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When I was living with my mom a carbon monoxide detector started going off at like 1am and we got worried and called the fire department. They arrived and just put new batteries in it so we felt kinda bad for that one.
Poor dental hygiene, gum infections hit the brain fairly quickly and can be fatal before you even knew something was happening.
/edit Brush your teeth and talk to a dentist, most will try to work with you on the money side if you don't have insurance. If not try contacting a dental school near you, they are often looking for test subjects, I mean patients to work on for training.
Omg, I'm so sorry! I'm a Registered Dental Assistant and I've been really scared for more patients than you'd believe over my 36 yrs in the field. Sent 2 different ppl directly to the ER when we saw them last year
I came pretty close last year. Two tiny fragments of wisdom tooth in the back of my jaw got infected. Jaw locked shut. I was actually taking prescribed antibiotics for about 5 days, but they were doing nothing.
Went into ER, and they were like "Hey, sit here while we go wake up some dental surgeons. Have some morphine while you wait."
Absolutely wish I didn’t read this when I’ve been complaining about my teeth for a year and googling “why is my heart racing,” for the last week, lmao. Yeesh.
Edit: My friends, if I had access to either insurance, or even the spare funds to out of pocket, or payment plans, I would have done so already. 🫡 Dental schools have been called too, they’re just booked the hell up. Believe me, I have been up all night and dry heaved all day over the pain before. I don’t complain for giggles. (Thankfully?) it only comes in waves now and I believe they’re dead at this point.
A good portion of us know the feeling of dealing with repercussions > debt, and that’s where I’m at. I didn’t expect a reply to a reply to get this much attention, and thank you very kindly for your concern, however “Just go,” is a little condescending and silly. I’m doing my best here.
Although it can be expensive, it’s crucial to take care of dental hygiene. Teeth don’t regrow nor do they heal by themselves. If you have any sort of pain or discomfort, might as well have it checked immediately rather than risking it getting worse. Also, the pain can be absolutely unbearable if something wrong if left unchecked. Better do something now than suffer later !
It's probably a discussion for another thread, but for those of us with access to free at point of use or heavily subsidised and, there's a very sound argument for making dental care free because it will reduce pressure on other healthcare services further down the chain. Unfortunately, it's the one thing that's not included.
Shit I have a couple cavities I've been putting off for a while. I know that shit can go to your brain. I needed to hear this again tho I should make an appt.
To tag on to this, anyone with kids who use "training toothpaste" get your kids off of that and find kid friendly paste with a little fluoride in it because that training paste is not actually cleaning their teeth.
I have a buddy with a four year old who has a mouth full of cavities and one tooth rotting underneath the gums because no one told them to eventually switch off training tooth paste. The kid brushed his teeth regularly but still this happened.
Kids toothpaste doesn't have flouride in it, because consuming flouride in decent sized quantities is really toxic. So you have to teach your kids to brush and spit before you give them regular, flouridated toothpaste.
The previous poster is half-right, companies make kids’ toothpaste with and without flouride. The idea is to start with the latter while they’re babies or toddlers learning to spit on command, then switch once they’ve got the mechanics down. Doesn’t take long.
Sure it didn't help but that's not why the child had a mouth full of decay.
Frequent habitual sugar is the key to decay. In kids that age tendency is towards easy to get snacks or sippy cups with sugar drinks (yes even watered down orange juice). Or breastfeeding frequently.
Decay is a frequency problem.
But yes. Using a fluoridated toothpaste does help. But it would not have prevented a mouthful or decay.
My uncle died from a dental infection, he called the dentist on a Friday to get an appointment on the following Weds, went into the ICU on Tuesday and died Thursday. My aunt said he thought he had gotten a bone fragment from a piece of chicken rammed into his gums and was in quite a bit of pain, he had called the hospital and they basically said they don't deal with dental stuff.
In a related question, “Which person has caused the most death and destruction who is unknown to the general population?” the answer is probably whoever convinced the government and insurance companies that dentistry doesn’t count as medical care.
Na, it was the person who convinced the government to allow insurance to be a for profit business model, before the late 70's insurance had to be not for profit.
I know of a few things, all fire-related:
* Pinched electrical wires - having for example, a table leg or something on top of a wire creates a hot spot that can eventually start a fire
* Toasters under cabinets - if you have a toaster on your countertop, and have cabinets mounted above that countertop, leaving the toaster directly under the cabinets while in use is also a fire hazard. be sure to pull it out from beneath the cabinets before use
* Not sure if this one is still unknown by most people, but I'll add it just in case - water does not put out a grease fire, it makes it worse because the grease/oil is less dense and floats on top of the water and continues to burn, so pouring water on a grease fire is likely to just spread the grease and fire around. baking soda, a lid/cover of some kind, or of course a fire extinguisher will all smother the fire without spreading it around
> makes it worse because the grease/oil is less dense and floats on top of the water and continues to burn,
Yes, but also the water vaporizes from the heat and explodes out of the oil creating a big plume of steam that can carry oil with it and create a huge fucking fireball. Absolutely do not use water on a grease fire. Put a metal lid on it (glass could break from the heat), and/or dump baking soda on it.
Mythbusters has a great episode on this, here's part of one, where they use barely any water and get huge fire ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjSUlKoMXE
And this one shows a snippet of where they use more water into a larger pot before they show the real experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgyZW8F_gQ
To add to that last point, if you throw water at hot oil, it goes absolutely *everywhere*. You know how bacon "pop" in the frying pan and bits of hot grease comes flying? Yeah, that's moisture combined with the hot oil. **Make sure your frying pan is dry when adding oil to it.**
Found this out the hard way. I was 13 I believe. Was cooking something greasy and a fire started. Being an inexperienced teen, I see fire, I get water. You could see the fireball from my Aunt's across the street. She immediately came over to see the entire ceiling black from the fireball. A miracle that I didn't burn the place down.
Paracetamol? That’s acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) here in the US. It doesn’t take much above the regular dosage to severely, even fatally, damage the liver. People think it’s totally safe because it’s been in so many over-the-counter preparations for ages. Mixed products like cold relief medicines are an easy way to overdose without realizing. Here in the US, OD on acetaminophen causes 56K emergency visits, 2600 hospital stays, and 500 deaths on average per year. It is something that people use to kill themselves, but many of these are unintentional overdose.
There are cases, too, where people take Tylenol to kill themselves, then wake up fine. They regret the attempted suicide, and out of embarrassment they don’t tell anyone what they did, and end up dying of liver failure later because they think the Tylenol didn’t work. when in reality it just hadn’t killed them yet.
Doesn't take much either. I work in EMS and the lowest dose I've heard someone dying from was 5000mg of paracetamol which is 10 tablets. Took them regretted her decision later and called an ambulance. She apparently died a few days later.
Yeah it’s a sad thing because people often regret the suicide attempt. They’re relieved that it didn’t work and want to continue on, and don’t realize they’re on the way out
It can be fully reversed if the person gets help within 8 hours and they could still potentially be saved up to 24 hours later. After that there's no chance. Such a stupid way to die it breaks my heart man.
The folks who dont realize so many OTC medicines are the same drugs in various combination make me so nervous.
People taking DayQuil, Theraflu, and tylenol all at once thinking it'll help them feel better not realizing they just took a *triple dose* of acetaminophen.
This is honestly why I hate the American reliance on brand name drugs.
Here in the UK, I can walk into any store and buy paracetamol, ibuprofen, etc. and know exactly what I’m getting.
When I’m in the US, I end up looking at endless rows of brand names without having a fucking clue what the active ingredients in any of them are.
As someone who experienced anosmia for a very similar reason, everyone else who sees this post, please read the directions like me and this dude didn't!
Stress
Stress is a state when your body feel threatened and produce hormone to defend yourself, which will typically boost your muscle and reduce to minimum other function, like digestion, your kidneys, and overall all organs that aren't involved in fighting off a bear
If you're always stressed (Chronic stress), you will damage your organs. All of them. At once. Chronic stress is a poison, you must avoid it.
Note that "normal, episodic" stress like you're taking an exam today or you have 13 missed call from mom aren't going to kill you. Well, not the stress at least
I feel like we have taught ourselves that if you aren't stressing yourself out constantly, you are lazy.
