Unconventional Strange Treatments

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What is the strangest and most unconventional treatment you have ever given for you patient? Did it work?

I had a HHC patient who had a terrible itchy rash. She had it for months and many dg had been r/o, as well as she had tried evey treatment you can think of without relief. I mentioned it to the head WCN who advised we try banana peals. I used the banana peals by rubbing the inside of the peal on her skin where the rash was located. It worked!

Thanks for your replies! :p

does anyone understand why the onions work???

Originally posted by BMS4

JoyfulNurse (Dara),

Welcome :)

Thank you!

The first response to my post from Peepsmcarthur was a bit hostile.

The Md did actually write in his order that it sounds strange, and originates from third world countries. I nor other nurses had heard of it before. (Using honey to debride a wound bed)

Thanks for the welcome dear...I am hesitant to post again after that original response.

Warmly,

Dara

Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
Originally posted by Chaundra

We had an order to apply sugar to a prolapsed rectum for a 90 year old woman. Everytime she would sit on the toilet it would pop out again and we'd have to get the sugar packets out. What a mess!

Doesn't that work the same way that pouring salt on a slug works??? LOLOLOLOLO!

Joyful,

I think you misunderstood my post. I made a sick joke, then decided to edit it. If you'll notice, I make referrence to the voices in my head as if to say I'm having trouble with reality.

My post was nothing but tounge-in-cheek commentary about my post,not yours.............see?

Why would I single you out without even using your name,or quoting you? I guess that's what you mean by saying I was "hostile".

Well, I suppose I've been called worse things.

Purple, I too had to do leech therapy on a guys finger. He ended up losing it anyway, but it was neat. Freaky at first, but neat. Everybody, from all the other floors came to check it out like we all do when something is just WEIRD.

:uhoh21: Oh Joyful...................where's the acknowledgement of understanding?

I'm not going to just let this go. I want to know what you meant by "hostile" and explain it, or acknowledge the misunderstanding.

It's not fair to lable a post that way without a reason. You don't need me to approve of it certainly, but you do need one.

Originally posted by semstr

, onions on the thorax with thick flanel (know what that is?) sheets against the coughing for kids with pertussis (plus the moist, moist moist!!!!!)

my mom told me that I had whooping cough when I was less than 3 months old, and that my grandmother finally did this treatment to my chest, and that was the turning point.

I always assumed that was why I hatedhatedhated raw onions as a child ;)

My husband and I had fertility issues and it took us a very long time to conceive our son. The second time around I was hesitant to go straight back to clomid hell and the other fertility woes and did some other investigating first... We both took plain robitussin (an expectorant, it thins your secretions so you can cough... it thins all kinds of secretions...) 2 tsp BID for about 10 days before ovulation. My doctor thinks we're crazy but I am 8 weeks pregnant!

This one has worked without fail for me..when someone is suffering from hicups..a spoon of sugar under the tongue stops em..Now of course you can not do this with diabetics..and NO nutrasweet does't work...PS..Peeps has posted along time and hostile has never been a theme....I bet if the pharmaceutical companies were to see these posts they would try to crash the board..keep the great tips coming..

Specializes in NICU.

Our Pharmacy, has a Leech Tank, I've seen them used a few times on the MED surg wards, But NEVER in the NICU where I happen to work...

It really freaked me out the first time I saw it....

Here's a Little HX....

The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, has been used increasingly for relief of venous congestion, especially for salvage of compromised pedicled flaps and microvascular free-tissue transfer, digital re-implantation, and breast reconstruction. Leech therapy for compromised flaps is best used early since flaps demonstrate significantly decreased survival after 3 hours if venous congestion is not relieved. If venous pooling occurs around a flap or replant, the skin becomes cyanotic, cool, and hard. If capillary refill time (CRT) remains more than 3 seconds the flap or replant will not survive. The objective of leech therapy is for the affected area to become pink and warm, with a CRT of less than 2 seconds.

When leeches begin feeding, they inject salivary components (e.g., hirudin) that inhibit both platelet aggregation and the coagulation cascade. This results in a marked relief of venous congestion. The anti-coagulant causes the bite to ooze for up to 48 hours following detachment, further relieving venous congestion. By feeding for 10 to 60 minutes, leeches consume from 1 to 2 teaspoons of blood.Results from clinical studies showed that the success rate of salvaging tissue with medicinal leech therapy is 70 to 80%.

I was told to put the insides of a cigarrette on bee stings when I was a kid....not exactly sure what that was supposed to do....

Originally posted by kimmicoobug

I was told to put the insides of a cigarrette on bee stings when I was a kid....not exactly sure what that was supposed to do....

Tea, that REAL TEA is astriginent. Maybe tobacco is too that would help draw out the toxin. Ofcourse cigarette tobacco has other things in it besides tobacco. It has saltpeter which is why cigaretts unlike pipe tobacco continues to burn when the smoker is not drawing on it. Maybe it is the saltpeter. I think that may be a poltice that was once used to draw out toxins too.

(herbs have been a long time study interest for me long before becomming a nurse. )

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