AWOL-seen any patients using this yet?

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hi- just trying to educate my ed staff-'new toy out there'- called awol- it's like nebulizing alcohol- you can buy these machines and inhale alcohol. being hyped as "less hangover, less calories" anyone seen pts with problems related to this?

anne

Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
What's wrong with just DRINKING alcohol? Like with girls and tampons, how is that easier or more pleasant than a wine cooler?

Not that I'm encouraging excessive drinking, of course. It's just that some people are beyond comprehension.

The extremes that these girls go to in order to avoid the calories, while continuing to "party on" are also beyond comprehension ... :stone

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Nebulized alcohol, just when you think you've seen it all. (didn't mean to have a rhyme, it just worked out that way.)

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The extremes that these girls go to in order to avoid the calories, while continuing to "party on" are also beyond comprehension ... :stone

Wait a sec - you don't get the calories? That can't be right. If you absorb glucose through the mucuous membranes in your mouth (ie gluco gel for hypoglycemia) you get the calories. Same if you get D5 IV. Alcohol has calories that must be absorbed too.

So the tampons are just a waste of both alcohol and tampons! I wonder if it causes some local irritation.

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I am sorry but I don't really want to inhale anything thank you very much... People are so UGH....

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They say you learn something everyday. Nebulized alcohol, alcohol tampons?? - this is just sick.

What on earth will they think of next? - Forget I asked, I don't wanna know.

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They say you learn something everyday. Nebulized alcohol, alcohol tampons?? - this is just sick.

What on earth will they think of next? - Forget I asked, I don't wanna know.

This isn't just sick...well...it's almost inhuman...I mean...

DRINK my friends DRINK...

Margaritas are what keep the ER nurses returning to work each day...

Drink!!!

Otherwise...what fun is it??!!??

:rotfl:

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Specializes in ER,ICU,L+D,OR.
Given our fertile imagination

human kind will always find a way to improve on anything

particularly if its immoral and or bad for you

Very well stated, I think.

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

Absent WithOut Leave,I guess that's the brain that's absent then?!!!

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Specializes in CT ,ICU,CCU,Tele,ED,Hospice.

no never heard of it.

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Specializes in ER,ICU,L+D,OR.

Actually it got very popular here in Texas.Can not really imagine why. Grey cells being destroyed and all that, just more efficiently.

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a complementary analogue to using a heat gun to smoke MJ.....

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Specializes in Emergency.

Will police start checking tampons for ETOH when they suspect someone of DUI? We have laws against open containers. Will Playtex one day count? I have an issue with a cop smelling my tampons on the side of the road. And if I have to give up tampons so drunk teenage girls can stay thin there will be revenge!

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