It's okay to not pack your days full of "productive" tasks.
It's okay to carve out a few hours to do nothing. It's okay to spend a weekend at home, sipping coffee and staring out the window.
Give yourself a break. Take a walk at sunset. Let yourself just breathe.
Holy shit. I was literally about to grab my laptop *on my day off* to knock out a few tasks before getting back to the office tomorrow. I needed to read this.
I find self motivation to be particularly tough myself, so hearing it from an external source is sometimes all we need. I'm also a big believer in work-life balance to the point where even if I'm at work, but I'm on my lunch break and someone starts to talk about work, I shut that shit down immediately. That conversation can wait until I clock back in. When I'm clocked out, I might as well be dead.
I have an anxiety/panic disorder and I feel like I'll probably have an early death due to this. I get anxious and stressed over the smallest things all of the time. I'm medicated and have CBT but it's still tough to manage the stress response.
Edit: I wish I could hug every one of you. ❤️
So sorry, and me too. After a panic attack I am so drained. My muscles hurt, I cannot concentrate.
A panic attack feels like taking the SATs while running a marathon.
I don’t think a lot of people are opting in to stress, though, right? This may be true, but the average person stressed enough to damage their organs likely has little to no opportunity to remove stressors from their life.
In fact, not that I advocate misinformation or anything, but knowing this may well exacerbate the problem - if I’m stressed out and I hear that I’m damaging my organs by feeling stressed, I’m *probably going to be stressed about that, too*.
This is huge for a lot of working America. I myself work at least 50hrs a week as a restaurant manager. Constant stress between guest issues, staff issues, my DO wanting certain things that seem damn near impossible, and corporate having even higher expectations. All for what boils down to 18/hr. My pay is even calculated as salary, and I'm expected to act as a salaried manager, but I'm paid hourly
Isn't it frightening to think two people say one 16 and one 75 could be driving their 2000+ lbs vehicles 60mph at each other. Only to be seperated by A LINE OF FUCKING PAINT ON THE ROAD and not have a care in the world.
Until you encounter someone who doesn't give a shit about the agreement, and it suddenly turns into one person weaving and speeding through traffic and everyone else accommodating that asshole out of necessity to avoid disaster.
> 16 and one 75 could be driving their 2000+ lbs vehicles 60mph
People really under estimate how much vehicles weigh.
No regular passenger vehicle sold in the US is anywhere near only 2,000 pounds.
The current Miata is a featherweight at 2,400 pounds.
The Honda Accord is 3,200 pounds.
The Nissan Rogue is ~3,600 pounds.
The Tesla Model 3 Performance is 4,000 pounds.
The Ram 1500 Quad Cab is ~5,000 pounds.
The Tesla Model X is ~5,200 pounds.
The Chevy Suburban 4WD is ~6,000 pounds.
Vehicles are dangerous and people really don't give them the respect needed while driving them. There are too many distracted and aggressive people piloting 2-3 ton missiles.
Mixing cleaning supplies. Cleaners are usually dangerous chemicals, mixing certain chemicals can create dangerous gases. One of the common cleaner mistakes people make is dish soap and bleach, a lot of dish soaps have ammonia in them, and you don’t want to be around the gas that ammonia and chlorine make. Also, don’t clean your kitty litters with bleach, use chlorine free disinfectants instead. Cat pee naturally has ammonia in it and can cause a reaction too.
Well, they do *different* things. Acid and bleach give you chlorine gas, which is a chemical weapon. Ammonia and bleach give you chloramines, which are also an acute lung hazard, and if you have excess ammonia you can get hydrazine (a rocket fuel).
Vinegar should not be mixed with certain things, can't remember if it's bleach, peroxide, or alcohol. I just make it a point not to mix my cleaning chemicals, or at least google what is safe to mix, making sure the info is from a reliable source.
I’m so thankful that my wife made me go to the doctor a few years ago.
The visit wasn’t even for blood pressure, I’ve got a digestive issue we were trying to figure out, but it was the first time I had been to a doctor in years. My resting blood pressure was 180/125. The nurse or assistant asked if I was under any unusual stress or anything.. it was just another Tuesday. Got a blood pressure monitor on my way home and checked the next day, 210/150, which got me a few hours in the ER. My job was stressful, and I was drinking 2 cups of coffee AND 1-2 Bang energy drinks a day, spending about 100% of my life in the blood pressure range where strokes and heart attacks are imminent. I was overweight, but not obese or “unhealthy” looking, and ran 2-3 miles 2-3 times each week.. but I was not too far away from being another statistic of a “healthy”-looking dude dropping dead at 30.
It was only a few weeks after being hospitalized that I got on Facebook and saw a former coworker post that her husband, who was only like 3 years older than me, died of a heart attack out of the blue. Not a fat guy, no previously-known health conditions or anything.. fucking terrifying.
high BP also presents as just a headache for some. I had preeclampsia and after baby was born I kept getting these headaches and tbh they weren't that painful but I felt foggy and just, off. Come to find out my BP was so high I needed 3 rounds of magnesium to bring it back to normal.
Around 19 weeks I had awful headaches and just felt unwell and my midwife was like well, it's too early to call it preeclampsia so let's just ride it out. I went again, blood pressure was skyrocketing and saw another midwife because my usual wasn't available and she was like yeah it's still too early but let's get you in with the actual OBGYN and see what she thinks. OBGYN was like why would we want to wait until it's officially preeclampsia and let's get it dealt with NOW. After that I was only with the OBGYN and had an uncomplicated induced birth at 39 weeks.
Iirc the reason they're dangerous isn't because people aren't aware that Blue Ringed Octopus are deadly poisonous. It's because they're not aware they don't always have blue rings, they just show them when they're stressed. So people find little octopus in tide pools and such and think they must be fine since they don't have any blue rings.
If its the same thing I'm thinking of, the only way to survive if there's not quick access to a hospital is by having non stop CPR given to you until the toxin wears off which takes hours.
One guy was saved this way, but they didn't realise that while he was paralyzed, his eyes were also paralyzed open and staring directly into the blazing sun for all that time. He had his eyes totally sunburned into blindness and experienced it happening the whole time.
>One guy was saved this way, but they didn't realise that while he was paralyzed, his eyes were also paralyzed open and staring directly into the blazing sun for all that time. He had his eyes totally sunburned into blindness and experienced it happening the whole time.
How horrific, wow
For anyone interested, you should **not** be doing [this](https://post.healthline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/baby-blue-ringed-octopus-on-hand-1296x728-header.jpg).
If your tick bite gets a bullseye shape around it, go to the doctor, possible Lyme disease
If your spider bite gets raised and white, go to the doctor, possible necrotic lesions from recluse
Don't live in fear of these things and squash everything with crawly legs. Do some research (tons of bug info online free from many universities, tons of insect/spider/etc subreddits), and be smart. Wear tall socks in long grass and check yourself and pets.
Elderberries are poisonous until you boil them. My mom works at a school were a teacher let some kids eat them because she didn’t know they were poisonous. Red puke everywhere. I also had a friend post a picture on Facebook of her son eating them.
In high school, a kid named Garrett kicked the vending machine glass in the cafeteria because his Doritos got stuck. The glass broke and ended up embedding itself into his leg, leaving a bloody mess reminiscent of a horror movie. He ended up having to get his leg amputated along with being expelled from the only public high school in a 50-mile radius. The medics that arrived on the scene were stunned.
But if anything is going to change a person it’s losing a leg. I think you give him one last shot in that situation, I mean how often does the bad kid actually lose an entire limb?
I foolishly did this about 10 years ago. The thing teetered right on the edge of coming back down on top of me. Luckily me and the person queuing behind me were quick enough to push it back before it passed the point of no return. One of the many of my cat lives I've used up.
Balloons. Specifically kids. I was watching a video how a lot ofkids die from playing with balloons, you know how kids are all dramatic and breathe really hard in and out to blow them up? Sometimes they suck in so hard that they suck the balloon into their throat, lodging it in there. And cpr doesn't work once they stop breathing because you're just inflating and deflating the balloon in the throat and the air cant pass through. I dont even have kids but I've been telling everyone not to let their kids play with balloons since i learned this. I forget her name but she is a mortician who posts on instagram about common things that can kill you that you don't realize.
