A Boy Drank His Mom's Essential Oils. This Is What Happened To His Brain.

Please consult your local poison control center in cases like this 👶
Megan and Patient BB portrayed by Megan Pulley and her son
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Molecular Mechanisms of Ischemic Cerebral Edema: Role of Electroneutral Ion Transport journals.physi...
Laryngeal oedema caused by accidental ingestion of Oil of Wintergreen. pubmed.ncbi.nl...
Oil of Wintergreen. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 31, Issue 6, 793 - 794.
Measuring a toddler's mouthful. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 43, Issue 6, 792.
Accidental Ingestion of Oil Of Wintergreen. The Journal of Family Practice, Vol 29, No 6, 1989.
Managing pH in Salicylate. toxandhound.co...

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Unessential oil

[@drewdanaceau8844]

Honestly, that kid vomiting after drinking those essential oils might have just saved his life. If that entire bottle had stayed in his system, he could’ve easily died, even with medical intervention.

[@CharlesReedPi]

Yep, easily vomiting is the bodies self panacea

[@RoanokeGaming]

I feel like you need to regard these things like any other medicine when you have children around. They get into any and EVERYTHING

[@georgejones3526]

Essential oils are not medicine.

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@@georgejones3526 I said they need to be regarded as such in terms of how they can absolutely shrek your body if ingested. Sort of like how taking 66 asprin or an entire container of flintstone vitamins is not a good idea either

[@triv4555]

I _literally_ took a sigh of relief when I heard "full recovery", thank goodness. I'm glad the poor boy wasn't hurt 🥺

[@welpeee]

Thanks for the spoilers

[@triv4555]

@@welpeee Not sure why you decided to go to the comments before watching/finishing the video but uh, you’re welcome 🙂

[@MsOkayAwesome]

I came to the comments because I didn't want to watch it if he wasn't ok! 😆 So actually thanks for the spoilers, appreciate it!

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@@MsOkayAwesome you're welcome lol ♥

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@@welpeee listen, I come to the comments *for* the spoilers on days that I don't want to hear about a patient dying.

[@ChefSalad]

In the beginning, when you said there was a three-year-old and the mom was into essential oils, I knew immediately that it was wintergreen poisoning. People don't know that wintergreen (as in the flavor) is essentially aspirin, and pure wintergreen oil (methyl salicylate, really) doesn't taste nearly as strong as you would expect. In fact, it doesn't taste much more wintergreeny than a wintergreen gumdrop does, even fully concentrated. This makes it extra dangerous, since it never tastes like too much. It's totally different than menthol (aka peppermint oil, basically) which tastes like concentrated minty ice with fire and burning. I feel like this should be something we teach people. And, yes, methyl salicylate is (a/the) flavoring that wintergreen candies and gum use (there are others, but the original is still fairly common). They're flavored with aspirin. It doesn't take much to give you the flavor, but adding more doesn't increase the flavor anything like what you'd expect, which is a big part of the danger. You can't tell how much you've gotten by taste, and the pure flavor doesn't taste particularly bad by itself, which is a bad combo when kids get into it.

[@zebraloverbridget]

Thank you for explaining this! I was very confused how/ why the kid would drink something that tasted horrible since other essential oils are not something you'd want to drink. Even kids won't drink stuff that tastes bad making it hard to accidentally swallow a bottle of other essential oils.

[@cycoholic]

This needs to be pinned. 👍

[@FSMonster]

Aspirin for flavouring? Poison in everything FFS

[@magnusdagbro8226]

@@FSMonster everything is a poison. What matters is the dose.

[@spicywolf6718]

Makes it quite similar to Eucalyptus oil in that case, you really wouldn't notice the difference between eating Aussie Drops - Eucalyptus (stronger flavour) and sipping a bottle of 100% on flavour alone. And I'll be the first to admit to accidental ingestion of 100% from cross contamination. For something that's used all across the country as a cleaning product I was pretty amazed at just how little it takes to ruin your day, and the difference between a non fatal dose and fatal dose is equally small. After what I experienced - both physically and mentally I'm pretty glad that I wasn't consciousness for the latter part of the ordeal. But before I lost consciousness I was told I appeared heavily intoxicated, slurred speech, inability to walk/stand without assistance. What was going on in my head was a lot worse.

[@dsofe4879]

Crazy, my baby brother drank wintergreen oil about 20 years ago. My parents noticed immediately and rushed him to the hospital where he got his stomach pumped and luckily was completely fine, but I had never considered just how much of a close call that was.

[@chubbyemu]

thanks for sharing. glad he was OK. the longer it's in the body, the more complicated things become

[@joelspaulding5964]

Methyl salicylate, in large quantities, don't play.

[@saps2007]

@@chubbyemu This reminds me of "The longer the Icon of Sin is on earth, the stronger it will become".

