2y ago

Top tier medical advice.

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He's right. I kept the wound open and completely bled out. Lost all of my blood. But it's worth it because i didn't get Tetanus.
Did you know you can stop rabies by having someone chop your head off?
- Did you know you can stop rabies by having someone chop your head off?
  That's probably the preferred treatment over dying of rabies induced violent psychosis.
  
  I wonder what it’s like to be in a rabies induced violent psychosis. Also why it’s like while you’re still somewhat sane, but fear water.
  
  Either that or get lots of shots in the stomach? (They still do that right?)
  
  Rabies is like my number one fear, next to prions. Nightmarish stuff.
- No, you amputate the torso, it's different
- I spit my drink out to this comment. Thank you

He’s technically correct - if you bleed fast enough for long enough, you won’t get infected by anything that needs a live host to grow.
- I just imagined one these people getting paper cut and intentionally forcing it too bleed like a garden hose.
  
  I mean, it happens in the totally accurate documentary Evil Dead so it should work
- It is the same about things that are known to cause cancer. If you just ignore it long enough you don't have to worry about anything.
- So you are saying that they are protected for the rest of their life?

All you have to do is tell the tetanus "I do not consent," and by law, it cannot infect you.
- If it were a legitimate tetanus infection, the body has ways of shutting it down.
- Oh great, a "sovereign organism" movement...
- Share this post with five people and tetanus will seize infecting you.

You just have to make sure you bleed faster than the bacteria or whatever can swim in.
- Just start squeezing those arteries like tube of toothpaste
  
  I can imagine the guy just pumping out his own blood like crazy laughing hysterically "You can't poison me you fools!"
- I mean, it makes some sense if you get bitten by a snake, since its poison is not literally everywhere around you (hence why in older time they try to suck it out as much as possible). But the problem for viruses is that as soon as you stop gushing out blood, the bacteria/viruses nearby the wound will try to enter the bloodstream anyway
  edit: or the fact that the veins are a one way, therefore if the virus is already inside, and you let blood out, you let out the blood which is clean. Or the fact that once inside, the virus might already be infecting cells and therefore is out of the bloodstream. or....

Well the immune system is amazing. Their brain, not so much.
- If the immune system was so amazing, why didn't it destroy the silly inside their brain?
  
  Nothing is that amazing.
  
  because only two things are infinite, and one of those sadly is stupidity

Ok I'm gonna stop grabbing cow manure with bleeding hands.
Nothing is allowed anymore :(
- Nono, you're fine doing that, just make sure you're bleeding hard enough so that the manure can't get in the bloodstream.
- Best idea, just get rid of ALL the blood.
  Can't have. Bloodborne disease if you have no blood.
  
  Checkmate anemics.
  
  FromSoft fans rushing to get the Bloodborne disease:
  
  Bleeding is just weakness leaving the body
- The fun police are everywhere
  
  Stop cancelling me!

Wait, why do I even need an immune system if the bloodletting keeps the bad spirits out anyway?
- Cos not every attack comes from a bleeding injury. Joking of course. This guy is nuts.
- Valid conclusion, I'm cancelling my health insurance rn. More money for scratchers, hell yeah!

Alright, give this guy an old fashioned blood letting with some leeches when he's feeling under the weather.

I wish there was just a button you could push to make people feel shame.
- shame 🔔
  
  shame 🔔
  
  They asked for a button not a comment

People are just so confident in the bullshit they think is correct and have no proof of. It sounds right so it is. Must be.
- I whish I was so confident in anything.
- At some point I feel like we should just let these people conduct their own health experiments, the problem will take care of on itself. You can only try your best at educating people but if they choose to be stupid there is nothing you can do.

I hope this person learns by first hand how, for instance, AIDS is transferred.
- Just cut it off and let the virus bleed away
  
  I agree, just get rid of your blood, problem solved!

Tetanus is fucking terrifying. I'm happy to have chemicals to protect me from that.
- It's not chemicals that protect from tetanus; it's the dead tetanus bacterium the vaccine contains that train the immune system to recognize the threat.
  
  And what are the dead tetanus bacterium made of? Chemicals 😜

SICKNESS, BE GONE!

