#chemical pneumonia

[burninglights]

four years of lab safety training and the only thing that stopped me from smell testing the unmarked bottle of laundry detergent was the Safety Third jingle from the WTYP pod 🥴

#em.txt #you’re supposed to waft (wave your hand above the opening of a bottle held well below respiratory orifices to convey the smell) #all chemicals you’re trying to identify. did I remember this? did I fuck #did the episode of WTYP I was listening to as I did the cleaning become the only thing stood between me and accidental chemical pneumonia? #….yeah

[niishi]

I'm not sick btw. Vaping gave me a lung infection. I've been smoking cigs since I was 13 and VAPING Fucked up my lungs in less than 2 weeks.

#i havent been smoking cigs either just vaping #i smoked a bit at first but not for like the past week #i quit one time before using the juul and fhat never hurt my lungs #it was actually amazing bc i fully quit smoking with the juul #but then they banned the flavors bc “the chemicals were bad and theyre being marketed to children” #and they redid the recipe and then also came out with a ton more vapes that look like actual childrens toys #and now the juuls and every other vape kills my lungs #like ill be shocked if this lung infection doesnt become pneumonia

[an-undercover-bi]

Mom’s been really sick all day now too (coughing, lightheadedness, a high fever). Please pray for her.

#she’s gone to the doctor #her and my COVID tests came back negative but I’m hoping she hasn’t caught it from Hal since then #also her coughs smell like Lysol so it may be Lysol poisoning/chemical pneumonia #fingers crossed #I really need her to be okay #also if she has COVID I definitely will so 😬 #both of us are immocompromised and are high risk for severe COVID infections so things are bad! #not that Lysol poisoning would be a walk in the park

[juno-infernal]

urggghhh cannot stand the fact that i live SO CLOSE to the last run of mcr shows but cannot go.

i was injured when i saw them in oakland & i was so hoping that i would find a way to swing the ticket cost for a night at the forum where i could actually jump around & dance. but nooooo, i had to follow up that experience by getting fucking hospitalized for pneumonia

also i deeply regret not dropping big bucks for merch. the boy zone shirt, the tattoo shirt, the haunted castle shirt, the hoodie… i regret everything :((

#to be clear other than merch and getting viral pneumonia I do not regret the Oakland show which was amazing #but still. #my heart is going to break if this is their last tour #my chemical romance #mcrla #mcr

[savageboar]

urgent care nurse tried to tell me it's just asthma flare ups. lol.

#firstly not how my asthma works #it's activated by exercise heat and chemical fumes #second IM COUGHING UP GREEN SHIT!!! #AND I HAVE A RUNNY NOSE #I HAVE BRONCHITIS. #me: trying to be smart and treat this before i get pneumonia again and not spread it to ky coworkers #some fucking nurse that hates disabled and autistic ppl: uhm it's just asthma :) #fucker #im not drug seeking i fucking hate steroids i hate using my albuterol inhaler if it's not necessary #tf you want from me #hades.txt

[norrisleclercf1]

Thinking about arrogant doctor Charles who has been a dick lately but notices you overworked, overtired running on energy drink and about to lose it

A/N: Anon you're a god, this is also a way I can talk about ER Doc Charles since I've thrown my doc fic for him in the trash

"Seriously, can't even keep up." Dr. Leclerc or as you called him Dr. Devil scuffs ripping off his blood soaked gloves. "Bite me," You snap, trying to control your temper, all while reserving your energy.

4, 12 hour shifts back to back was rough, but the hospital was short staffed on nurses and you need the money. In a normal day you avoided being scheduled to work with Dr. Leclerc, and his need to be a dick.

It was bad enough he was arrogant, but had the skills to back it up, he was also being a major prick right now. "If you can't do your job, get the fuck out of my ER." He hisses writing down orders. "Your Er? I think you forget the nurses run the hospitals, not you arrogant self righteous, pricks." You seethe storming out of the room and slamming open the doors.

You needed air, you couldn't handle the beige walls and smell of chemicals anymore. The snow falling as you sit outside, not caring that your blood was running cold from the weather. Your lungs burn as you inhale the ice air. "Can't do this anymore." You whisper closing your eyes letting the night snow fall around you.

You don't know how it happened, all you knew was your eyes closing and then suddenly being shaken awake. Whining you blink hard, blinding light causing you to groan. "Thank fuck, you're not dead." You stop hearing the voice of Dr. Leclerc.

