey dinners to a skinny featherweight.
The one thing I loved about working in the ER was, many times it comes down to DIY for things we don't have a procedure for.
-Edit: Everyone is asking why I didn't use an enema kit. We didn't have them and the squeeze bottle kind would have been dangerous. Plus the catheter/syringe/lube was cheap and the charge nurse was ok with ignoring the loss. A gravity enema wouldn't have worked on him since his impacted stool was so bad, the tube would have just been blocked. The syringe was needed to force the water inside and around the stool to get things started. It worked mainly because the 50cc syringe and the catheter fit nicely.
Atom Bohr 6 months ago
"Generally whenever we get a homeless person for medical treatment, as long as it's not life threatening, we don't go out of our way to treat them" that is effing inhumane. And they're saying that a different enema wouldn't have worked because of how bad it was, but they just wanted him to leave with laxatives? I really hope this one is made up
Dark Pigeon 6 months ago
I am afraid that this is a real thing.. absolutely inhumane
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Debby Keir 6 months ago (edited)
Used to get a lot of 'down and outs' where I trained, and constipation was a regular occurrence (but being NHS, they were treated) However, one of the ward sisters had this theory that they needed something nutritios even if the didn't feel particularly hungy - she made up a 'giving set' (like an IV) with rubber tubing and a thermos flask and used to give tomato soup per r****m. It was a 'rumour' round the hospital for years, but when she left, we found the 'set' in the cupboard whilst cleaning up the ward. (this was the early 70's)
Earonn - 6 months ago
What a f****d up attitude towards people in need. If anything, homeless people need more help. And this judgmental s**t about d**g use. Yeah, because they effin live on the street, and everything that helps them endure that is okay.
Alyce 6 months ago
Guess you dont know any. A majority are on the streets because of d***s, not the other wayround. "Anything for a high" is real. You dont usually start d***s when you have nothing; the d***s take everything. Its sad as hell to watch, but you cant fix them, its up to them to want to.
Load More Replies... weatherwitch 5 months ago
This is absolutely sickening the way they're spoken about. That person is still a human being 😔
Marlene Ricker 6 months ago
I can't believe you don't treat a homeless person unless it is life threatening! Wat the Hell is the matter with you. Homeless just means they are down on their luck - not that they are no longer human!!!
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Trundle 6 months ago
Got halfway through the list before I realized this wasn’t just guidance and health tips from the US secretary of health
murmelinpaiva 6 months ago
If we had universal health care here in the US, some of these people might not have been so desperate as to self-treat their medical problems.
Megalodon Meg 6 months ago
But then how would the billionaires stay rich?
Load More Replies... MonsterMum 6 months ago
I'm sure free, easily accessible health care would have prevented many of these.
Kevin Hickey 6 months ago
I guarantee that the majority of these are from one particular country where people are unwilling to go bankrupt for a hospital visit. 'murica!!!!!
Auntriarch 6 months ago
My bottom snapped shut so hard reading some of these you could have used it to take the end off a cigar
Mark Alexander 6 months ago
You could have a side gig doing circumcision for some of these idiots.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 6 months ago (edited)
It's amazing at how stupid people can be. Luckily I taught my sons well and they go to the Dr. When sick and for their physicals. They are in their mid 30's and know I would kick their butts if they did anything stupid medically. Hospitals have charity care for people who have no or crappy insurance. It also goes by your income, you might have good insurance but still might not even be able to pay a $20 copay. You can also go to the Health Department clinics depending on what it is at times. Do not ever try any procedures on yourself.
Brian Droste 6 months ago
People sure are stupid trying DIY remedies at home. Especially if they see a DIY treatment on the internet. The government or the medical field should come up with away to ban all illict medical advice and DIY medical procedures on the internet. Could prevent a lot of these incidents happening.
Chippy Chap 6 months ago
In the 1950s/60s, my Grandma would poor salt on wounds to make them clot or close up faster..?? *shudder
Trundle 6 months ago
Got halfway through the list before I realized this wasn’t just guidance and health tips from the US secretary of health
murmelinpaiva 6 months ago
If we had universal health care here in the US, some of these people might not have been so desperate as to self-treat their medical problems.
Megalodon Meg 6 months ago
But then how would the billionaires stay rich?
Load More Replies... MonsterMum 6 months ago
I'm sure free, easily accessible health care would have prevented many of these.
Kevin Hickey 6 months ago
I guarantee that the majority of these are from one particular country where people are unwilling to go bankrupt for a hospital visit. 'murica!!!!!
Auntriarch 6 months ago
My bottom snapped shut so hard reading some of these you could have used it to take the end off a cigar
Mark Alexander 6 months ago
You could have a side gig doing circumcision for some of these idiots.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 6 months ago (edited)
It's amazing at how stupid people can be. Luckily I taught my sons well and they go to the Dr. When sick and for their physicals. They are in their mid 30's and know I would kick their butts if they did anything stupid medically. Hospitals have charity care for people who have no or crappy insurance. It also goes by your income, you might have good insurance but still might not even be able to pay a $20 copay. You can also go to the Health Department clinics depending on what it is at times. Do not ever try any procedures on yourself.
Brian Droste 6 months ago
People sure are stupid trying DIY remedies at home. Especially if they see a DIY treatment on the internet. The government or the medical field should come up with away to ban all illict medical advice and DIY medical procedures on the internet. Could prevent a lot of these incidents happening.
Chippy Chap 6 months ago
In the 1950s/60s, my Grandma would poor salt on wounds to make them clot or close up faster..?? *shudder
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