Alternative meds? You'll never believe this one!!

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I am an office nurse and these are "daily doses of a patients reality"!!!

A familiar scene in the office!!

A new patient arrives and the "Med List" needs to be created.

One day I asked a new patient about her medications.

The patient listed

Accupril

HCTZ

Asa

and WD40!

Now...This is the truth..

I cautiously asked her what she did with the WD40..???

Fearing the worst I held my breath,

She gave me a toothless smile and replied:

"I use it to grease my joints every two weeks!!!!"

Her daughter grinned and attested to the fact saying ...

"Mama always keeps WD40 in her drug cupboard to grease her elbows and knees."

They were both serious :-)

PS. I do live in TN!!!!! :-)

Share your funny med stories!!!!

have a great day!!

Joy and Smiles *Darla**

Gotta ask.......What is "groppa"??

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Shot of Tequilla always does the trick for me right as the 1st symptoms of colds starts.:angryfire

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Gotta ask.......What is "groppa"??

Grappa: Italian wine somewhere between 80-100 proof, depending on who's making it :) Served cold or room temp....I used to live next to a large extended (authentic) Italian family with lots of weekend family gatherings. Always, the grappa came out after dinner :)

Personally, I like the flavor in tiny quantities, but it's strong enough to grow hair, LOL!

Enough of that stuff and I'm sure you'd feel better no matter what :)

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Specializes in Urgent Care.
I was stung by a jellyfish...already was turning into a big welp before I even got out of the ocean. In the vacation house couldn't find anything to put on it so jokingly tried the Windex...it worked wonderfully!!!! The man upstairs tried meat tenderizer when he got stung but his was much worse and painful the next day...;)

Thats really really really true about the windex. it is the ammonia content that provides the relief. I put a post on another thread about using urine on jellyfish stings. It works!!

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Specializes in Urgent Care.
Thats really really really true about the windex. it is the ammonia content that provides the relief. I put a post on another thread about using urine on jellyfish stings. It works!!

Quess what, I have been a SCUBA instructor for almost 20 years and I have been perpetuating this myth the whole time, I have even done it myself and thought it worked!

Boy was I wrong I found some real studies done and here is what one researcher says:

"In her column in 2001, Scott summed up years of study on a variety of sting "cures": "Nothing worked." In an e-mail to me, she summed it up another way: "Anything works."

This paradox goes to the heart of the urine myth. "Nothing worked" means that none of the main folk remedies--including urine, meat tenderizer and commercial sprays--did anything to stop the pain of a sting.

On the other hand, "Anything works," because the vast majority of jellyfish stings are not severe and their effects disappear within a few hours at most, no matter whether you urinate on yourself or simply do nothing."

http://www.susanscott.net/OceanWatch1999/mar22-99.html

Ahhh, the power of SCIENCE!

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Specializes in pure and simple psych.

Read the site. Does not have firm info either way. Looks like a study could be done... I can hear it now, "Sorry, honey. I have to go to Hawaii for my dissertation.":chuckle

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Read the site. Does not have firm info either way. Looks like a study could be done... I can hear it now, "Sorry, honey. I have to go to Hawaii for my dissertation.":chuckle

Hmmm, I feel a plan coming on.....

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to cure hiccups in newborn, mothers placed a piece of wet cotton ball on the baby's forehead and amazingly the hiccups disappear

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to cure mouth sore one patient rubbed it with the tip of a matchstick (phosphorous)

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My dear old dad always ate half a raw onion every night and put the other half in his pillow case at night.Never had a cold.Also I was told to put tender cabbage leaves in my nursing bras when babes were newborns to prevent mastitis.Worked a charm.

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Specializes in LTC and MED-SURG.

I wash my face with M.O.M. and use it as a mask about once or twice weekly. Everyone always compliments me on having pretty skin. (I'm over 50) I haven't tried the WD40, but have heard about it for years.

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My dear old dad always ate half a raw onion every night and put the other half in his pillow case at night.Never had a cold.Also I was told to put tender cabbage leaves in my nursing bras when babes were newborns to prevent mastitis.Worked a charm.

We were taught the cabbage leaf thing in nursing school. You can put them in the freezer too before putting them on in order to ease the pain.

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