Turning your head you see him there, glasses on the tip of his nose and black scrubs wet. "What dumbass falls asleep in the fucking snow? Are you wanting to get pneumonia, or worse? Hypothermia? You're lucky I found your ass," He rips into you and you don't know why but the tears cloud your vision.

Dr. Leclerc freezes, unsure what to do. Groaning he stands up and folds his glasses and moves crouching to your level on the bed. "Please, don't cry, I don't know how to comfort you." He begs sounding so lost as his fingers tear through his hair making it stick up everywhere.

"Why are you so mean!" You yell, crying out of anger now. "Wha," "I mean, I try! I really do but I'm not a robot Dr. Leclerc! I've done 4, 12 hour shifts because nurses keep calling out! I've barely slept and all I've had to eat is energy drinks. SO I'm sorry!" You scream and cover your face full on sobbing now.

"Charles," He whispers and you turn angry now. "What?" You snap and Dr. Leclerc flinches. "My name, it's Charles. You still call me Dr. Leclerc, just, just call me Charles." He snaps and stands up putting his glasses back on. "Stay in here and sleep, and there's warm soup. Potatoe soap, warms the soul. And rolls. It's, it's whatever." He grumbles and fumbles around.

Opening the private room door, he stops. "You're right, nurses run the hospital. And, I need my best nurse not to die on me. So eat and sleep, be back in 4 hours." Charles walks out and you lay there and sit up glaring at the door. "I still hate your arrogant ass!"

#f1 #formula 1 #f1 fandom #f1 x reader #anon asks #f1 imagine #formula one #f1 x y/n #f1 scenario #f1 blurb #f1 xreader #f1 x you #ferrari charles #charles imagine #charles x reader #charles leclerc fic #charles leclerc imagine #charles leclerc fanfic #charles leclerc blurb #charles leclerc x reader #charles leclerc x you #charles leclerc one shot #f1 oneshot #f1 one shot #charles leclerc oneshot

[ausetkmt]

Pharmacist Lunsford Richardson made Vicks a household name throughout the nation, but his popular product did not do the same for him.

Even in his native North Carolina, where his most celebrated of chemical concoctions has been right under our stuffy noses and on our congested chests for generations, the mention of Richardson’s name elicits blank stares from all but those who study and cherish history.

Richardson’s salve, Vicks VapoRub, helped the world breathe easier during the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918 and during the countless colds and flus of our childhoods, yet most of us couldn’t pick Lunsford Richardson out of a one-man police lineup, much less a who’s who of medical pioneers.

Why didn’t Richardson — by all accounts a creative inventor and smart businessman — ever become as famous as those vapors packed into the familiar squat blue jar?

Because his name wouldn’t fit on the jar.

That’s one version of the story. According to company and family lore, Richardson initially dubbed his promising new product Richardson’s Croup and Pneumonia Cure Salve. Realizing that this name didn’t exactly roll off the tongue nor fit when printed on a small medicine jar, Richardson changed the name to honor his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. Another account suggests the inventive druggist plucked the name from a seed catalog he’d been perusing that listed the Vick Seed Co.

The truth may never be known. What is known, though, is that Lunsford Richardson created a medicinal marvel for the ages, the likes of which may never be equaled.

Croupy beginnings

A Johnston County native born in 1854, Richardson loved chemistry and hoped to study it at Davidson College. The college’s chemistry program at the time wasn’t as strong as he’d hoped it would be, so he studied Latin instead, graduating with honors in three years. He returned to Johnston County and taught school, but it wasn’t long before the young man’s love of chemistry got the best of him. In 1880, he moved to Selma to work with his physician brother-in-law, Dr. Vick. It was not uncommon in those days for doctors to dispense drugs themselves, but Vick was so busy seeing patients that he teamed up with Richardson, allowing him to handle the pharmacy duties for him. Richardson relied on his knowledge of Latin to help him learn the chemical compounds required to become a pharmacist, and that’s when he began to experiment with recipes for the product that would become Vicks VapoRub.

It wasn’t until Richardson moved to his wife’s hometown of Greensboro in 1890 that his magical salve and other products he created began to take off.

“He was a man of great intellect and talent,” says Linda Evans, community historian for the Greensboro Historical Museum, which has an exhibit devoted to Richardson and Vicks.

“Druggists at the time fashioned their own remedies a lot, and he created a number of remedies, in addition to his magic salve, that he sold under the name of Vick’s Family Remedies. He was obviously a man of such creativity.”

