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.
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.
100 degrees C for 30 minutes, longer than that and the meat gets too stringy
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.
For a second I thought that baby was boiling, but then I remembered Fahrenheit exists 😂
If the baby lives, the onion worked. If the baby died, didn't use enough onion.
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.
The next time she checked the temperature it was 76F works really good!!
My child is near death. Can you make a grocery run?
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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.
It was done by a woman. Have you not kept up with us executive orders?
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
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.
My child instantly feels better when I supply vitamin TV.
It amazes me that people are still this stupid.
Or... Ya know, you're full of shit or your thermometer also doesn't work.
Conversely, if you burn your onion while cooking, you can put a few baby slices in the pot to make it go away.
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.
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.
Some people are so stupid it should be illegal.
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.
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.
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.
They probably saved the onions and made a soup.
If you use this trick repeatedly, temperature may drop way further!
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