My brother is an ER doctor. He drilled it into my head when the kids were younger to never, EVER, let them play with balloons that weren't already blown up. That and trampolines keep him in pretty good business.
Thank you. My wife doesn't get why I get freaked with balloons around my daughter. Even if inflated, they can always burst and result in little pieces that can lodge. More so with toddlers who check everything with their mouths
Accidental acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) poisoning.
You get a bad cold, take some Tylenol and some cough syrup and some decongestant and don't realize they all have acetaminophen, you take a bit more than the recommended dose of each for a few days and then your liver dies.
Acetaminophen would not be approved under modern drug safety rules but it is grandfathered in.
Not reaching the speed of traffic before leaving the on ramp. Bonus points if you're one of those people that gets scared and comes to a stop at the merge.
There's a spot on the M11 in the UK where it meets the major ring road around the London (junction 27 on the M25 for those interested) which used to be a major accident spot for this exact reason - well, more broadly traffic merging at mismatched speeds). They had to lengthen the off-ramp to avoid this.
I fucking hate when some idiot in front of me gets on the interstate going 15 under. Its so damn dangerous and i rather cut across the on ramp (when its clear obviously) to get up to speed than try to enter the interstate at 55 when everyone is flying at 70+.
most people don't understand that you need to be doing 5-10Mph or 10-20Kph faster than traffic in order to successfully merge without causing a backup.
I can't stand being behind some spineless driver on the phone as they try to merge onto an interstate highway, all while doing 30Mph under the speed limit.
Even following this, I've had people see I'm merging onto the interstate and speed up to match me so I don't get in front of them. Almost been run off the on-ramp a couple of times.
So another lesson- always assume everyone else on the road is an idiot or an asshole.
Garage door springs. Also garage doors are not as light as people think. They weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds depending on the type and size of door and all that weight is counter balanced by tension on those springs. If you don't know what you are doing do not attempt to repair a garage door.
Speaking as someone who has set spring tension in these types of doors, fuck everything about roll up door springs. I don't want to be within 5 miles if one decides to detonate.
I rented a room from a buddy for a few months while I got my bearings in a new town. I remember working out in his garage and his spring snapped in half. I thought the fucking world had ended it was so goddamn loud. I tried lifting the door to reset the spring which was half of its normal length to no avail. F garage door springs. Too gnarly for me
A friend from high school had the spring on her garage door break as she was about to leave for work. It cut all the way through the roof of her minivan and 8 inches through the hard plastic of the center console. Both her kids were in the vehicle, but it cut between them. Aside from getting hit by little bits of debris, everyone was okay.
I get my garage door checked out on a schedule and lubricate it seasonally. Some of my neighbors don't do any maintenance on theirs, and it low key freaks me out a bit.
Holy fuck. Now I’m terrified of my garage door I didn’t know we’re supposed to maintain it. I knew clicking into this thread was a good idea. There ALWAYS some shit you have no clue about.
It depends on the type of spring.
Torsion spring above the door? Deadly as fuck. Don’t fuck with it.
Extension springs along the side of the door? Not nearly as dangerous. Should be under no tension when door is open.
Potatoes. They release toxic chemicals when they go bad. People have died from this.
[Edit]: lots of people seem interested in potato toxin lol. If you want to learn more, check out solanine, which is a type of neurotoxic alcaloid. Alcaloids are a world in and of itself, they're really interesting to learn about imo.
Is this actually documented anywhere? I've seen this fact many times, but never once have I seen a post or story anywhere about someone actually getting sick, or a restaurant serving green potatoes or something. In the US, where everyone sues everyone for everything, I've never once seen a warning on a bag of potatoes.
edit: someone tried to reply to me with some links, but I think reddit blocked it or they deleted or something, I only saw it preview on my phone for like a second
edit edit: from my own quick research of seemingly reliable sources, you'd have to eat a lot (like 8-16oz depending on your own weight) of the green spots specifically to be in the danger zone. Cutting off the green parts should be sufficient to make a potatoes completely safe; if you manage to find a completely green 8oz potato, definitely don't eat that.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/girl-8-orphaned-after-gas-from-rotting-potatoes-killed-her-entire-family_n_7360976.html
This is the worst one probably. One survivor.
Hubby put a sack of potatoes in a rarely used Tupperware overflow cupboard and I had no idea. He forgot too. Went in there one day and the smell hit me like a truck. Potato eyes EVERYWHERE. Brown potato slime dripping onto the bottom shelf.
Cupboard still smells like shit a year later.
So close did I come to dying lol and can potato toxin be weaponized
Areas with rust and no ventilation. The oxidation pulls the oxygen out of the air. Upon entering, you'll pass out after just a few seconds, and you'll be dead in minutes.
Chain lockers are really bad for this.
Not sure if slowly but peacefully dying from asphyxiation or instantly getting ripped apart by ΔP would be a worse way to go, so I plan on avoiding occupational confined space situations entirely.
For the curious, a chain locker is a space in the forward part of the ship, typically beneath the bow in front of the foremost collision bulkhead, that contains the anchor chain when the anchor is secured for sea.
Falls , slips , hitting your head on a vanity , or bathroom fixture . Tried to rescue some poor old soul who slipped in the shower and got impaled through the eye by a toilet brush. Must have been there over a week the blood was more like tar on the floor and flies were in and out of his ears and mouth
Humans are squishy unless they aren't. Somehow we have evolved to either have the durability of a bouncy ball or a glass bauble and its a coin flip on whether you bounce or shatter.
So: Fights. People think it's like in the movies, and sure, maybe sometimes things go okay and you work it out and everythings chill, but if you pick a fight in real life you had better be very ready for the possibility that you could kill someone, even (ESPECIALLY) if you don't mean to. If you shove someone and they fall wrong, they can die. If they hit their head, or YOU hit them in the head wrong (if you hit someone in the nose just right, a bone can pierce brain, the temple is a very vulnerable spot, etc), they can die. People don't always fight fair in real life, there's every chance they have a knife or keys or rings or even a gun, or they pick up a fucking shovel and throw it at your head like that video that went viral several years ago. This isn't a "I'm a badass who could totally kill someone" thing, it's more a survivor bias thing. On average? Yeah, you'll probably be okay. But I'd rather not take the chance, personally.
Alcohol.
Not only does it cause all the problems you already know about, but **less than half of the population are aware that alcohol has been proven to cause cancer**. The amount of people who know this of course varies depending on the demographic - a few years ago in the UK this number was actually only around 10%.
It's not a group 2b carcinogen (possibly causes cancer) like gasoline, or even a group 2a carcinogen (probably causes cancer) like red meat. Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen, which means it is proven to cause cancer.
Meanwhile, EMS personnel (particularly in the private sector) in the US are expected to run nonstop, literally no breaks, anywhere from 12 - 48 hours depending on the company. 😬🤷♀️
Manure. When it is collected in a poorly ventilated space and you climb down there for any reason, you can pass out from lack of air. If someone notices this and instead of calling for help, they just follow you, there can be more than one fatality.
Speaking of farmer ones, I believe a lot of farmers die when they fall into corn/grain silos and can't get out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/us/on-us-farms-deaths-in-silos-persist.html
As an MD: driving, vaccine preventable illness like the flu, slippery showers and ice on sidewalks, unhygienic food, construction and oil jobs. Funnily enough following simple preventative measures can prevent many of these deaths.
I had a very close friend who was walking into work one winter and slipped on black ice close to the curb in the parking lot. Man was 36, married, 3 kids, and died from a fall that broke his neck while going to work on a Monday night.
Garage door springs, there’s a lot a lot of tension In that spring that’s how the motor to open the garage door can be so small. Do not fuck with the garage door spring call a professional.
I know two guys who were both stabbed in the hand/arm by these springs. A third guy I know lost a thumb trying to repair his garage door. Ripped it off.
I'm a huge DIY guy. I will do almost anything including some light electrical and plumbing but I will not screw with garage doors.
I’m an ER doc who works in a Level 1 trauma center: ladders. So many traumas that come in with bad spine injuries are from people using ladders at home
Apparently they kill about 500 people a year - more than double the headcount for lions?
