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(#2) Bug Spray Works Best When Not In An Ear Canal
From an anonymous Redditor:
"As an EMT - Basic student I responded to a man who called 911 complaining of a insect crawling up his ear. Upon arrival we ask what ear the bug crawled into, he says his right ear, but keeps complaining about burning coming from his left ear.
We noticed his wife standing next to him holding a bottle of insect spray, upon further questioning we come to find out she sprayed insecticide into his left ear thinking it would 'flush' the insect out of his right ear. I had to explain to her that our ear canals are separated by our brain."
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(#3) Combs And A Toothbrush Stuck Where The Sun Doesn't Shine
From cowperspie:
"Med student. A guy came in to the emergency department with two combs and a toothbrush in his butt. He had stuck the toothbrush up there for pleasure, but lost it. He tried to fish it out with a comb, but lost that, and tried again with a second comb, and lost that as well.
The kicker: he was there because he had gotten in a car crash. He wasn't there to get the stuff out of his butt. He volunteered the information after we asked if there was anything else we needed to know."
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(#19) She Had Her Child Put Her Hip Back Into Place
From an anonymous Redditor:
"Orthopedic Nurse here.
When someone breaks their hip the typical presentation is a shortened and externally (sometimes internally) rotated leg. I had a lady that thought her hip had simply popped out and had her kid pull on her leg to try and pop it back in. That didn't work, but regardless, she didn't believe anything serious was wrong at the time.
She waited three months before coming to the hospital. She only came in after she couldn't feel her foot anymore and her leg was swelling up from a deep vein thrombosis."
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(#9) Bleach Is For Cleaning, Not Your Cervix
From auraseer:
"I had a patient come to the ER complaining of severe pain and swelling 'all down there.' On physical examination we noted a really remarkable amount of swelling, and both the internal and external tissues were extremely red and irritated. She was so swollen she couldn't even pee until we put a catheter in. The physician did a pelvic exam and found blisters on her cervix.
We asked when the symptoms started. She said, 'Well it was itching tonight. I thought I had a yeast infection, so I poured a cup of bleach up in there to kill it. But then after a while it kind of started to hurt.' Yeah, I bet it did."
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(#1) Drinking Bleach Will Probably Start, Not Stop, Food Poisoning
From SaintAndi:
"I used to work at a lab in a hospital in a rural town. I got a stool sample from the ER that was basically a blood clot the size of a golf ball. Sometimes the ER gets mixed up and sends me the wrong specimen, for example, some kind of body fluid and labeled it as urine. I called the patient's nurse and asked what the deal was with the patient and if it was really stool they sent up.
The nurse I talked to said the patient thought he'd eaten bad pork and to prevent food poisoning, drank a concoction of bleach, rubbing alcohol, vodka, ibuprofen, and some Tums."
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(#17) Had Nail Polish - And Remover - In Her Eyes
From idot08bojangles:
"Paramedic here. I got called to a house about 11:30 one night for a 'girl with finger nail polish in her eyes.' Got there and the scene is crazy, people screaming and throwing things around. We immediately notice the mother holding down a younger girl and about to pour something in her eyes.
Nail. Polish. Remover."
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