I'd like to see them say that when they have lock jaw
- Sorry wrong. Can't have lock jaw if you only leave it unlocked. Human body amazung

Real "Magnets, how do they work? Its a miracle!" Energy

They're not entirely wrong, which is frustrating.
Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria which means exposure to air will kill it. If a cut is bleeding that means it's at least partially exposed and may prevent tetanus. The reason people tend to get tetanus infections from puncture wounds is because the wound heals up and seals out the air.
Also, letting a cut bleed for a bit is one way of flushing any foreign material from the wound, which can help. But you still need antibiotics and a bandage to reduce the risk of infection.
- It's like only doing the first step of CPR.
  A: "You got to lay them on their back."
  B: "And then?"
  A: "No that's it."
  B: "Isn't there chest compressions or something involved?"
  A: "Nope, chest compressions are dangerous and cause people to break bones. Plus almost 100% of people who were not laying on their backs ended up dying after their heart stops. So, laying someone on their back is all you need to do."
- Yeah, it's incredibly frustrating when propaganda uses partially true information to push their agenda. From a first aid perspective, letting the wound bleed a bit and get oxygen exposure can reduce the initial infection. You should absolutely get the vaccine though because why fucking risk it?

They're right, no one who has ever bled has died.

You know
You try and try to educate people but… idk maybe they should be allowed to conduct experiments if they’re willing to sign off on no medical treatment. Seems like a fair challenge to those who know so much.
- I mean, let Darwin do Darwin.
  
  As is often pointed out, in order for this plan to work they need to die before procreating. Unfortunately the crowd that doesn't take education seriously doesn't take birth control very seriously either, or at least not in they way they should.
  
  Bad ideas propagate independent of the genome.
- Problem is their, "experiment," is resulting in the return of previously eradicated diseases.
  
  Tetanus is very far from eradicated. The bacteria causing it are pretty much everywhere. People don't succumb to tetanus anymore because they are immunized and the shot is highly effective. That's why it's so important to get the vaccine. If you actually contract tetanus, your chance of survival without severe, permanent handicap is slim, even with the best healthcare available.

I can't be the only person not totally dissapointed at how meth lab medical this person's advice is, but like fucking sad because there are three other people who liked this meaning there are more decimal bound IQ meatbags who would take this as solid advice.
That person's grade of stupid is not a freak one off. There are others!
- Letting cuts bleed for a bit is a good idea though since it does actually clean the wound.

oh so we're wrapping around to the 1820's now too
- I can get on board with the cocaine and laudanum. Not so much the mercury and bloodletting.
  
  Hold the radium and heavy metals but bring on the leaches!

Don't correct them and just let nature run its course
- Tetanus is a horrible way to go, even for anti-waxx'ers and even worse if it's their kids. Who have little to say in the matter.
  
  It's horrible if it's unavoidable. They're consciously choosing this lol.

At some point you stop bleeding Doogie Howser. If you're lucky that'll be before you run out of blood, in which case, according to your theory of medicine, you'll be infected anyway.
If it's after you run out of blood, well, infection wasn't your main problem.

I recommend 1g of aspirin and a good bloodletting.
- That's for pansies.
  You can buy warfarin off the shelf in the form out pest poison.
  If you wanna set a world record for death by blood loss, that's the way to do it.
  Remember kids:
  All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
  —Paracelsus, 1538
  Often condensed to "The dose makes the poison."
  Also, death by warfarin overdose is a slow, bloody, painful way to go. Don't self medicate with fucking rat poison or anything stupid.
- Was there aspirin in the age of bloodletting?
  
  In the form of willow bark, yes, there was. Salicylic acid, the primary compound in aspirin, is also found in willow bark, which has been used therapeutically for 3500+ years.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjh.14520?sid=nlm%3Apubmed

America - it's dumber here.
- more* dumber
  
  The dubmerest

Nothing can enter your bloodstream if you just let it bleed.
Exactly. Just like how fish cannot swim upstream no matter how slow or fast the flow is.

morons are everywhere

You're all taking it out of context. They said "soap and water", meaning you're supposed to keep bleeding until you can wash it with soap and water.
DO NOT wash it with cow manure
See? It makes perfect sense...

He's got a point there actually. You definitely don't need poison in your body. By definition, that might kill you if there's enough of it.
- Cytotoxic drugs are poison. They keep me alive.

Darwin used to call it "Natural selection", now we call it "Being confidently incorrect"
- No, Darwin didn't, in fact he rightfully rejected so called "social Darwinism" because it's nothing but eugenicist bunk.
  
  that's the problem with Great Ideas, eventually carnival hucksters and conmen are selling it out of bottles in the parking lot
  
  I don't think the person you replied to was talking about social darwinism
  From your article....
  The core idea of Social Darwinism is that the wealthy and powerful enjoy the privileges they do because they are more fit in terms of the traits favored by natural selection. The poor and powerless have less fit traits and therefore it is best to let them perish ...
  This reprehensible (and bullshit) ideology is distinct from the idea of a person making an unsafe decision like golfing on a mountain in a thunderstorm that directly causes them to die.

It‘s technically correct, if you prevent your wound from stopping to bleed, you won‘t get ill. That is due to the fact, that you‘ll be dead.

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