"I'm Astonished How Many People Don't Know": Nurses Are Revealing The Dangerous "Health Myths" That Most People Don't Realize Are Actually 100% False

As idiosyncratic who grew up successful a household afloat of doctors, I similar to deliberation I cognize a batch astir wellness and medicine. But successful reality, determination are a ton of communal misconceptions that 99% of america are wholly unaware of — adjacent those of america who deliberation we've got tons of intel.

So it's clip for a batch of cognition (and a spot of pugnacious love) from medical professionals! On Reddit, nurses answered the question, "What is thing elemental you cognize arsenic a caregiver that the mean idiosyncratic does not?" and the answers are beyonddd fascinating...

Editor's Note: Just a heads-up, these are opinions from net people, not aesculapian advice. Always cheque with a healthcare pro if you person questions!

1. "Keep flowers and fancy scents distant from your vagina. Stop douching. Just permission her alone, sheesh. It's the self-cleaning oven. So galore cases of bacterial vaginosis and yeast infections stem from women trying to 'smell pretty' down there."

–Repulsive-Sort-4749

2. "Don't enactment food connected your burns! No mayo, nary nutrient products, none! Literally truthful galore radical bash this — it's similar 'ye olde timey' proposal that is f*cking terrible. You person nary thought the weird worldly radical enactment connected their burns. Stop! Just tally it nether acold h2o and spell to the nearest hospital, oregon if you're remotely adjacent to a pain center, delight spell there."

–Amrun90

3. "Vitamins and supplements are unregulated, and you shouldn't conscionable instrumentality a ton of them due to the fact that immoderate Facebook station told you it would hole your problems. Over-the-counter worldly is each medicine, and you request to archer your doc you're taking it. Also, connected a related note, you shouldn't instrumentality Benadryl each day."

–eltonjohnpeloton

4. "The cardiologist oregon doc astatine the infirmary knows what they're talking astir erstwhile they accidental that determination is thing much they tin bash for your 91-year-old father's bosom failure. The diuretics are sidesplitting his kidneys, and the fluid is not moving. It's clip to speech hospice. Forcing him to get up each time is not helping. He knows much than your kid successful aesculapian student, I committedness you."

–Amityvillemom77

5. "I ever deliberation it's comical erstwhile radical conscionable simply don't perceive to their superior attraction doc or, successful this case, the random doc you'd spot erstwhile astatine urgent care. I retrieve successful college, a person of excavation was prescribed antibiotics to dainty her UTI, and she decided it was good to spell against nonstop orders from the doctor. For example, she were told, 'Do not portion intoxicant portion taking this medication.' But astatine a enactment soon afterward, I broke into her chamber to find that she was precise hard to arouse, and had begun to aspirate connected her vomit! It's chaotic what happens erstwhile you bash the nonstop other of what the doc says."

–f-it-we-ball

6. "So galore patients say, 'I'm doing amended (i.e. my humor unit is normal; my arrhythmia has stopped; my feet are little tingly), truthful I stopped taking my meds.' But successful reality, you're lone amended due to the fact that of said medication. Keep taking the meds. Please."

–Acceptable-Drama-116

7. "CPR is highly improbable to aftermath idiosyncratic up; it's conscionable a mode to support organ relation until a idiosyncratic tin beryllium shocked oregon medicated. Even so, the immense bulk of radical who person CPR performed connected them volition inactive die."

–MizStazya

8. "Most radical don't cognize however devastating uncontrolled diabetes tin be. It tin pb to amputations, kidney failure, and death."

–dawnpwh1

"Diabetes is the number-one cause of kidney failure. When your humor sweetener is truly high, it acts similar tiny shards of solid successful your nephrons (the small filters successful your kindeys) and fundamentally kills them. Same with precocious humor pressure. It's similar putting a occurrence hose connected a plot bed. Take your meds, and power your diseases arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. Don't extremity up connected dialysis."

–aluccialamp

9. "You tin person a babe with a catheter in, due to the fact that you person some a urethra and vagina hole. I cannot archer you however galore times patients inquire astir this. And yes, we ideally region the catheter earlier birth, but the communal misconception is this impedes the baby's descent."

–EquipmentNo5776

"Also, you cannot spot your vagina erstwhile you're not wearing underwear. It's my favored peeve erstwhile world stars accidental someone's vagina is showing."

–lighthouser41

10. "Most radical don't recognize that we tin archer definite diagnoses conscionable by looking astatine people. Like, random radical astatine the market store, oregon passing by connected the sidewalk — you tin archer they person bosom nonaccomplishment (if they person terrible edema successful their legs oregon jugular vein distention). It's benignant of interesting, but feels intrusive sometimes."

–JessicaMeatpoop

"You can't un-know what you know. 

I was successful religion with my parents 1 greeting and got a truly atrocious whiff of a diabetic ulcer from someone. It drove maine nuts knowing idiosyncratic had thing truly atrocious was going on, perchance untreated, and I wasn't definite who."

