“Friend Died Aged 32”: 50 Everyday Things Most People Don’t Realize Are Deadly

People that fake an allergy because they don’t like a particular food need to be confined to a tenth circle of hell. Allergies can’t really be life threatening. Don’t mess with them

PSA because I only learned this the other day. If someone is allergic, has a reaction, and uses their Epipen, even if they feel fine they NEED TO GO TO HOSPITAL. The Epipen buys time, it is not a cure. Also, dumping that much adrenaline into your system can have bad effects on things like your heart and you need to be monitored, and it effects your cognitive functioning so you may not be able to make that decision for yourself. If you are with someone who's used their Epipen, INSIST. (This also applies to Naloxone)

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That sounds like an auto immune disease, this is similar to what happens to me and gluten (Celiac), those described are just the symptoms that you can see. It the internal damages your body does when it attacks itself that is the worst.

Whenever someone came in with a food allergy, I either made the food or supervised it being made... people are trusting you with their lives and people need to appreciate that!

This is why I always ask about sweeteners in desserts like cake, sweetened drinks such as Vietnamese coffee, etc. I am sensitive or allergic to a few.

Lol people on the road hate me because I follow all the road rules. Speed limit? Check. 3 seconds at stop sign? Check. Blinker before slowing down to turn? Check! Can't tell you how many people get fed up and go around me in dangerous ways, but I just keep minding my own. I have my son with me, I'm trying to set a good example

I see this, but I also see people driving FAR too cautiously, driving at half the speed as everyone around them, going too slow in onramps, etc. Those people are just as much a danger as those who drive too fast

A simple rule my mum told me when I was learning to drive: Drive like an imbecile and you may get home 2 minutes earlier. More likely, you don't get home at all.

My cousin died in a car crash. He was speeding down a country road without a seatbelt and his friends in the back a driver came towards him and was driving with those ridiculously bright headlights, he slowed down a bit but swerved because it looked like the other driver was in the middle of the road. He ended up hitting the kerb and the car rolled into a tree. He was the only one who died but the girl in the front with him had serious injuries and those in the back thankfully got off quite lightly. I also know a guy who was driving while high and he went off a cliff in his car with people in the back after he tried to do a u-turn on a small cliff-edge road. Thankfully a piece of the cliff jutted out a bit halfway down and broke his fall slightly before the car landed on the beach. No one died but he was in a coma for months and had to relearn his to walk and talk. The others only had broken bones

In the UK the law has been changed to give pedestrians the right of way - that doesn't mean you shouldn't look both ways before stepping out! Have some personal responsibility!!!

I always wear chaps when using a chainsaw. I was cutting one day, simple bucking and limbing of a downed tree, and I still have no idea how I missed what I was staring right at. In what felt like the shortest time known to man, it went from a full running saw to what looked like white doll hair right in front of me, tangled in the saw. On the part of the chaps covering my thigh. My femoral artery is remembering the scare that day, too. Best case scenario if I hadn't been wearing chaps that day, I'd have one leg right now. More than likely though... 💀 (The "white doll hair" is the material inside the chaps that stops the saw immediately).Thank God I trained on a saw with people who put safety first. When I later met my now-ex (self-proclaimed Mr. Safety), he never wore chaps. I never told him I knew it was because he thought it wasn't "cool." Like the idiots in middle school who thought bike helmets weren't "cool." I like my body parts right where they are, tyvm. Safety first, kids.

It should be compulsory for clubs, raves and festivals to have d**g testing stations. It's been extensively trialled in the UK, and it makes a huge difference to d**g safety. If there's a bad batch out there, it can be announced over the PR to warn people not to take it.

I grew up in 40's and 50's and experienced terrible sickness with mumps, measles (2 kinds) whooping cough, chickenpox. No one's kids has these illnesses now. Can't understand why people want to hate vaccines.

Stroke symptoms include, droopiness on one side of the face, slurred speech, and weakness on one side of the body. Ways to test for stroke, ask a person to smile, if only one side is smile and the other side of their face is droopy, call 911 or your country's emergency number. Other tests including asking them to lift both arms, if one arm is lower, or falls right after lifting it up, call the emergency number.

"If you want to rip on me about how much you hate vaccines, stfu and save it for someone who cares. I'm not interested and I won't entertain your BS". EXACTLY!

I turn all handles inward. Nobody taught me this, I just did it automatically even when I learned to cook. The handle would always get in my way unless I was moving the pot.

Always turn the handles inward, and even more important, the kitchen is NOT a park or a playground. Do no let your kids run wild in the kitchen while cooking. You could drop hot oil or water on them accidentally.

When I was a year old, my mom had me in the high chair near the stove while she was making Thanksgiving dinner. I swatted a pot of boiling potatoes and got burns all down my side. Luckily I don't have scars, and I don't remember the incident, but I do remember my mother being very strict about pan handles turned inward, always.

That exact thing killed a toddler in my family also.

My mom got badly burned once when she was boiling a pot of water on the stove and the handle was sticking out over the side of the stove. She opened the cupboard above it, and a box of spaghetti fell on the handle and flipped the pot over on her. You do NOT want to experience that, trust me.

Some of those medication interactions could potentially kill someone. Good on OP for being cautious.

Never mess with anyone's food and drink. Stick to the recipe.

I asked my doctor what would happen if i had grapefruit juice (with the meds that i'm on)... she said it could cause a stroke.

I don't know if this is an old wives tale, but I heard of you take an oral contraceptive and are on certain antibiotics that grapefruit can negate the contraceptive and it's easy to fall pregnant. I don't know if it's true or not, back I avoided grapefruit if I was on antibiotics when I was on the pill just in case, lol.

Also, if you're taking birth control and are prescribed antibiotics, it can negate the birth control.

My fiancé passed away at 41 (18 months ago) from a subarachnoid brain haemorrhage from an unidentified aneurism. He was a scientist in a highly pressurised field. I have absolutely no doubt stress contributed to it. He was fit, ate well, and had a very relaxed home life (we chose dogs not kids). Please take care and look after yourselves, you just never know… ❤️