In Greensboro, working out of a downtown drugstore he purchased (where he once employed a teenaged William Sydney Porter, the future short story writer O. Henry), Richardson patented some 21 medicines. The wide variety of pills, liquids, ointments, and assorted other medicinal concoctions included the likes of Vick’s Chill Tonic, Vick’s Turtle Oil Liniment, Vick’s Little Liver Pills and Little Laxative Pills, Vick’s Tar Heel Sarsaparilla, Vick’s Yellow Pine Tar Cough Syrup, and Vick’s Grippe Knockers (aimed at knocking out la grippe, an old-timey phrase for the flu).

These products sold with varying degrees of success, but the best seller in the lineup of Richardson’s remedies was Vick’s Magic Croup Salve, which he introduced in 1894. And by all accounts, necessity was the key to its success.

“He had what they referred to as a croupy baby — a baby with a lot of coughing and congestion,” explains Richardson’s great-grandson, Britt Preyer of Greensboro. “So as a pharmacist, he began experimenting with menthols from Japan and some other ingredients, and he came up with this salve that really worked. That’s how it all started.”

Another version of the story suggests that all three of the Richardson children caught bad colds at the same time, and Richardson, dissatisfied with the traditional treatment of the day, which included poultices and a vapor lamp, spent hours at his pharmacy developing his own treatment.

Richardson’s salve — a strong-smelling ointment combining menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, and several other oils, blended in a base of petroleum jelly — was a chest-soothing, cough-suppressing, head-clearing sensation. When the salve was rubbed on the patient’s chest, his or her body heat vaporized the menthol, releasing a wave of soothing, medicated vapors that the patient breathed directly into the lungs.

Vicks in the mailbox

In 1911, Richardson’s son Smith, by now a successful salesman for his father’s company, recommended discontinuing all of the company’s products except for Vick’s Magic Croup Salve. He believed the salve could sell even better if the company stopped investing time and money in the other, less successful remedies. He also suggested renaming the salve Vicks VapoRub, according to the company’s history timeline, to “help dramatize the product’s performance.” Richardson agreed, and a century later, the name’s still the same.

Meanwhile, Richardson intensified his marketing efforts by providing free goods to druggists who placed large orders and publishing coupons for free samples in newspapers. He also advertised on billboards and sent promotional mailings to post office boxes, addressed to Boxholder rather than the individual’s name, thus earning him the distinction of being the father of junk mail.

In 1925, Vicks even published a children’s book to help promote the product. The book told the story of two elves, Blix and Blee, who rescued a frazzled mother whose sick child refused to take nasty-tasting medicines. Their solution, of course, was the salve known as Vicks VapoRub.

Expanding and experimenting

As successful as the marketing campaign was, nothing sold Vicks VapoRub like the deadly Spanish flu outbreak that ravaged the nation in 1918 and 1919, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Loyal Vicks customers and new customers stocked up on the medicine to stave off or fight the disease.

According to the company’s history timeline, VapoRub sales skyrocketed from $900,000 to $2.9 million in a single year because of the pandemic. The Vicks plant in Greensboro operated around the clock, and salesmen were pulled off the road to help at the manufacturing facility in an effort to keep up with demand.

As the flu spread across the nation, Richardson grew ill with pneumonia in 1919 and died. Smith took over the company. Vicks continued to grow, buying other companies until Procter & Gamble bought it in the 1980s. Through the years, Vicks continued adding new products to its arsenal of cold remedies: cough drops, nose drops, inhalers, cough syrup, nasal spray, Formula 44, NyQuil. And whatever success those products attained, they got there standing on the broad shoulders of Richardson.

Richardson will never be a household name, but his salve has held that status for more than a century — and may do so for the next hundred years. And for Richardson, were he still around, that ought to be enough to clear his head.

A cure-all salve

Vicks users have claimed the salve can cure and heal many maladies. Even though Vicks doesn’t say the salve works for these problems, people still believe.

Toenail fungus: Rub the salve on your toenails, cover with socks, and sleep your fungus problems away. Cough: For a similar fix to a nagging cough, some believe rubbing Vicks on the soles of your feet can fix the problem. Dandruff: Rub Vicks directly on the scalp, and your flakes may just disappear. Chapped lips: Petroleum jelly is one of the ingredients in Vicks, and some say the ointment can help heal cracked lips. Mosquito bites: If you smooth Vicks on the red bumps on your legs and arms, it can supposedly take the itch right out. Warts: Dab Vicks on the wart, cover with duct tape, and it may fall off in a few days.

Greensboro Historical Museum 130 Summit Avenue Greensboro, N.C. 27401 [phone] greensborohistory.org

See historical Vicks VapoRub bottles and learn about Lunsford Richardson.