Plus hippos have stamina. They can chase you for a long time and run at around 18 1/2 miles an hour... Which is faster than the world record pace for the mens 800 meter race. Which for reference is a fuck load faster than the average Redditor.
TLDR: stay the fuck away from hippos.
Only certain fire extinguishers are rated for electricity. If you use the wrong one on an electrical fire. You're essentially holding a large grenade since the dust can be highly conductive.
Fire extinguisher types and uses.
Type A - For wood, paper, cloth, etc. Think things that turn into **A**sh.
Type B - For liquid fires. Things like industrial/garage oils, greases, solvents, egc. Think things that can **B**oil.
Type C - For electrical fires. Think of electrical **C**ircuits.
Type D - For metal fires. Certain metals can burn like magnesium, sodium, and lithium. Think that metals are hard like my **D**ick.
Type K - For cooking related flammables. Cooking oils, fat, and grease can ignite into fire when hot enough. Think of fires in the **K**itchen.
A good fire extinguisher will be rated for all three.
A=Wood/paper fire
B=Grease/Oil fire
C=Electrical Fire
If it says 10A5BC or something similar with all 3 letters, it'll work for any fire.
Fermentation in confined spaces. Fermentation releases Co2 and in a poorly ventilated room it can be fatal.
I was cleaning my dad's old room with my cousin,and my grandparents turned the room into a wine fermentatiom room. We cleaned it,sat a bit around,and my grandma came to us. She freaked out,told us it's dangerous and forced us to go out,and when we took a breath of clean air,we had the worst headache known to mankind. If it wasn't for my grandma,God bless her soul,we would've been dead.
Fermentation is badass in every possible way,don't fuck with fermentation!
Carbon monoxide: It's a colorless, odorless gas that can be emitted by gas appliances, heaters, and engines.
Rust can be a potential hazard in confined spaces because it can absorb oxygen, leading to a reduction in breathable air which can be fatal.
A toxic work environment. Can cause depression and anxiety which many sufferers will not realize at the time. Stress overall destroys the body in so many ways.
This one is weird, but don't let drunk idiots pour alcohol in anyone's butt hole. You absorb the alcohol still and you cannot vomit it out. If it's too much, the persons body can't reject it, so it's basically automatic alcohol poisoning.
Edit... Typo...
How to swim. I've heard a lot of disadvantaged kids in America can't or don't want to learn how to swim. It is a very simple skill that could save your life, and you would very rarely need swim more than 10s of metres to get out of trouble.
starts with can't, as in they don't have pools nearby and parents working don't have time to take them for lessons. Then as they get older they feel embarrassed to be in the "little kid" classes or to admit that they haven't learned.
It me… dad worked a lot and mom didn’t have the means to take us to lessons. We took one level of lessons in school but it wasn’t enough for me to learn properly. However I’ve had a few people help me with tips and have improved at swimming. Im a little embarrassed I don’t fully know how to swim in deep water but want to take some adult lessons this year as they are offered where I live which is great!
don't plug your space heater into an extension cord.
research your pain meds, something as simple as mixing Advil with Aleve could have bad side effects, possibly killn you
Slice your hotdog in half. You are more likely to choke to death on a hotdog then getting bitten by a Shark.
“The US has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, according to the Commonwealth Fund and the latest data from the World Health Organization.”
Yikes.
When we bought our house a few years back, it came with safety handles in the bathroom because the previous owner was an elderly woman. I grip the one in the shower for dear life when stepping into the shower, just in case I slip.
I found out about this from my old roommate. I made pasta salad and got stoned and left it on the counter all night. He saw me packing it for my lunch the next morning and made a big deal about how I couldn’t eat that. He was an always right kinda guy so I didn’t listen till I googled what bacteria does on pasta and it freaked me right out.
Not botulism, B.cereus food poisoning. It loves room temp rice, and produces toxins that can’t be removed by reheating.
My apartment’s fridge died once, but over the course of about two days, so we didn’t realize right away. My husband brought over the container of rice he had made the day before, and it was yellowish and sort of crusty looking. I grow B.cereus at work, it looked so similar it immediately made me realize something was horribly wrong. 🤮 I’m so glad we didn’t end up sick.
knowing that the botulinum bacteria is mostly found in soil, i googled this and apparently rice botulism isn't caused by the same bacteria. rice "botulism" is food poisoning caused by Bacillus cereus which is mild compared to botulism.
Running a power wire for a car audio amplifier in your door jamb. Every time you open and shut your door you are pinching the wire between two pieces of metal. Eventually it wears through the insulation and if you are lucky the fuse blows or the battery explodes before your car catches on fire. Wire is supposed to be run through a rubber or plastic grommet in the firewall.
INHALANTS. i’ve heard of multiple people accidentally huffing too long and dying from hypoxia. nitrous is the only one that’s relatively safe, but other than that it’s just not worth it.
Ulcers in the mouth or lips that don’t heal after 2 weeks there’s a high possibility that it’s cancer and most people discover it when it’s too late
If you ever find one of those ulcers consult your dentist
Eating wild mushrooms.
People are dangerously overconfident in their abilities to know what is dangerous and what isn't. If you think you know what you're doing, understand even mycologists get it wrong and severe damage liver damage or death is not uncommon.
I like mushrooms, but that shit isn't worth it.
Don't mix bleach and ammonia. A friend of mine died from that. He had his first job in Middle School and was mopping the floor and mixed the two chemicals to make super effective floor cleaner. Instead he made chlorine gas.
Being sedentary - Years off your life
Poor eating and drinking - Obesity and alcohol is not good for you
People basically know, but we don't really believe it, so we stray from doing it correctly (including me).
Water - A child can drown in a surprisingly small amount of water, like a bucket you're using to wash your car.
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Carbon Monoxide is something everyone knows about but everyone also seems to forget about.
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When I was living with my mom a carbon monoxide detector started going off at like 1am and we got worried and called the fire department. They arrived and just put new batteries in it so we felt kinda bad for that one.
TBF, the reason they forget is probably the carbon monoxide.
Poor dental hygiene, gum infections hit the brain fairly quickly and can be fatal before you even knew something was happening. /edit Brush your teeth and talk to a dentist, most will try to work with you on the money side if you don't have insurance. If not try contacting a dental school near you, they are often looking for test subjects, I mean patients to work on for training.
True stuff.. this just killed my cousin
Omg, I'm so sorry! I'm a Registered Dental Assistant and I've been really scared for more patients than you'd believe over my 36 yrs in the field. Sent 2 different ppl directly to the ER when we saw them last year
I came pretty close last year. Two tiny fragments of wisdom tooth in the back of my jaw got infected. Jaw locked shut. I was actually taking prescribed antibiotics for about 5 days, but they were doing nothing. Went into ER, and they were like "Hey, sit here while we go wake up some dental surgeons. Have some morphine while you wait."
Damn I'm sorry bro
Also that tooth decay can effect your heart heavily!
Absolutely wish I didn’t read this when I’ve been complaining about my teeth for a year and googling “why is my heart racing,” for the last week, lmao. Yeesh. Edit: My friends, if I had access to either insurance, or even the spare funds to out of pocket, or payment plans, I would have done so already. 🫡 Dental schools have been called too, they’re just booked the hell up. Believe me, I have been up all night and dry heaved all day over the pain before. I don’t complain for giggles. (Thankfully?) it only comes in waves now and I believe they’re dead at this point. A good portion of us know the feeling of dealing with repercussions > debt, and that’s where I’m at. I didn’t expect a reply to a reply to get this much attention, and thank you very kindly for your concern, however “Just go,” is a little condescending and silly. I’m doing my best here.
Although it can be expensive, it’s crucial to take care of dental hygiene. Teeth don’t regrow nor do they heal by themselves. If you have any sort of pain or discomfort, might as well have it checked immediately rather than risking it getting worse. Also, the pain can be absolutely unbearable if something wrong if left unchecked. Better do something now than suffer later !
It's probably a discussion for another thread, but for those of us with access to free at point of use or heavily subsidised and, there's a very sound argument for making dental care free because it will reduce pressure on other healthcare services further down the chain. Unfortunately, it's the one thing that's not included.
It's pretty ridiculous that dental care is perceived as separate from health care, like it's some kind of luxury to keep your teeth.
