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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 peoples 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 Trumps 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 Womens Hospital in Boston. He says that most of the time, when he sees people injecting bleach, its 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. Its the opposite of an acid, because its 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, itll 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 cant 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/
agingdem
(7,850 posts)comes to mind
npk
(3,660 posts)I guess that is one positive way to look at it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)If you're lucky you might get away with permanent organ damage.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)100 mL will turn your pee black from hemolysis:
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Painful, awful way to go.
sir pball
(4,743 posts)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)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)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)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)I used to work in a clinical laboratory so I saw what it did to blood spills.