#VICKS #Vicks vapo rub #Lunsford Richardson #Vicks VapoRub #spanish american flu #Spanish flu outbreak #1918 #1919 #pneumonia #Black Inventors

[mindblowingscience]

The lung-cell type that’s most susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is not the one previously assumed to be most vulnerable. What’s more, the virus enters this susceptible cell via an unexpected route. The medical consequences may be significant. Stanford Medicine investigators have implicated a type of immune cell known as an interstitial macrophage in the critical transition from a merely bothersome COVID-19 case to a potentially deadly one. Interstitial macrophages are situated deep in the lungs, ordinarily protecting that precious organby, among other things, engorging viruses, bacteria, fungi and dust particles that make their way down our airways. But it’s these very cells, the researchers have shown in a study published online April 10 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, that of all known types of cells composing lung tissue are most susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2-infected interstitial macrophages, the scientists have learned, morph into virus producers and squirt out inflammatory and scar-tissue-inducing chemical signals, potentially paving the road to pneumonia and damaging the lungs to the point where the virus, along with those potent secreted substances, can break out of the lungs and wreak havoc throughout the body.

Continue Reading.

#Covid 19 #Macrophages #interstitial macrophages #Lungs #Biology #Medicine #stem

[alphaman99]

Mark Flatt

One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.

“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.

“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.

“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.

Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.

“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”

“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.

“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”

“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.

“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .

“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.

"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”

“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.

“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.

“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.

“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”

“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”

“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”

This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.

Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.

[ihatemybody1111]

TIP ON HOW TO THR0W 🆙 (TW)

KEEP IN MIND I FOUND ALL OF THESE RECS ON A WEBSITE THATS WHY JTS SO FORMALISH IDK SNYWAH BE CAREFUL IF YOU DO THIS One of the biggest risks of inducing vomiting is the possibility of causing a pneumonia!

1.There is a point at the front of your throat that can be squeezed to stimulate the vomiting reflex. To reach it, you should place a finger in your mouth, and slightly press down on the area behind the tongue, where your throat starts. The desire to vomit will appear almost immediately, although some people will need to do this 2 to 3 times to be able to vomit, as the brain may try to block the signal the first few times.

2. Instead of touching or poking the back of your throat with a finger or other instrument to stimulate a gag reflux, it can also be triggered by gargling (with water, for example). Gargling should be intense enough to induce gagging and retching, which is a forceful contraction of the stomach, so that stomach content will flow back up.

3. Some people may have a heightened sensitivity to certain sensory stimuli that may provoke vomiting. These stimuli can include auditory elements (e.g. hearing someone vomit), smells (like imagining the smell of vomit or other strong chemicals like bleach), and thinking about tasting of unappealing food.

4. Although they are no longer recommended, salt-water mixtures are thought to upset the stomach, cause contraction and induce vomiting. It is also important to highlight that sodium solutions are associated with a risk of hypernatremia, which is a salt toxicity that can be life-threatening when sodium levels in the blood are severely elevated.

#tw weight #4n4t1ps #4n0r3xia #4norexia #ana trigger

[innominaterifter]

Question regarding the cockroaches: are they clean? I've always understood bugs to be fairly dirty, but given how you handle them it seems that isn't the case? Are these ones different because they're handled regularly?

These cockroaches are artificially bred in closed conditions and do not come into contact with anything outside their container.

Cockroaches that live in an open environment can indeed be unsafe since they come into contact with unpredictable substances. The main danger is caused by cockroaches that feed on human waste. Cockroaches, which prefer to feed on waste, are capable of carrying pathogens such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, pneumonia, meningitis and others. In addition to viruses and microorganisms, cockroaches can carry the eggs of helminths (worms) and amoebas on their bodies. The reason for their unsafety is that they come into contact with and eat completely different human waste and animal carrion. You cannot know what exactly this or that cockroach came into contact with.

Unlike this situation, the living conditions of my insects are completely controlled only by me.

To keep insects, I use either a substrate that I buy in the store or cardboard egg cartons (cockroaches love to hide in them). For their food, I use a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, and supplements from pet stores.

Cockroaches also love lichens, which can be found on tree branches (and lichens are very useful for them). But before giving them, I first freeze these branches in the freezer to destroy all possible living organisms that could be there.

Of course, I collect these twigs in the forest, and not near the city or in garden plots, because trees growing in an urban environment can be treated with chemicals against insects. And then I just risk killing my cockroaches.