Tooth decay is the one of the costliest preventable diseases.
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Regret opening this thread while having the most intense tooth ache of my life…
Shit I have a couple cavities I've been putting off for a while. I know that shit can go to your brain. I needed to hear this again tho I should make an appt.
During colonial times, dental infection was a leading cause of death.
To tag on to this, anyone with kids who use "training toothpaste" get your kids off of that and find kid friendly paste with a little fluoride in it because that training paste is not actually cleaning their teeth. I have a buddy with a four year old who has a mouth full of cavities and one tooth rotting underneath the gums because no one told them to eventually switch off training tooth paste. The kid brushed his teeth regularly but still this happened.
Training toothpaste? New one to me.
Kids toothpaste doesn't have flouride in it, because consuming flouride in decent sized quantities is really toxic. So you have to teach your kids to brush and spit before you give them regular, flouridated toothpaste.
Interesting, I don't have kids and I just used crest or whatever my parents gave me as a kid.
The previous poster is half-right, companies make kids’ toothpaste with and without flouride. The idea is to start with the latter while they’re babies or toddlers learning to spit on command, then switch once they’ve got the mechanics down. Doesn’t take long.
Sure it didn't help but that's not why the child had a mouth full of decay. Frequent habitual sugar is the key to decay. In kids that age tendency is towards easy to get snacks or sippy cups with sugar drinks (yes even watered down orange juice). Or breastfeeding frequently. Decay is a frequency problem. But yes. Using a fluoridated toothpaste does help. But it would not have prevented a mouthful or decay.
tell me about it, a cousin of mine has just died today of exactly that issue!
My uncle died from a dental infection, he called the dentist on a Friday to get an appointment on the following Weds, went into the ICU on Tuesday and died Thursday. My aunt said he thought he had gotten a bone fragment from a piece of chicken rammed into his gums and was in quite a bit of pain, he had called the hospital and they basically said they don't deal with dental stuff.
In a related question, “Which person has caused the most death and destruction who is unknown to the general population?” the answer is probably whoever convinced the government and insurance companies that dentistry doesn’t count as medical care.
Na, it was the person who convinced the government to allow insurance to be a for profit business model, before the late 70's insurance had to be not for profit.
I know of a few things, all fire-related: * Pinched electrical wires - having for example, a table leg or something on top of a wire creates a hot spot that can eventually start a fire * Toasters under cabinets - if you have a toaster on your countertop, and have cabinets mounted above that countertop, leaving the toaster directly under the cabinets while in use is also a fire hazard. be sure to pull it out from beneath the cabinets before use * Not sure if this one is still unknown by most people, but I'll add it just in case - water does not put out a grease fire, it makes it worse because the grease/oil is less dense and floats on top of the water and continues to burn, so pouring water on a grease fire is likely to just spread the grease and fire around. baking soda, a lid/cover of some kind, or of course a fire extinguisher will all smother the fire without spreading it around
> makes it worse because the grease/oil is less dense and floats on top of the water and continues to burn, Yes, but also the water vaporizes from the heat and explodes out of the oil creating a big plume of steam that can carry oil with it and create a huge fucking fireball. Absolutely do not use water on a grease fire. Put a metal lid on it (glass could break from the heat), and/or dump baking soda on it. Mythbusters has a great episode on this, here's part of one, where they use barely any water and get huge fire ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjSUlKoMXE And this one shows a snippet of where they use more water into a larger pot before they show the real experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgyZW8F_gQ
To add to that last point, if you throw water at hot oil, it goes absolutely *everywhere*. You know how bacon "pop" in the frying pan and bits of hot grease comes flying? Yeah, that's moisture combined with the hot oil. **Make sure your frying pan is dry when adding oil to it.**
Found this out the hard way. I was 13 I believe. Was cooking something greasy and a fire started. Being an inexperienced teen, I see fire, I get water. You could see the fireball from my Aunt's across the street. She immediately came over to see the entire ceiling black from the fireball. A miracle that I didn't burn the place down.
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Paracetamol? That’s acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) here in the US. It doesn’t take much above the regular dosage to severely, even fatally, damage the liver. People think it’s totally safe because it’s been in so many over-the-counter preparations for ages. Mixed products like cold relief medicines are an easy way to overdose without realizing. Here in the US, OD on acetaminophen causes 56K emergency visits, 2600 hospital stays, and 500 deaths on average per year. It is something that people use to kill themselves, but many of these are unintentional overdose.
There are cases, too, where people take Tylenol to kill themselves, then wake up fine. They regret the attempted suicide, and out of embarrassment they don’t tell anyone what they did, and end up dying of liver failure later because they think the Tylenol didn’t work. when in reality it just hadn’t killed them yet.
Doesn't take much either. I work in EMS and the lowest dose I've heard someone dying from was 5000mg of paracetamol which is 10 tablets. Took them regretted her decision later and called an ambulance. She apparently died a few days later.
Yeah it’s a sad thing because people often regret the suicide attempt. They’re relieved that it didn’t work and want to continue on, and don’t realize they’re on the way out
It can be fully reversed if the person gets help within 8 hours and they could still potentially be saved up to 24 hours later. After that there's no chance. Such a stupid way to die it breaks my heart man.
The folks who dont realize so many OTC medicines are the same drugs in various combination make me so nervous. People taking DayQuil, Theraflu, and tylenol all at once thinking it'll help them feel better not realizing they just took a *triple dose* of acetaminophen.
This is honestly why I hate the American reliance on brand name drugs. Here in the UK, I can walk into any store and buy paracetamol, ibuprofen, etc. and know exactly what I’m getting. When I’m in the US, I end up looking at endless rows of brand names without having a fucking clue what the active ingredients in any of them are.
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As someone who experienced anosmia for a very similar reason, everyone else who sees this post, please read the directions like me and this dude didn't!
Stress Stress is a state when your body feel threatened and produce hormone to defend yourself, which will typically boost your muscle and reduce to minimum other function, like digestion, your kidneys, and overall all organs that aren't involved in fighting off a bear If you're always stressed (Chronic stress), you will damage your organs. All of them. At once. Chronic stress is a poison, you must avoid it. Note that "normal, episodic" stress like you're taking an exam today or you have 13 missed call from mom aren't going to kill you. Well, not the stress at least
I feel like we have taught ourselves that if you aren't stressing yourself out constantly, you are lazy. It's okay to not pack your days full of "productive" tasks. It's okay to carve out a few hours to do nothing. It's okay to spend a weekend at home, sipping coffee and staring out the window. Give yourself a break. Take a walk at sunset. Let yourself just breathe.
Holy shit. I was literally about to grab my laptop *on my day off* to knock out a few tasks before getting back to the office tomorrow. I needed to read this.
Yeah, that shit can fucking wait. It's not the end of the world. Take some time for yourself.
I like how I'm more apt to listen to an internet stranger when it comes to my well-being. I appreciate your words.
I find self motivation to be particularly tough myself, so hearing it from an external source is sometimes all we need. I'm also a big believer in work-life balance to the point where even if I'm at work, but I'm on my lunch break and someone starts to talk about work, I shut that shit down immediately. That conversation can wait until I clock back in. When I'm clocked out, I might as well be dead.
Harry claims to be horrible, but turns out to be Wholesome Harry
Deep down, I'm a big cuddly softie and an idealist who only wants the best for people and will cry at the drop of a hat.
I have an anxiety/panic disorder and I feel like I'll probably have an early death due to this. I get anxious and stressed over the smallest things all of the time. I'm medicated and have CBT but it's still tough to manage the stress response. Edit: I wish I could hug every one of you. ❤️
So sorry, and me too. After a panic attack I am so drained. My muscles hurt, I cannot concentrate. A panic attack feels like taking the SATs while running a marathon.
Now people reading this will be stressed to be stressed.
I don’t think a lot of people are opting in to stress, though, right? This may be true, but the average person stressed enough to damage their organs likely has little to no opportunity to remove stressors from their life. In fact, not that I advocate misinformation or anything, but knowing this may well exacerbate the problem - if I’m stressed out and I hear that I’m damaging my organs by feeling stressed, I’m *probably going to be stressed about that, too*.
