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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:35 PM Apr 2020

What Would Happen to Your Body If You Actually Injected Bleach?

Last night, Trump sent all reasonable individuals’ heads spinning when he appeared to suggest during his daily COVID-19 press briefings that injecting disinfectant could help eliminate the virus from people’s bodies.

“I see the disinfectant where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that [by] injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number,” he said as Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House COVID-19 task force, looked visibly incredulous in the background.

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Bleach in particular has been touted as a medical cure for everything from seizures to autism for years in some conspiracy theorist circles, and have gained steam during the COVID-19 pandemic. As NBC News reports, proponents of Mineral Miracle Solution (MMS), a diluted form of bleach that has been roundly debunked by medical experts, cheered on Trump’s comments on Thursday night, with one QAnon supporter writing that the product served as “a good lung cleaner.”

Dr. Peter Chai is an assistant professor in the Emergency Medicine Division of Medical Toxicology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He says that most of the time, when he sees people injecting bleach, it’s usually IV drug users, due to an urban legend that it can clean your blood of impurities after you use heroin and methamphetamine. He says that when people have done this, the side effects are absolutely horrifying.

“Bleach is a caustic agent. It’s the opposite of an acid, because it’s more alkaline. It breaks stuff apart, which is why it works to clean surfaces,” he says. “So when you think about injecting into your veins, it’ll break things apart in your blood.” That usually results in hemolysis, or the red blood cells that carry oxygen in your body breaking apart, so oxygen can’t be carried into your vital organs. This can result in blood clots, liver injury, or most frequently, kidney injury or failure, which could be bad enough that it could be permanent and require dialysis.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/trump-coronavirus-injecting-bleach-uv-light-covid-19-989605/

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What Would Happen to Your Body If You Actually Injected Bleach? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
excruciating death agingdem Apr 2020 #1
yeah but at least you wouldn't die of the coronavirus npk Apr 2020 #4
Well, death looks like a distinct possibility. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #2
1 mL of bleach will cause chest pain and vomiting dalton99a Apr 2020 #3
My uncle (dad's brother) committed suicide this way. Drunken Irishman Apr 2020 #5
100mL injected causes acute kidney injury sir pball Apr 2020 #6
I looked up the metric conversions. Talitha Apr 2020 #7
The mere fact that we have to have this sort of conversation in this country.... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2020 #8
I use bleach for a deep kitchen clean occasionally Retrograde Apr 2020 #9
It bursts red blood cells and denatures hemoglobin. roamer65 Apr 2020 #10

npk

(3,660 posts)
4. yeah but at least you wouldn't die of the coronavirus
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 08:46 PM
Apr 2020

I guess that is one positive way to look at it.

sir pball

(4,743 posts)
6. 100mL injected causes acute kidney injury
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:24 PM
Apr 2020

The patient in this case required supportive treatment and eight sessions of dialysis, but there was no mention of further complications.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576498/

Talitha

(6,593 posts)
7. I looked up the metric conversions.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 09:53 PM
Apr 2020

1 ml = 0.20 teaspoons

100 ml = 6.76 Tablespoons

Good grief, the smell of bleach burns my sinuses.
How can people ingest the stuff? Ugh.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
8. The mere fact that we have to have this sort of conversation in this country....
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 10:03 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sat Apr 25, 2020, 11:48 AM - Edit history (1)

is a testament to how badly our education system has failed us.

The makers of Lysol and Clorox have actually had to create press releases or publish statements on their websites warning people not to use their products internally!


Retrograde

(10,137 posts)
9. I use bleach for a deep kitchen clean occasionally
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 10:38 PM
Apr 2020

Considering what it does to stains on porcelain - and my clothes - I wouldn't even think about injecting or drinking it.

(Never, never wear your favorite black t-shirt when handling bleach - unless you want to experiment with discharge dyeing.)

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
10. It bursts red blood cells and denatures hemoglobin.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 10:39 PM
Apr 2020

I used to work in a clinical laboratory so I saw what it did to blood spills.

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