Re: How about your favorite Old Wives Tales related to health?
These posts made me think of my mother-in-law. She had some good ones....
1) For teething pain, give the baby a chicken bone to chew on. She did this with my son once and I about freaked! She apparently wasn't the only one who did this, though. I was telling some co-workers about it (because I could not believe she had done that) and several of the older ladies said that they had done that with their kids!
2) Another cure for teething pain -- whiskey. Give the baby enough, and he feels better and goes to sleep
. I also had an aunt who would crush aspirin and put it in her baby's bottle to "help them sleep".
3) Mother-in-law also believed that pouring rubbing alcohol into your childs ear would cure an ear infection. But, if by some off chance that didn't work, you could take a lit cigarette and stick the filtered end into the kid's ear. The cigarette would "draw out" the infection. No health risk there.
4) My husband still believes that rubbing alcohol is the absolute cure-all. Whatever ails you, rub alcohol on it, pour alcohol into it, whatever. Except for an abscessed tooth -- then you pop the abscess with a needle and swish and spit with peroxide
. Wonder where he got these ideas?
You know, I'm sure my M.I.L. meant well, but.......YIKES!
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