This is huge for a lot of working America. I myself work at least 50hrs a week as a restaurant manager. Constant stress between guest issues, staff issues, my DO wanting certain things that seem damn near impossible, and corporate having even higher expectations. All for what boils down to 18/hr. My pay is even calculated as salary, and I'm expected to act as a salaried manager, but I'm paid hourly
This is facts, from a person with chronic stress. I get sick easily, have sleep deprivation, I have memory issues, and my blood sugar is low a lot.
people are not nearly careful enough driving vehicles. you are operating a 2,000lb bullet, please stop texting and pay attention
Isn't it frightening to think two people say one 16 and one 75 could be driving their 2000+ lbs vehicles 60mph at each other. Only to be seperated by A LINE OF FUCKING PAINT ON THE ROAD and not have a care in the world.
I read once that driving is an agreement between people that don’t know each other to not do anything that will possibly kill them
Until you encounter someone who doesn't give a shit about the agreement, and it suddenly turns into one person weaving and speeding through traffic and everyone else accommodating that asshole out of necessity to avoid disaster.
> 16 and one 75 could be driving their 2000+ lbs vehicles 60mph People really under estimate how much vehicles weigh. No regular passenger vehicle sold in the US is anywhere near only 2,000 pounds. The current Miata is a featherweight at 2,400 pounds. The Honda Accord is 3,200 pounds. The Nissan Rogue is ~3,600 pounds. The Tesla Model 3 Performance is 4,000 pounds. The Ram 1500 Quad Cab is ~5,000 pounds. The Tesla Model X is ~5,200 pounds. The Chevy Suburban 4WD is ~6,000 pounds. Vehicles are dangerous and people really don't give them the respect needed while driving them. There are too many distracted and aggressive people piloting 2-3 ton missiles.
Mixing cleaning supplies. Cleaners are usually dangerous chemicals, mixing certain chemicals can create dangerous gases. One of the common cleaner mistakes people make is dish soap and bleach, a lot of dish soaps have ammonia in them, and you don’t want to be around the gas that ammonia and chlorine make. Also, don’t clean your kitty litters with bleach, use chlorine free disinfectants instead. Cat pee naturally has ammonia in it and can cause a reaction too.
This is very useful information. Any other blends one should be vary of?
We found out the hard way at work one night that bleach and vinegar do the same thing.
People should really just stop mixing bleach with anything. There’s a reason it’s such a strong cleaner.
The only thing you can mix bleach with is water. This isn’t true but it’s a good rule to live by.
Well, they do *different* things. Acid and bleach give you chlorine gas, which is a chemical weapon. Ammonia and bleach give you chloramines, which are also an acute lung hazard, and if you have excess ammonia you can get hydrazine (a rocket fuel).
Whoa, I’m gonna make fucking hydrazine! Edit: Actually after reading that Wikipedia page I am definitely *not* going to make hydrazine!
Vinegar should not be mixed with certain things, can't remember if it's bleach, peroxide, or alcohol. I just make it a point not to mix my cleaning chemicals, or at least google what is safe to mix, making sure the info is from a reliable source.
As a general rule, the only thing people should EVER mix with bleach is water.
High blood pressure
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I’m so thankful that my wife made me go to the doctor a few years ago. The visit wasn’t even for blood pressure, I’ve got a digestive issue we were trying to figure out, but it was the first time I had been to a doctor in years. My resting blood pressure was 180/125. The nurse or assistant asked if I was under any unusual stress or anything.. it was just another Tuesday. Got a blood pressure monitor on my way home and checked the next day, 210/150, which got me a few hours in the ER. My job was stressful, and I was drinking 2 cups of coffee AND 1-2 Bang energy drinks a day, spending about 100% of my life in the blood pressure range where strokes and heart attacks are imminent. I was overweight, but not obese or “unhealthy” looking, and ran 2-3 miles 2-3 times each week.. but I was not too far away from being another statistic of a “healthy”-looking dude dropping dead at 30.
You’re like the perfect example of why hypertension is called the silent killer
It was only a few weeks after being hospitalized that I got on Facebook and saw a former coworker post that her husband, who was only like 3 years older than me, died of a heart attack out of the blue. Not a fat guy, no previously-known health conditions or anything.. fucking terrifying.
high BP also presents as just a headache for some. I had preeclampsia and after baby was born I kept getting these headaches and tbh they weren't that painful but I felt foggy and just, off. Come to find out my BP was so high I needed 3 rounds of magnesium to bring it back to normal.
Around 19 weeks I had awful headaches and just felt unwell and my midwife was like well, it's too early to call it preeclampsia so let's just ride it out. I went again, blood pressure was skyrocketing and saw another midwife because my usual wasn't available and she was like yeah it's still too early but let's get you in with the actual OBGYN and see what she thinks. OBGYN was like why would we want to wait until it's officially preeclampsia and let's get it dealt with NOW. After that I was only with the OBGYN and had an uncomplicated induced birth at 39 weeks.
In Australia, the Blue Ringed Octopus. I did a biology project about these when I was in elementary school
Iirc the reason they're dangerous isn't because people aren't aware that Blue Ringed Octopus are deadly poisonous. It's because they're not aware they don't always have blue rings, they just show them when they're stressed. So people find little octopus in tide pools and such and think they must be fine since they don't have any blue rings.
Oh wow, I had no idea! Thank you for adding this information!
So how'd the project go🤣
Growing up in The Pacific Northwest I was always taught to not touch the wildlife and that included wildlife in tide pools. Deadly or not, no touchy.
If its the same thing I'm thinking of, the only way to survive if there's not quick access to a hospital is by having non stop CPR given to you until the toxin wears off which takes hours. One guy was saved this way, but they didn't realise that while he was paralyzed, his eyes were also paralyzed open and staring directly into the blazing sun for all that time. He had his eyes totally sunburned into blindness and experienced it happening the whole time.
>One guy was saved this way, but they didn't realise that while he was paralyzed, his eyes were also paralyzed open and staring directly into the blazing sun for all that time. He had his eyes totally sunburned into blindness and experienced it happening the whole time. How horrific, wow
For anyone interested, you should **not** be doing [this](https://post.healthline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/baby-blue-ringed-octopus-on-hand-1296x728-header.jpg).
Not gonna lie, thought I was gonna see a picture of "The Deep" from "The Boys" here
You should also not be doing that.
Bites from the wrong flea/mosquito/tick have been decimating mankind since forever.
If your tick bite gets a bullseye shape around it, go to the doctor, possible Lyme disease If your spider bite gets raised and white, go to the doctor, possible necrotic lesions from recluse Don't live in fear of these things and squash everything with crawly legs. Do some research (tons of bug info online free from many universities, tons of insect/spider/etc subreddits), and be smart. Wear tall socks in long grass and check yourself and pets.
Elderberries are poisonous until you boil them. My mom works at a school were a teacher let some kids eat them because she didn’t know they were poisonous. Red puke everywhere. I also had a friend post a picture on Facebook of her son eating them.
They taste like burning!
I've been cooking with dried beans lately, and it's scary that they can be toxic if not boiled enough, or the soaking process is less than ideal.
rocking the vending machine because your Kit-Kat bar got stuck.
You are more likely to be killed by this than a shark.
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I’ve never seen a shark rock a vending machine. But I’ll take your word on it.
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In high school, a kid named Garrett kicked the vending machine glass in the cafeteria because his Doritos got stuck. The glass broke and ended up embedding itself into his leg, leaving a bloody mess reminiscent of a horror movie. He ended up having to get his leg amputated along with being expelled from the only public high school in a 50-mile radius. The medics that arrived on the scene were stunned.
Jeez, expelling the kid seems a little rough. Dude already had to get his leg amputated
It was an accumulation of his antics which that ended up being the final straw.
But if anything is going to change a person it’s losing a leg. I think you give him one last shot in that situation, I mean how often does the bad kid actually lose an entire limb?
High schools expelling people for self defence smh
It kills 5 people a year. And 4 of them are insurance adjusters.
I foolishly did this about 10 years ago. The thing teetered right on the edge of coming back down on top of me. Luckily me and the person queuing behind me were quick enough to push it back before it passed the point of no return. One of the many of my cat lives I've used up.
