Specialties Emergency
Published Nov 24, 2011
You are reading page 3 of Vodka tampons?!?
diver117
25 Posts
This has actually been around for a few years, it just seems to surface every so often. My brother works in Michigan, a well to do hospital and has seen about 6 cases of it over the last year.
CapeCodMermaid, RN
6,090 Posts
I've heard of kids soaking gummy bears in vodka so they can eat them in front of their parents. Jeezlies peezlies...I thought I was a wild kid because I put a Fizzie on my tongue instead of in a glass of water:coollook:
nursel56
7,078 Posts
Has anyone heard of the "wine steward" partier? A Foley catheter is inserted into a man's empty bladder, as much wine as he can stand (owie) is instilled, and he goes about filling wine orders sans the glass in a very unique way. .:uhoh21:
We were doing a lecture on substance abuse last week, and one of my classmates was telling us about how her 11 year old daughter has friends who will crush up smarties candies and inhale them?!???!! REALLY?! WHY?!! Sugar high? They think it looks cool??? Hah, it's not funny but I'm just smh. And they ingeniously call it "smoking smarties".
I saw that on TV, but the kid just lights the whole package and smokes it like a cigarette, cellophane and all. Un-beleeevable . . .but then so is huffing Pam Baking Spray and compressed air. I know the compressed air abuse is true. My son works at big box office supply store as a cashier. uhoh uhoh uhoh
Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN
2,365 Posts
I um, may or may not have known someone who, uhhh, may or may not have snorted cinnamon and/or pixie sticks in her early teens.
This...person reports that no harm came of it, nor no pleasant effects. Just an inability to get rid of the smell.
Ms.RN
917 Posts
Wow.... I never thought about doing that. How did they find that out or am I the dummy one??
Flare, ASN, BSN
4,431 Posts
i've heard of it, but never saw it in action. Wouldn't a vodka soaked tampon hurt like crazy in one's tender nether regions?!
ICU_RN2
31 Posts
I've heard that is why they put them in their rectum - it doesn't hurt as much?
Who knows...the kids that are doing this are not your typical stupid teenager I feel..these are the minority.
SweetOldWorld, BSN, RN
197 Posts
I could have very happily lived the rest of my life without knowing this.
nola1202
587 Posts
Regarding the post who said she errr, had a "friend" who once snorted smarties candies as a young teenager: Hee, hee, hee! Tell your friend "thanks for sharing.":yeah: I know those little candies went up my nose whole once as a joke and I couldn't get them out...
I also remember laughing and accidentally (yeah right) inhaling part of a pixie stick..it burned, left a weird flavor and made me cough for a while.
I saw the alcohol enema as one of the "one hundred ways to die" TV series. I had never thought of ingesting alcohol in that manner and thought the idiot deserved to die. never heard of a vodka tampon. good thing.
Munch
349 Posts
Oh yes I have hear of booze soaked tampons from my colleagues in the ED, they also talk about the teens getting drunk by way of mouthwash(some mouthwashes contain Ethel alcohol, not a lot but if you drink enough of it you can get drunk..why anyone would want to do that...mouthwash burns)!
In the ED in my hospital we also had a teenage female that did cocaine lady partslly. She tested positive for coke and it was found in her lady partsl tissue. Like your nose obviously the lady parts contains mucous membranes. The patient SAID it happened during sex with her boyfriend...but no one believed that(while it could happen) she tested WAY too high for it to be from sex.
I can't even fathom how these things are thought of.
tothepointeLVN, LVN
2,246 Posts
Oh yeah I've heard of this. It's about as boneheaded as the games we used to play when I was at uni in NZ. We used to fill a cereal bowl with beer and drink it with a spoon so more would be absorbed through the oral mucousa vs digested through the stomach. Of course you'd compete with another. First one to pass out loses.
Of course I've probably drank only about a dozen beers in the last dozen years after those kind of experiences. So hey maybe it'll turn some people off alcohol like it did me.
Christy1019, ASN, RN
879 Posts
Oh yes I have hear of booze soaked tampons from my colleagues in the ED, they also talk about the teens getting drunk by way of mouthwash(some mouthwashes contain Ethel alcohol, not a lot but if you drink enough of it you can get drunk..why anyone would want to do that...mouthwash burns)! In the ED in my hospital we also had a teenage female that did cocaine lady partslly. She tested positive for coke and it was found in her lady partsl tissue. Like your nose obviously the lady parts contains mucous membranes. The patient SAID it happened during sex with her boyfriend...but no one believed that(while it could happen) she tested WAY too high for it to be from sex.I can't even fathom how these things are thought of.
Or she was attempting to hide it and decided to put it there, that's actually very common, if the bag bursts they absorb it and BAM overdose