What does this have to do with being an antivaxer? Dumb grandma home remedies and antivaxer are not mutually exclusive forms of stupidity
Some people are so stupid it should be illegal.
Don’t keep your baby at over the boiling point of water.
What? They were clearly using the delisle scale...
pretty sure this is in freedom units
My child is near death. Can you make a grocery run?
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.
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.
The next time she checked the temperature it was 76F works really good!!
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.
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.
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.
Ah so next time I have a cough, eat shit loads of onion?
But yeah haha, time is the likely answer.
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.
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
If the baby lives, the onion worked. If the baby died, didn't use enough onion.
God's plan
A story that The Onion would be proud of. Could have been used as a form of self-advertising, too.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
It was done by a woman. Have you not kept up with us executive orders?
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.
the highlighted words have a message for you.
baby onions in socks
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.
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