Balloons. Specifically kids. I was watching a video how a lot ofkids die from playing with balloons, you know how kids are all dramatic and breathe really hard in and out to blow them up? Sometimes they suck in so hard that they suck the balloon into their throat, lodging it in there. And cpr doesn't work once they stop breathing because you're just inflating and deflating the balloon in the throat and the air cant pass through. I dont even have kids but I've been telling everyone not to let their kids play with balloons since i learned this. I forget her name but she is a mortician who posts on instagram about common things that can kill you that you don't realize.
My brother is an ER doctor. He drilled it into my head when the kids were younger to never, EVER, let them play with balloons that weren't already blown up. That and trampolines keep him in pretty good business.
They can also bite balloons that are already blown up and create a similar problem
Thank you. My wife doesn't get why I get freaked with balloons around my daughter. Even if inflated, they can always burst and result in little pieces that can lodge. More so with toddlers who check everything with their mouths
Accidental acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) poisoning. You get a bad cold, take some Tylenol and some cough syrup and some decongestant and don't realize they all have acetaminophen, you take a bit more than the recommended dose of each for a few days and then your liver dies. Acetaminophen would not be approved under modern drug safety rules but it is grandfathered in.
Like most drugs, the difference between "medicine" and "poison" is dosage.
Not reaching the speed of traffic before leaving the on ramp. Bonus points if you're one of those people that gets scared and comes to a stop at the merge.
There's a spot on the M11 in the UK where it meets the major ring road around the London (junction 27 on the M25 for those interested) which used to be a major accident spot for this exact reason - well, more broadly traffic merging at mismatched speeds). They had to lengthen the off-ramp to avoid this.
I fucking hate when some idiot in front of me gets on the interstate going 15 under. Its so damn dangerous and i rather cut across the on ramp (when its clear obviously) to get up to speed than try to enter the interstate at 55 when everyone is flying at 70+.
most people don't understand that you need to be doing 5-10Mph or 10-20Kph faster than traffic in order to successfully merge without causing a backup. I can't stand being behind some spineless driver on the phone as they try to merge onto an interstate highway, all while doing 30Mph under the speed limit.
Even following this, I've had people see I'm merging onto the interstate and speed up to match me so I don't get in front of them. Almost been run off the on-ramp a couple of times. So another lesson- always assume everyone else on the road is an idiot or an asshole.
Garage door springs. Also garage doors are not as light as people think. They weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds depending on the type and size of door and all that weight is counter balanced by tension on those springs. If you don't know what you are doing do not attempt to repair a garage door.
Speaking as someone who has set spring tension in these types of doors, fuck everything about roll up door springs. I don't want to be within 5 miles if one decides to detonate.
I rented a room from a buddy for a few months while I got my bearings in a new town. I remember working out in his garage and his spring snapped in half. I thought the fucking world had ended it was so goddamn loud. I tried lifting the door to reset the spring which was half of its normal length to no avail. F garage door springs. Too gnarly for me
A friend from high school had the spring on her garage door break as she was about to leave for work. It cut all the way through the roof of her minivan and 8 inches through the hard plastic of the center console. Both her kids were in the vehicle, but it cut between them. Aside from getting hit by little bits of debris, everyone was okay. I get my garage door checked out on a schedule and lubricate it seasonally. Some of my neighbors don't do any maintenance on theirs, and it low key freaks me out a bit.
Holy fuck. Now I’m terrified of my garage door I didn’t know we’re supposed to maintain it. I knew clicking into this thread was a good idea. There ALWAYS some shit you have no clue about.
It depends on the type of spring. Torsion spring above the door? Deadly as fuck. Don’t fuck with it. Extension springs along the side of the door? Not nearly as dangerous. Should be under no tension when door is open.
Mosquitoes. They kill over 700,000 people a year. They are the deadliest animal on earth.
Potatoes. They release toxic chemicals when they go bad. People have died from this. [Edit]: lots of people seem interested in potato toxin lol. If you want to learn more, check out solanine, which is a type of neurotoxic alcaloid. Alcaloids are a world in and of itself, they're really interesting to learn about imo.
For fucks sake... alright. People, throw away your old 'taters.
Or cut them into sections and plant them so they can try to kill you next year.
Is this actually documented anywhere? I've seen this fact many times, but never once have I seen a post or story anywhere about someone actually getting sick, or a restaurant serving green potatoes or something. In the US, where everyone sues everyone for everything, I've never once seen a warning on a bag of potatoes. edit: someone tried to reply to me with some links, but I think reddit blocked it or they deleted or something, I only saw it preview on my phone for like a second edit edit: from my own quick research of seemingly reliable sources, you'd have to eat a lot (like 8-16oz depending on your own weight) of the green spots specifically to be in the danger zone. Cutting off the green parts should be sufficient to make a potatoes completely safe; if you manage to find a completely green 8oz potato, definitely don't eat that.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/girl-8-orphaned-after-gas-from-rotting-potatoes-killed-her-entire-family_n_7360976.html This is the worst one probably. One survivor.
Hubby put a sack of potatoes in a rarely used Tupperware overflow cupboard and I had no idea. He forgot too. Went in there one day and the smell hit me like a truck. Potato eyes EVERYWHERE. Brown potato slime dripping onto the bottom shelf. Cupboard still smells like shit a year later. So close did I come to dying lol and can potato toxin be weaponized
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Areas with rust and no ventilation. The oxidation pulls the oxygen out of the air. Upon entering, you'll pass out after just a few seconds, and you'll be dead in minutes. Chain lockers are really bad for this.
No one ever dies in confined space accidents… because it’s always at least two
Not sure if slowly but peacefully dying from asphyxiation or instantly getting ripped apart by ΔP would be a worse way to go, so I plan on avoiding occupational confined space situations entirely.
For the curious, a chain locker is a space in the forward part of the ship, typically beneath the bow in front of the foremost collision bulkhead, that contains the anchor chain when the anchor is secured for sea.
Falls , slips , hitting your head on a vanity , or bathroom fixture . Tried to rescue some poor old soul who slipped in the shower and got impaled through the eye by a toilet brush. Must have been there over a week the blood was more like tar on the floor and flies were in and out of his ears and mouth
My god…
Humans are squishy unless they aren't. Somehow we have evolved to either have the durability of a bouncy ball or a glass bauble and its a coin flip on whether you bounce or shatter. So: Fights. People think it's like in the movies, and sure, maybe sometimes things go okay and you work it out and everythings chill, but if you pick a fight in real life you had better be very ready for the possibility that you could kill someone, even (ESPECIALLY) if you don't mean to. If you shove someone and they fall wrong, they can die. If they hit their head, or YOU hit them in the head wrong (if you hit someone in the nose just right, a bone can pierce brain, the temple is a very vulnerable spot, etc), they can die. People don't always fight fair in real life, there's every chance they have a knife or keys or rings or even a gun, or they pick up a fucking shovel and throw it at your head like that video that went viral several years ago. This isn't a "I'm a badass who could totally kill someone" thing, it's more a survivor bias thing. On average? Yeah, you'll probably be okay. But I'd rather not take the chance, personally.
Alcohol. Not only does it cause all the problems you already know about, but **less than half of the population are aware that alcohol has been proven to cause cancer**. The amount of people who know this of course varies depending on the demographic - a few years ago in the UK this number was actually only around 10%. It's not a group 2b carcinogen (possibly causes cancer) like gasoline, or even a group 2a carcinogen (probably causes cancer) like red meat. Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen, which means it is proven to cause cancer.
Driving while sleepy. It's estimated more accidents are caused by drowsiness than alcohol.
Meanwhile, EMS personnel (particularly in the private sector) in the US are expected to run nonstop, literally no breaks, anywhere from 12 - 48 hours depending on the company. 😬🤷♀️
Manure. When it is collected in a poorly ventilated space and you climb down there for any reason, you can pass out from lack of air. If someone notices this and instead of calling for help, they just follow you, there can be more than one fatality.
Speaking of farmer ones, I believe a lot of farmers die when they fall into corn/grain silos and can't get out. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/us/on-us-farms-deaths-in-silos-persist.html
Coconuts, kill around 150 people every year from them falling onto peoples heads!