I also monitor their condition and appearance so that they look healthy.

Some time ago I had a bad experience with excessively high humidity in their container and part of the colony was affected by mold, which could be visually observed on their shells. This mold is safe for humans, but insects can die from it. So I had to save the colony.

In addition to completely cleaning the container and contents, I needed to do something about the mold on the cockroaches themselves. My good friend was visiting me at the time and I asked her for help in this strange matter.

I am very glad to have such a friend to whom I can say “Code red, we urgently need to wash the cockroaches’ asses!” and hear in response “Ok, give me 5 minutes to finish my tea, and let’s go!”.

As a result, we first washed them under ordinary water in bulk, then wiped the shell of each individual cockroach with a cotton pad soaked in a disinfecting solution and the mold was defeated.

But I repeat: this mold was safe for humans. Thus, if you keep insects in closed containers and they do not come into contact with or eat anything from the outside world without undergoing treatment, then all ok.

What can create difficulties is a possible allergy to cockroach chitin. Moreover, this allergy can manifest itself only to some types of cockroaches, but not to others.

This allergy is treated with conventional remedies prescribed by a dermatologist. But of course, you should stop contact with the type of cockroaches that you have allergy (or protect the respiratory tract, mucous membranes, and not allowing contact with the skin).

In general, the rules for handling domestic insects are approximately the same as for pets. Some may be allergic to cats or dogs, others may not. It is safe from the point of view of disease to handle domestic rats or hamsters, but it is clearly not worth handling rats or hamsters that live in the wild¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#insect #cockroaches #roach

[fortheb0ys]

Pneumonia ⁉️ that's awfully, im so sorry 😭

Glad you got time off tho, I guess pneumonia is worth it

I've been alright 🙏 just wanted to see how you were and say hi 😋

-🥭

NOTHING CAN KILL CHARLIE BUT CHARLIE RAHHHH😡🔥

Came into work and was coughing up a storm. My boss told me to piss off and go to the hospital. Thought I inhaled too much of the chemicals with work with lol

Good to hear from ya and that's things have been well😌👍

#my poor lungs may be raisins in the future #☆*charlie's rambles #☆*cj's inbox 📥 #☆*anon asks #☆*🥭

[macgyvermedical]

Do you know anything about how you would've treated asthma in the 1930s?

The closest reference for this i have is from the 1950s, but with the exception of antibiotics I think this is probably fairly similar.

Asthma was understood as a consequence of 1 or more of 3 possible factors:

Psychological

Infective

Allergic

For psychological, which was really important at the time, you'd pretty much just use sedatives. For that we had barbiturates, ether, or paraldehyde, the former given as a pill and the latter 2 given as suppositories as needed. The goal would be to give a med that wouldn't depress respiration, but would cause relaxation. Morphine was not used for this, but codeine might have been. For reference, yes, barbiturates and codeine depress respiration, but I guess not as much as other stuff?

They could also do back rubs and foot rubs, and mustard plasters to try to draw the inflammation from the lungs to a different part of the body.

A note on sedatives/hypnotics: The more I get into 20th century medicine, the more I realize we probably don't do nearly enough for anxiety these days.

Back then EVERYONE was being treated for anxiety if they were sick. We were on top of that sh*t. While I don't think it's great to give everyone phenobarbital and chloral hydrate for a cold or after surgery, I also don't think we should be as stingy about antihistamines and trazodone as we are. Like, do you know how much better patients' lives would be if everyone got a PRN for benadryl or trazodone in the hospital if they wanted it? I honestly think hospital length-of-stays would go down. My hospital won't go further than 0.3 of melatonin

I think it would solve a lot of problems if patients could sleep (nearly impossible in a hospital as they stand without some kind of assistance) and have their anxiety controlled before it boiled over and required a sitter and chemical restraint.

But that's just me.

Anyway, on to infective. So in the late 1930s we had sulfa drugs, but not the heavy hitters like penicillin. Prontosil (sulfanilamide) would have likely been used for pneumonias at least in urban areas in the US and Europe, and assuming a bacterial infection, it probably would have worked to some degree (resistance would not have been a major problem at this point). If there were no signs of infection, or if it had been anywhere else, it would likely not have been used.

Allergic is probably the cause most associated with asthma today. In the 1950s it would have been treated with the new steroids prednisone and prednisolone. In the 1930s the best we had was epinephrine, ephedrine, and theophylline. The ephedrine and theophylline would have been given as a tablet, the epi would have been given subcutaneously or IM as a long-acting shot packed in oil.

