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Weatherman | 01-29-2008 06:44 AM
Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda Be sure to stock real medicines in your preps. Those home remedies may not be best. Quote:
Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda Baking soda nearly killed an elderly man. He was using it to relieve the stomach pain caused by an ulcer, but went way overboard with the home remedy. After slipping on a children's toy, the retired gentleman could not get back up. Paramedics transported him to Cooper Hospital in New Jersey. En route, they noticed that he was short of breath and picking at his side for no apparent reason. In the emergency room, the patient was completely incoherent. He looked disheveled, underweight, and could not tell them what year it was. Had he hit his head during the fall? They ran a battery of tests, including a CT scan, but there was no sign of a head injury. However, the pH of his blood and urine were high -- a condition called alkalosis. In other words, his body fluids were way too basic. Soon after the examination, he became very agitated and tore the heart-monitor electrodes off his chest and the I.V. from his arm. To calm him down, the doctors gave him two doses of the tranquilizer Lorazepam. It worked too well. His breathing failed. The medical staff intubated him. Once their patient was stable, the doctors questioned his niece. She had found several empty boxes of baking soda at his home and explained that her uncle, who lacked health insurance, had been using it to cope with severe indigestion. With an understanding of what had went wrong, the doctors gave the patient fluids and potassium and potassium, which invigorated his kidneys. Slowly, the problem fixed itself. In a note to <CITE>The Journal of Emergency Medicine</CITE>, Keyur Ajbani, Michael Chansky and Brigitte Baumann said that six days after his arrival, the elderly man could breathe without assistance. The hospital released him with a prescription for proper ulcer medication. In their report, which is available online, Ajbani, Chansky, and Baumann explained that they could have quickly brought the pH of their patient's body fluids back down with injections of arginine hydrochloride or hydrochloric acid, but those procedures would have been risky. Their advice: When questioning patients about their medical history, be sure to ask if they are using any home remedies.
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shades2 | 01-29-2008 09:48 AM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda Home remedies are only useful along with knowledge, and that goes for prescription drugs too... There are some basic home remedies that are fantastic and will save you a packet of money otherwise spent at the chemist, and there are some disastrous remedies being touted by people who don't know what they're talking about. For example. Rehydration formula in little packets at the chemist can cost $8.50 or so. You can essentially make stuff that will do the same job for peanuts as follows:- 1 quart or liter of drinking or boiled Water 5 cupfuls (each cup about 200 ml.) 1/4 teaspoon of Salt 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda (bicarbonate of soda). 2 tablespoons of Sugar You can premake the mix and keep it in powdered form until required. Plus eat a banana if you want some potassium.

jaima | 01-29-2008 10:07 AM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda I grew up with some mighty strange home remedies. My Parents used to tie potatoes to the bottom of our feet when we had a fever. When we had a respiratory infection they would do a procedure called Venduzos to break up lung congestion. You took 6 short, thick shot glasses set them on fire with alcohol and let them form a seal on the skin on your chest across the lungs. After they took off the shot glasses they would slather you in Vick's vapor rub and layer you in T shirts and pile blankets on you. My Motherinlaw has some interesting home cures too. My husband recalls having his foot soaked in kerosene when his big toenail feel off. My Motherinlaw uses Lysol for everything including douche.:bear_w00t: No one seems any worse for the wear after these bizarre home medical procedures. We survived. Im a big believe in energy and herbal remedies. The worst thing I ever did to my kids when they were sick was full body messages and then I would lay different rocks on their chakra points and try to smooth out rough energy points . I figure they needed something to tell their Therapist when they were grown.

macrohard | 01-29-2008 10:11 AM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda You can put some baking soda in your coffee (very little) to neutralize the acid that the caffeine produces. Works great.

damoc | 01-29-2008 11:35 AM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda one that my mum used on me and i will never use on my kids was massive vitamin C dosage to get rid of a cold even if it did work the side affects were worse than the cold (s*** through the eye of a needle)

shades2 | 01-29-2008 12:54 PM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda My mother would try to treat our ailments with a teaspoon of sugar with "Friars Balsam" added... an unusual tasting, pungent concoction. It was only later as teenagers we found the "POISON" bit emblazoned proudly on the bottle, so I guess it wasn't intended for people to ingest... Somehow we survived childhood...

Big_Rob | 01-29-2008 01:04 PM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 8 ounces of water does magic for acid indigestion. He prolly took too much baking soda which is still sodium and still dehydrates you as would ordinary table salt if you take too much of it at one time.

ShirleyUGeste | 01-29-2008 01:16 PM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda My dad had a great "cure" for colds, coughs, & flu: Add the juice of 1/2 fresh lemon, two tablespoons of honey, 1 1/2 shots of either whiskey or brandy in a mug of hot water. Drink as rapidly as possible, bundle up in bed under a mountain of quilts, and "sweat it out." I don't know that it ever cured any of us of anything but after ingesting the "medicine" we somehow didn't care much anymore. :s9: Of course, these days a parent would go to jail for using this cure on a kid. Go figure.

____hoot____ | 01-30-2008 11:53 AM
Re: Chem Lab: Man Nearly Kills Himself With Baking Soda What's so "stupid" about these home remedys? The bottoms of your feet are the fastest growing skin areas on your body by far. Twenty percent or more of all excretion from your body is through the skin. "Drawing" toxins out with solvent soaks or potatoe poltices there on the soles of the feet, is just common sense. "Vicks"' ecaliptis tree[sp?]oil is antiviral and antibiotic to the MAX! And so is balsum fir oil!!! The "pill-PUSHERS" just can't patent these effective natural cures and make their bigbucks off them, so of course they are "poison" to their bottom line. Induceing a fever is very anti-viral. This is how your body kills virus'!!!

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