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5mo ago

I hate antivaxxers but this mental image is hilarious.

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She's an idiot. When I have a fever I tie an onion to my belt, which is still the style.
- Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
- Really? I always rub one over my penis, you know, the classy way
  
  Waaaay up your butt
- And not one of those fancy white onions like you have now.

The annoyingly stupid part is that for most fevers that don't approach the "You need to go to the ER right now" point it's actually best to simply let it run it's course and not try to "break" it with drugs since a fever is your body's own defense mechanism.
But these antivaxxers will do this stupid shit, then go "see it works" and then try to apply it to everything else
- 102.6 in an infant was er territory I thought
  
  For infants it is usually recommended to seek treatment from your pediatrician for a temp over 100.4°F. (See link)
  https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-toddler-health/in-depth/healthy-baby/art-20047793
  
  Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F
  
  Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.

I feel bad for the kids. They don't deserve to die at the hands of incompetent parents.
One of the downsides of disrupting natural selection is that now we are keeping some people alive that probably should be taken by natural causes before they were able to replicate.
- Your feelings are paradoxical.
  
  I was waiting for someone to say something lol.
  Yes. Those two things are antithetical of one another.

For a second I thought that baby was boiling, but then I remembered Fahrenheit exists 😂
- Dropping onions in boiling baby makes more sense.
  
  People need to learn that you need to slow cook baby on low temp. They get chewy otherwise

Remember, this person is eligible to vote.
[shudders]
- She might not be 18.
  
  Might not be. Even still, how much intelligence do you think they'll gain by the time they are?
  
  But even a toddler playing the doctor knows that putting onions in a socks isn't a cure
- Eligible doesn't mean registered. A lot of these people are not big fans of things like government registries
  
  A lot of these people do whatever their husbands tell them. Zero sense of self. They were raised to be obedient to their man and nothing more.

If the baby lives, the onion worked. If the baby died, didn't use enough onion.
- God's plan

Unblinded study with n=1 test condition and no placebo / control.
All she needs to do is say that her conclusions haven't been evaluated by the FDA, and she's proved it enough to sell onion socks online.
- And honestly, if she was giving baby Tylenol and antibiotics and whatall, I wouldn't care if she put onions in their socks. It doesn't hurt anything in the long run. But they don't.
- n=1
  The thing with the onions is a well-established folk remedy. I even had it done to me when I was a little kid. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't help (and appears to work because fevers generally go away on their own) but the OP isn't simply making it up. Many people must have thought that it worked well enough that it was worth passing down over generations.
  
  Ok. I didn't realize this bullshit was grandfathered in.

The next time she checked the temperature it was 76F works really good!!

My child is near death. Can you make a grocery run?

the highlighted words have a message for you.
baby onions in socks
- For sale: Onion socks, never worn.
  
  What a tearjerker!

You really want to add some rosemary and sage to the sock as well so it's a proper bouquet garni. Then braise in a slow oven until fork tender.

I think its kind of weird everyone just assumes this was posted by a woman, unless I'm missing something. Men are parents too, and they can also be dumb like this.
- Wtf this comment just made me realise I always assume these "natural remedy" posts are done by a female oop
  This can't be the way I find out I'm sexist
  
  It's not sexism. Your brain naturally attributes probability from things it has seen in the past. The natural remedy of OPs sort is dominated by female sex so your brain just makes natural connection because it wants to be efficient in it's world building process.
  Sexism is when you don't self reflect on initial thoughts that you do not control and pursue these notions further in thoughts you control or simply refuse this dichotomy all together if you're a wilful idiot powere by trauma.
- Mom groups are definitely a thing, and even where things don't have to be for moms specifically the mentality still exists. My daughter was a "nano-premie" and was on oxygen for a while. I'm on a group for parents that have to deal with that, and every week or two there will be a post starting with "any moms who _______"
  I like to answer those posts and start by asking if dads can also answer (but also give a real answer too!)
  It is kind of hard when you try to be an involved dad but then get ignored in different ways
  
  That does sound hard. You deserve recognition and respect and appreciation, I'm sorry you have to deal with that.
- My old manager specifically mentioned the onion strapped to the foot thing in regards to his daughter having a bad fever.

I've joked about onions in socks being a home remedy for stupid shit, but I never imagined that anyone would actually do it. I hope they didn't get it from me.
- Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. The mastermind.
- I'm a time traveller from the future. Your legendary home remedies and LPTs, or "scutigerisms" as they're known, have become the basis for our entire culture!

My child instantly feels better when I supply vitamin TV.

It amazes me that people are still this stupid.

Don’t keep your baby at over the boiling point of water.
- What? They were clearly using the delisle scale...

What happened here is that some time passed. She could have rubbed her elbows with goose fat or did a rain dance and would have had the same result in the same time frame.
- new folk remedies just dropped

Sock onions, of course, why didn't I think of that.

Child abuse.

Conversely, if you burn your onion while cooking, you can put a few baby slices in the pot to make it go away.

Or... Ya know, you're full of shit or your thermometer also doesn't work.
- Or the fever happened to come down on its own.
- Or they used it wrong

I don't see how it's funny. This kid is definitely not getting the treatment that they need in the future.
- Just imagine the baby with a socks full of onions instead of imagining a dead baby.

From the book "Medicine for Infants", 956 AD

Some people are so stupid it should be illegal.

She should have tried eye of newt and toe of frog first.

A story that The Onion would be proud of. Could have been used as a form of self-advertising, too.

They probably saved the onions and made a soup.

Urgh a cut onion helps breathing when you have a cold with nasal congestion, it doesn’t do jack shit for fever. There’s natural stuff that decently works but gets a bad from morons like this. Ughhhh.

Were they fresh out of the fridge?
This would be similar to putting feet in cold water, temperature would lower slightly surely?
So just so that instead of onions ya freak
- Onions are antibacterial and solve cough mucus, it's not like it's completely made up that they're a natural remedy
  ... but they don't help with fever, so I'd go even further than you and say the temperature simply dropped because time passed.
  
  Ah so next time I have a cough, eat shit loads of onion?
  But yeah haha, time is the likely answer.
  
  Yeah.. My wife does the "bowl of onions" thing when the kids have a flu/cold with congestion. It does help with that part so they can breathe a little easier. It also makes the room stink for up to a week, and I seriously doubt it does anything for temperature unless cleared sinuses somehow also help bring that down.
  You can also accomplish similar with a humidifier and some vaporub etc. I prefer the vaporub personally
- The child's immune system probably just fought off the infection. After all, that's what fever is for.
  
  The blessed fever. Simultaneously saving and killing us.

If you use this trick repeatedly, temperature may drop way further!

I just dance around with a rattle and call on the power of Lemmywinks and it works for me every time

Me tuning the FM radio on my drive to work:

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