American exceptionalism
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 49 minutes ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I mean for dealing with worm parasites in the field, given limited supplies and (I’m assuming) this being a pretty old manual, this isn’t too bad.
Basically instructions for forcing out the entire contents of your stomach or using something that is probably handy to kill them before they do too much damage to you.
over_clox@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’ve actually done this once before, as I was briefly having belly issues and honestly couldn’t eliminate the possibility of a parasite.
It made me feel a bit weird for a day or so, but not too bad really. It did slow my cigarette craving for a while too. It didn’t outright evacuate my guts as you might assume, also apparently I didn’t have any intestinal worms thankfully.
I think the way this is meant to work is that if you do have worms, the nicotine is supposed to shock the little demons into unclamping their jaws and basically evicting themselves.
I’d stand by this technique for survivalists in a pinch though.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
It also paralyzes your cilia so it’s not improbable (cilia are the little hairs that line your breathey tubes and rhythmically beat to push gunk up and out). It’s actually why the smokers cough usually gets worse a few days after quitting then stays worse until you’re finished hacking up all the built up tar. Your cilia wake up to your respiratory tract fucking trashed like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Isn’t there enough nicotine in a cigarette to kill a non-smoker if eaten?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Same for 4 tablespoons of salt in a quart of water. This will make you piss out of your asshole your body wants to get rid of it so fast. 30 mins of stomach gurgles, ten minutes of the most liquid to ever come out of your asshole since last you tried to boof a 6 pack, and then you’re good to go.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 hours ago
You just conjured up a childhood memory. All I can say is you’re not exaggerating lol.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
a handy mushroom called the “death cap” mushroom works particularly well too.
Megamanexent@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
A little too well
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!
I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completel hands free and the fields are really cozy.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
“two tablespoons of kerosene is good; any more than that don’t be stupid.”
Rooster326@programming.dev 5 hours ago
You can repeat this treatment
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You can have a little kerosene, as a treat
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
in fact the only treatment you can’t repeat is the water.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
"Ah yes I see the problem. The cigarettes have to be unlit. We’ll mention it in the next edition. "
altphoto@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Boom!
altphoto@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Oh, the cigars first. Then the kerosene! Got it!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The smoke will suffocate the toxins of the apple seeds
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Calling out the cigarettes but ignoring the next line about kerosene.
PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If you did them the other way, kerosene then cigs, well that would burn the parasite out, sure, but the host… well, it might hurt a little.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You can drop a lit cigarette in kerosene and it will just put the cigarette out. You can also so that with diesel. You cannot, however, do that with gasoline.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
That’s for the marines.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Nono, that would be Crayon eating
MTZ@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The American way.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I mean, nicotine is a nature pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.
Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.
No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Vomiting won’t get them out. If when you vomit you’re bringing up matter from where they live then you’ve got much bigger problems than just a worms infection.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
This is field survival manual, meant as a last resort for situations when you’re miles from civilization and neither a pharmacy nor a medic are available.
Of course there are better options out there.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah but I just wanna eat cigarettes. They make my mouth all tingly.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Btw for the capsaicin thing. It’s one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.
(I know spicy plants don’t grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Not rather keep the food longer edible by killing bacteria & fungus?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Capsasian tickles on the other end when it is done.
Little bonus.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Did you know your anus has taste receptors?
You’re welcome.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
I just skip that whole part and boof my capcaisin.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 20 hours ago
Eating a cigarette isn’t going to outright kill you, some worm having a happy meal in your stomach might, or at least incapacitate you enough to get killed by something - or someone.
There’s lots of things in life that you shouldn’t do, but can help you in an emergency. There’s chlorine tablets - not exactly healthy, but can help with gut bacteria in a pinch. Cauterizing a wound is fucking painful and is not recommended by modern physicians - but it beats bleeding out or dying to an infection.
Keep in mind that those are not “DYI at home” kinds of tips, but “You got shot in the middle of nowhere and you’r close to dying.
over_clox@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Man, you would bring up cauterizing a wound…
Many years ago we had a terrier dog that got shot by a neighbor in her right hip. Thankfully it only went under the skin and came back out like 3 inches away, so no serious internal damages, but the dog’s wounds kept bleeding and bleeding…
Dad couldn’t afford a vet, but I wasn’t gonna just let the dog bleed out either. I got out my soldering iron and cauterized the wounds myself until she quit bleeding. Yeah the dog didn’t like it much, nor did she like me very much afterwards, but I successfully stopped the bleeding and she ended up fully healing up with no problems.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Did she ever come back around on you? If only we could explain things to them haha
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Pretty sure a lot of solder is lead based, for anyone needing to replicate this make sure you thoroughly clean the soldering iron.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 20 hours ago
You seem to misunderstand the American healthcare system. Always act as if you're close to dying, because the insurance companies will kill you with debt.
over_clox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Nah, you can die in the ER waiting room like my old friend Ryan P.
He literally died in the waiting room in the hospital, he died from a dental abscess that bursted into his bloodstream and went to his brain.
Dude died at age 27, and he wasn’t even part of the 27 club, he was seeking treatment! 😭
Reisen@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
idk if you meant that but electrocauterization is still a thing that’s done routinely by modern physicians (and still fucking hurts). you can’t close up all blood vessels easily with other methods.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Never heard of that tbh, I would expect that they just seal the wound with plaster or something lmao. I won’t doubt it tho, medicine is wild.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
The kerosene one works.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 7 hours ago
Yeah, because it kills you. Kerosene and similar low-viscosity hydrocarbons in your stomach migrate to the lungs, causing them to collapse. Not a nice way to go.
They only found out after some kids mysteriously died upon ingesting minute amounts of lamp oil.acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
One of the ways worm infestations can kill, especially kids, is when it gets so bad they start travelling up the esophagus and can block the upper air ways. In these extreme cases, in the absence of another medication at hand, a spoonful of kerosene can save a life.
My grandma saved a neighbor’s 6 year old kid doing just that. The girl was later taken to the hospital and made a full recovery, but would have asphyxiated otherwise.
Nvermind@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Beats drinking kerosene for sure
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Just a weird mixed alcoholic beverage with a denaturant (against alcoholics getting even more liver damage).
Im_old@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Drink kerosene, smoke cigarette, breath fire.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
Chsrizard origin story.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
2 TABLEspoons!
Defectus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I wonder how tobacco/nicotine pouches compares. I ingest around 100-mg of nicotine with those daily
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
I doubt you’re ingesting much of any of it, it’s being absorbed directly into your bloodstream through your gums. Actually eating it would have a totally different effect on intestinal parasites.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Thanks for the tip!
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
It’s also handy if you eat apple seeds
Saapas@piefed.zip 20 hours ago
PunnyName@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Apple seeds are fine unless you’re eating hundreds. Then you have a different kind of problem.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Don’t you judge my apple seed eating addiction, I can stop whenever I want.
CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Your mom is clearly dumb.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Scary italics.
fox2263@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The worms
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
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