My child is near death. Can you make a grocery run?
Some people are so stupid it should be illegal.
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!
Don’t keep your baby at over the boiling point of water.
What? They were clearly using the delisle scale…
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
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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
A friend mixes onions (cut into pieces obviously), ginger and honey and eats that. Doesn’t make the room stink, maybe propose that?
…personally I’m a fan of hot tea with honey.
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.
I just dance around with a rattle and call on the power of Lemmywinks and it works for me every time
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
Ginger works better.
It’s knobbly for our pleasure
Makes me act like a horse ten years younger.
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)
Gotta love that metric-conversion decimal dust.
100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.
Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F
In Celsius, 40º+ deserves a hospital visit (35-36º is the usual body temp). If you somehow manage to get it to 100º, please take pictures, I’m pretty sure the body would glow
I’m pretty sure the body would glow
Nah, boiling water doesn’t glow. But it would probably be pretty foamy, from all of the proteins in the boiling blood.
At 38c you should be calling the doctor and at 39 you should be in the ER.
100 degrees C for 30 minutes, longer than that and the meat gets too stringy
I would have though a baby would be treated more like a brisket and that’s way to little time.
Apologies I got my cooking instructions from google ai
Perhaps a nice braise
Above 100c I’m not wasting money on a doctor.
Then I sure as hell hope you’ve never been responsible for caring for an infant.
If baby temperature is 100c, its more reducing it to a simmer and covering with a lid temperature rather than a doctor temperature
At 100c it has been dead for a very long time. 63C is medium rare for pork which means most humans should be well cooked at that temp.
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
No one is arguing any different. Just pointing out the assertion that they are eligible to vote is in determinate.
you would be surprised how much folk ‘wisdom’ gets passed down through generations and continues to thrive. the thinking there being that natural is good because it can’t harm you (ignore mushrooms and beladonna, though). why take a pill produced in a lab somewhere, when you can just shove some onions in a sock?
I suspect that this is just communication breakdown, from times when people used herbs for medicinal purposes (liquorice root, for example, acts as an antiinflammatory by inhibiting breakdown of cortisol, and willow bark contains salicylic acid, a rough version of aspirin - the latter being acetylsalicylic acid, a derivative of it). but I think even the old witch in the woods would disapprove of onions in socks.
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