–MoaningLisaSimpson

11. "Medicate your children with an due dose of Tylenol oregon Motrin for fever. So galore parents don't medicate their kids, oregon they under-medicate. And re-assess your medicine each fewer hours. Also, a cough doesn't warrant a travel to the ER. It's not beneficial to cognize that you oregon your kid has a virus... Just portion tons of fluids and dainty your symptoms. It conscionable has to tally its course."

–kristennicole1795

"I've seen immoderate parents who don't adjacent dainty a fever, and their reasoning is, 'Well, I wanted you to spot that they had a fever and I wasn't lying.'"

–Professional-Belt805

12. "Don't instrumentality Tylenol erstwhile drinking, oregon successful the adjacent time afterward. Many of my friends utilized to instrumentality it towards their past drinks astatine the extremity of the nighttime to forestall their hangovers. But I wouldn't adjacent instrumentality it the greeting after."

–SweatyLychee

13. "If your nutrient oregon portion 'goes down the incorrect pipe,' the remedy is NOT to pursuit it with much liquids. Unless you privation to aspirate. Instead, cough it out."

–poundpuppycooler

14. "I'm astonished however galore radical bash not cognize however to hitch decently (for some themselves and/or their kids)."

–Kiwigoagain

"It's ever the small aged ladies who instrumentality 2 squares of tissue-thin, one-ply toilet paper, crumple it into a small ball, pinch it betwixt each 5 of their fingers, and past scope each the mode backmost and aggressively smear their fresh, pasty bowel question into their vagina and past propulsion their pants up."

–Sad_Pineapple_97

"Wiping beforehand to back. The fig of pupil nurses successful my people who didn't cognize this was concerning."

–PurpleSailor

15. "We tin get radical backmost aft their bosom stops, but astir of them volition dice anyway. The bulk won't ever permission the hospital, immoderate of them volition dice astatine location wrong a fewer months and very, precise fewer volition past the year."

–Ill_Administration76

16. "Medications person 2 names — the marque sanction and the method sanction — but they are inactive the aforesaid nonstop medication, and volition enactment the same."

–hungoverpandabear

"Tylenol is to acetaminophen arsenic Kleenex is to tissues."

–Traisdaw

17. "I've seen this excessively galore times, but the ER is not first-come, first-serve. There's triage for a reason."

–Professional-Belt805

"Coming successful an ambulance doesn’t unafraid you a spot astatine the beforehand of the line. IDK wherefore radical deliberation that."

–Amityvillemom77

19. "Safe slumber for infants! It's truthful important to not person thing successful the crib, and spot the babies connected their backs. I was truthful amazed with however galore radical don't know!"

–callmepeaches

20. "Don't enactment thing successful the rima of idiosyncratic having a seizure. Including fingers, pens, a belt, a duplo block, a carrot, oregon a metallic spoon."

–ABGph735-745

"I person had truthful galore laypeople reason with maine astir this and it’s truthful frustrating. I archer them, 'Do you privation to beryllium liable for each of their dental enactment erstwhile their teeth are busted?'"

–RandyButternubsYo

21. "Hospitals are unsafe places, and sometimes you are conscionable arsenic apt to get good arsenic not. Some exigency departments afloat enactment up to a imaginable diagnosis, and others lone spot if you whitethorn request to beryllium admitted, and fto the admissions supplier bash the existent work. There are ever delays. It's overnight; it's a weekend; determination isn't capable staff; and the doc has 30 patients connected her list. The saying 'an ounce of prevention is worthy a lb of cure' is simply a existent thing."

–Signal-Reason2679

22. "The exigency country is NOT your superior doctor, pediatrician, symptom absorption specialist, oregon your dentist. Anything that's been going connected for much than 2 weeks is thing the exigency country cannot fix, oregon is lone a band-aid solution. Also, READ YOUR DISCHARGE PAPERS."

–MeiTheForce_

23. "You can't get the flu from the injectable flu vaccine. It's scientifically impossible. So erstwhile radical say, 'I don't get the flu shot, due to the fact that each time, it gives maine the flu,' I springiness them a large eye-roll."

–ReallyTheMilkMan

24. "Death is simply a portion of each of our lives, yet aesculapian professionals ticker families ticker their loved ones suffer, alternatively of passing a natural, peaceful death."

–tburd18

"I'm a hospice nurse, and possibly 20 percent of my patients person a genuinely peaceful passing successful their slumber with nary meds; the remainder usually necessitate a regimen for symptoms."

–Cool_Garage_1377

25. "When doctors permission you waiting successful the exam room, they are sometimes successful their office, Googling your symptoms."

–Ok-Cat1446

26. "There's a quality betwixt tolerable and intolerable pain. Sometimes, you're conscionable going to person pain, and our extremity arsenic nurses is to marque it tolerable, not nonexistent."

–Vegetable_Sell6563

27. And finally: "Your 98.9 grade somesthesia is not a 'low-grade fever' conscionable due to the fact that you typically tally astatine 96 degrees. You don't get to find what a fever is — we do."

–Vivid-Hunt-3920

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