Additionally, the advice to clean the house and stay away from triggers would have been given just as it is today.

Generally, breathing steam, giving expectorants like potassium iodide, and sitting in a comfortable position for breathing would have been common practice. Oxygen, if available was also given if the patient was cyanotic (we didn't have a way of measuring pulse oxygen saturation easily, so relied on physical signs of labored breathing and color changes).

#writing reference #medical history #asthma #respiratory

[bpod-bpod]

ROS vs Bacteria

Inducing lung lining cells to produce bacteria-killing reactive oxygen species (highly reactive chemicals that can cause oxidative damage) protects against pneumonia without reliance on antibiotics

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Yongxing Wang and colleagues

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in PLOS Pathogens, September 2023

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#science #biomedicine #immunofluorescence #biology #reactive oxygen species #ROS #sci art #pulmonary #lungs #pneumonia #antibiotics #antibiotic resistance

[pablo9306]

Social media challenges and their effects on us

For this blog I will be exploring six different social media challenges and their effects on us, the challenges on this list will be from the least harmful to the most starting with the Skull Breaker Challenge some details of the challenge: This challenge gained attention in 2020. It involved three people standing in a line, with the two outer people tricking the middle person into jumping into the air before kicking their legs out from under them. This resulted in the middle person falling violently to the ground. Ironically for the given name, it’s still the least harmful challenge on this list, basically the effects of the challenge are super dangerous as falling violently to the ground can result in head injuries, broken bones, concussions, and other physical trauma. So far it’s already really bad but the next challenge is one we have probably all heard of already, which is also known as the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge some details of the challenge: This challenge gained popularity in 2015 after Kylie Jenner, a big social media influencer, revealed plump lips. People online attempted to achieve similar results by using suction or pressure to enlarge their lips, often resulting in painful bruising or injuries. This challenge is one of the older ones on the list but is still being used as a challenge for social media. In severe cases, it can cause lip damage, burst blood vessels, lip deformation, and even infections. which is all horrible consequences for a challenge.

Next up on the list is the Bird Box Challenge some details about the origins: This challenge was inspired by the popular Netflix movie "Bird Box," people attempted to perform various tasks while blindfolded, mimicking the characters in the film who had to navigate the world while blindfolded to avoid a supernatural threat. This challenge posed significant safety risks as some people engaged in activities such as driving, cooking, or moving around their environment without their sense of sight. This challenge was something you could easily do and get a lot of attention on social media, the effect it has on us is the fact that while driving we need to see the damn road, same goes for cooking as you could cut a finger off. this challenge and the last are tied in terms of danger in my opinion but getting into a car accident or losing a hand is far worse in my opinion. Now, these are where the challenges get interesting and more dangerous, as the next one being the Tide Pod Challenge some insight to the challenge: This challenge was gaining popularity in 2018 and involved people, mostly teenagers, filming themselves biting into or even eating laundry detergent pods, which are toxic if ingested. Ingesting these substances can lead to nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, chemical pneumonia, and even life-threatening conditions some of those reasons are why the challenge is so low on the list, as these consequences affect the rest of your life.

Next up on the list is the Fire Challenge a little insight: This challenge involved people dousing themselves in flammable substances and setting themselves on fire. The goal was to quickly extinguish the flames. Some effects on us were when this challenge gained popularity severe burns can cause long-term damage physically, requiring extensive medical treatment and rehabilitation. In some cases, the injuries could be fatal. As well, when people started to light themselves on fire trying to extinguish the flames quickly is challenging, and having those injuries for the rest is horrible. Now, for the last one being so low was because it was not something funny or something where everyone can get up and laugh it off, that is the Blue Whale Challenge. Some insight to it: This challenge originated on social media platforms and reportedly led participants through a series of increasingly dangerous and self-harming tasks that got harder and harder over 50 days. The final task was to commit suicide. the effects it had on us is that people would do anything for clout, this challenge was just a long SAW trap in my opinion, this challenge exploited vulnerable people, mostly teens and had them go through psychologically manipulative experiences, basically resembling the horror of the traps in the SAW movies.

You don’t even win or anything you just got a few likes. It even normalizes dangerous behaviors. This shows us how far people will go just for clout. In conclusion, these social media challenges have significant effects on people and society. Physically, they lead to injuries and health complications and, psychologically, they manipulate people and can result in distress. Societally, they normalize dangerous behaviors and influence vulnerable people, especially teens. By implementing stricter guidelines, raising awareness, and focusing on a safe digital environment, we can minimize the harm caused by these challenges.

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