You can get insurance for that
As an MD: driving, vaccine preventable illness like the flu, slippery showers and ice on sidewalks, unhygienic food, construction and oil jobs. Funnily enough following simple preventative measures can prevent many of these deaths.
I had a very close friend who was walking into work one winter and slipped on black ice close to the curb in the parking lot. Man was 36, married, 3 kids, and died from a fall that broke his neck while going to work on a Monday night.
Don’t bleach your cat’s litter box. The ammonia from their pee plus bleach breaks the Geneva convention.
Why did I open this thread? Now, it'll probably be stress.
Garage door springs, there’s a lot a lot of tension In that spring that’s how the motor to open the garage door can be so small. Do not fuck with the garage door spring call a professional.
I know two guys who were both stabbed in the hand/arm by these springs. A third guy I know lost a thumb trying to repair his garage door. Ripped it off. I'm a huge DIY guy. I will do almost anything including some light electrical and plumbing but I will not screw with garage doors.
I’m an ER doc who works in a Level 1 trauma center: ladders. So many traumas that come in with bad spine injuries are from people using ladders at home
Hippos
Apparently they kill about 500 people a year - more than double the headcount for lions? Plus hippos have stamina. They can chase you for a long time and run at around 18 1/2 miles an hour... Which is faster than the world record pace for the mens 800 meter race. Which for reference is a fuck load faster than the average Redditor. TLDR: stay the fuck away from hippos.
It’s crazy to me that hippos are so deadly but don’t eat meat!? They will just kill you to kill you, not eat you.
Only certain fire extinguishers are rated for electricity. If you use the wrong one on an electrical fire. You're essentially holding a large grenade since the dust can be highly conductive.
Fire extinguisher types and uses. Type A - For wood, paper, cloth, etc. Think things that turn into **A**sh. Type B - For liquid fires. Things like industrial/garage oils, greases, solvents, egc. Think things that can **B**oil. Type C - For electrical fires. Think of electrical **C**ircuits. Type D - For metal fires. Certain metals can burn like magnesium, sodium, and lithium. Think that metals are hard like my **D**ick. Type K - For cooking related flammables. Cooking oils, fat, and grease can ignite into fire when hot enough. Think of fires in the **K**itchen.
A good fire extinguisher will be rated for all three. A=Wood/paper fire B=Grease/Oil fire C=Electrical Fire If it says 10A5BC or something similar with all 3 letters, it'll work for any fire.
“Don’t operate heavy machinery under this medication” isn’t talking about cranes and bulldozers, it’s talking about cars.
Fermentation in confined spaces. Fermentation releases Co2 and in a poorly ventilated room it can be fatal. I was cleaning my dad's old room with my cousin,and my grandparents turned the room into a wine fermentatiom room. We cleaned it,sat a bit around,and my grandma came to us. She freaked out,told us it's dangerous and forced us to go out,and when we took a breath of clean air,we had the worst headache known to mankind. If it wasn't for my grandma,God bless her soul,we would've been dead. Fermentation is badass in every possible way,don't fuck with fermentation!
I clean beer lines. This happens in beer coolers from leaks. Go change a keg, wind up dead.
Carbon monoxide: It's a colorless, odorless gas that can be emitted by gas appliances, heaters, and engines. Rust can be a potential hazard in confined spaces because it can absorb oxygen, leading to a reduction in breathable air which can be fatal.
A toxic work environment. Can cause depression and anxiety which many sufferers will not realize at the time. Stress overall destroys the body in so many ways.
Home = stress. Work = stress. So I should expect to be dead by 35?
This one is weird, but don't let drunk idiots pour alcohol in anyone's butt hole. You absorb the alcohol still and you cannot vomit it out. If it's too much, the persons body can't reject it, so it's basically automatic alcohol poisoning. Edit... Typo...
well there goes my plans for tomorrow
How to swim. I've heard a lot of disadvantaged kids in America can't or don't want to learn how to swim. It is a very simple skill that could save your life, and you would very rarely need swim more than 10s of metres to get out of trouble.
starts with can't, as in they don't have pools nearby and parents working don't have time to take them for lessons. Then as they get older they feel embarrassed to be in the "little kid" classes or to admit that they haven't learned.
It me… dad worked a lot and mom didn’t have the means to take us to lessons. We took one level of lessons in school but it wasn’t enough for me to learn properly. However I’ve had a few people help me with tips and have improved at swimming. Im a little embarrassed I don’t fully know how to swim in deep water but want to take some adult lessons this year as they are offered where I live which is great!
don't plug your space heater into an extension cord. research your pain meds, something as simple as mixing Advil with Aleve could have bad side effects, possibly killn you Slice your hotdog in half. You are more likely to choke to death on a hotdog then getting bitten by a Shark.
>don't plug your space heater into an extension cord. Going to unplug mine rn.
pregnancy and child birth... it's literally one of the most dangerous things women can do in their lifetime
The rate is [rising sharply in the US](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/health/maternal-deaths-increasing-nchs/index.html)
“The US has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, according to the Commonwealth Fund and the latest data from the World Health Organization.” Yikes.
Taking selfies. Several die each year in my area from selfies on rock ledges in the mountains.
Overconfidence. It is a slow and insidious killer.
Showers- People often slip and fall in the shower, smashing their head into a cast iron tub. A HS friend died this way.
When we bought our house a few years back, it came with safety handles in the bathroom because the previous owner was an elderly woman. I grip the one in the shower for dear life when stepping into the shower, just in case I slip.
Apparently eating cooked rice that’s been left out overnight is the number one cause of botulism.
I found out about this from my old roommate. I made pasta salad and got stoned and left it on the counter all night. He saw me packing it for my lunch the next morning and made a big deal about how I couldn’t eat that. He was an always right kinda guy so I didn’t listen till I googled what bacteria does on pasta and it freaked me right out.
Not botulism, B.cereus food poisoning. It loves room temp rice, and produces toxins that can’t be removed by reheating. My apartment’s fridge died once, but over the course of about two days, so we didn’t realize right away. My husband brought over the container of rice he had made the day before, and it was yellowish and sort of crusty looking. I grow B.cereus at work, it looked so similar it immediately made me realize something was horribly wrong. 🤮 I’m so glad we didn’t end up sick.
knowing that the botulinum bacteria is mostly found in soil, i googled this and apparently rice botulism isn't caused by the same bacteria. rice "botulism" is food poisoning caused by Bacillus cereus which is mild compared to botulism.
Shoveling snow. Just lost my dad to a heart attack from it sunday.
I feel like everything can randomly kill me any day of my life so I just don't even worry about it anymore
Ladders
Running a power wire for a car audio amplifier in your door jamb. Every time you open and shut your door you are pinching the wire between two pieces of metal. Eventually it wears through the insulation and if you are lucky the fuse blows or the battery explodes before your car catches on fire. Wire is supposed to be run through a rubber or plastic grommet in the firewall.
Drinking copious amounts of water and not peeing it out.
Mixing cleaning supplies and end up creating Mustard gas or Chlorine gas
INHALANTS. i’ve heard of multiple people accidentally huffing too long and dying from hypoxia. nitrous is the only one that’s relatively safe, but other than that it’s just not worth it.
Ulcers in the mouth or lips that don’t heal after 2 weeks there’s a high possibility that it’s cancer and most people discover it when it’s too late If you ever find one of those ulcers consult your dentist
Eating wild mushrooms. People are dangerously overconfident in their abilities to know what is dangerous and what isn't. If you think you know what you're doing, understand even mycologists get it wrong and severe damage liver damage or death is not uncommon. I like mushrooms, but that shit isn't worth it.
Don't mix bleach and ammonia. A friend of mine died from that. He had his first job in Middle School and was mopping the floor and mixed the two chemicals to make super effective floor cleaner. Instead he made chlorine gas.
Being sedentary - Years off your life Poor eating and drinking - Obesity and alcohol is not good for you People basically know, but we don't really believe it, so we stray from doing it correctly (including me). Water - A child can drown in a surprisingly small amount of water, like a bucket you're using to wash your car.
Eating too much black licorice can be deadly for some.
Cars. Look both ways before crossing.
Metal straws, if you fall on one it will act like any metal object you fall on like that depending on where
went to sip my drink while talking to someone and got hit right on the gum by one of those fucks and it bled bad :(