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[@yommoM]

he was able to make a full recovery

[@greentails150]

My favourite thing about being a healthcare student is that the moment I heard rapid breathing and fever my mind snapped to acidosis. I love watching these videos because it reminds me how much I’m actually learning

[@WiscoKnight0806]

Keep it up, we need more healers in the world.

[@jasonpollard5889]

I’m in a similar situation, I want to go to medical school after I graduate with my chemical engineering degree, and I recognized the terminology when it came to acids and the inability to flush the acid out once it bonded with the hydrogen ions… it’s cool recognizing what’s actually taking place!

[@goddamn3880]

@@jasonpollard5889 Is this possible with a chemical engineering degree? I'm also currently undertaking a chemical engineering course

[@jasonpollard5889]

@@goddamn3880 yeah! My friend’s dad was an engineer and he’s a radiologist, and one of my other friend’s stepdad got his Chemical engineering degree and he’s now a doctor! They’ve told me that they like engineering students for medicine because they know that you can solve problems and have good work ethic!

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@@WiscoKnight0806 I unfortunately don't think I'd be suited for the actual healing, at least right now. I've settled for medical record keeping which my mother, a nurse and the reason I think I grew to love healthcare, says is vital to how most hospitals and healthcare systems work these days. A lot of paperwork in my career but I am required to understand how the body and disease work so who knows where I'll go from there?

[@DuckHouse1]

I'm surprised he drank a whole bottle of wintergreen. As a toddler my son ate IcyHot (also salicylate) and I knew immediately because he was screaming (on account of the menthol). I took him to the hospital and they considered giving him charcoal, but they just observed him for a while. The doctor said that he almost certainly spit the IcyHot out and likely didn't swallow it. He was fine. I still don't know how he got the IcyHot. Toddlers, man.

[@a.s.h-]

istg toddlers will find everything no matter how hard you try

[@subtledemisefox]

My daughter did something similar when she was a toddler. I put some IcyHot on my bad back and a few hours later we were playing and she suddenly started crying and screaming because there was still residue on my back and she somehow got it into her eyes or nose or something. Thankfully it was such a trace amount that we didn't have to sit and try to wash it out or take a trip to the ER to have it professionally flushed. It passed within a minute or so.

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Wut

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Literally all his videos do this

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When you're trying to meet the minimum word requirement in your essay.

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You're able to walk this fine line of meme culture and actual advise that educates people about the body. Amazing

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[@Mayakran]

Right, I was just about to make a comment about that but you beat me to it (and said it with much more eloquence).

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@@MartinFinnerup insinuating some educators/scintists/drs? are not human 🤔 can you... not? that idea is in the core of every anti- intellectualism strain out there. and humanity doesn't need reinforcement of that trope... While it's ofc hugely beneficial to explain things clearly and in engaging way, not everyone has the skill and it's... somewhat fine. We wouldn't have enough people to teach if we expected highest levels only. We should be encouraging students/public to be more intellectually engaged and curious as well, regardless of how fun the material is. Some science things are complex and hopelessly boring. I know you didn't think anything bad by it, _intentionally_ and I hope you get what I mean... (nnes, hopefully I didn't mess up with grammar or something, too much)

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[@AurickLeru]

"BB was able to make a full recovery" Never was I more glad to hear him say that line at the end.

[@kumquatery]

Waited 13min for that relief.

[@Legohaiden]

Ikr!! I thought the poor boy was going to die towards the end. I cannot STAND parents like this.. My child when he was 1-4 never left my sight... This shit only happens when you let children be second in your life.

[@Latedozer]

It would've been awful if there was only A recovery. Wonder if the mother is doing better as well, though.

[@gustafandersson237]

Hmm, my child is vomiting and my essential oil jars are empty and tipped over. Was probably the wind or something.

[@Legohaiden]

@@gustafandersson237 Like a Skyrim NPC who took an arrow in the Eyeball

[@redblade8160]

I went into a health food store and I asked the pharmacist, “have you got any peppermint tea” and he said no, “but you can put peppermint essential oil into ordinary tea to give it that flavour” - I told him what I thought of him for giving such advice...

[@mariejuana2993]

Good for you. I hope he listened to you, you could have just saved how many lives.

[@jadeitetellurian]

why not ask an employee that would know where the tea is? pharmacists (in my experience and opinion) don't recommend anything they don't know about, especially essential oils and especially when they paid to go to college to specialize in pharmaceuticals

[@JessieHTX]

@@jadeitetellurian They probably weren’t a real pharmacist. Some of those “health food” stores are dicey. Self proclaimed nutritionists/dietitians/pharmacists/doctors.

[@loryndabenson2118]

Maybe he meant peppermint extract cuz wtf????

[@tobyholden9300]

Wouldn't it make more sense fore him to tell you to buy fresh peppermint and grind it up and make loose leaf tea?

[@MrPuncher]

children when you feed them: 🤢 children when they encounter a highly toxic and corrosive, foul-tasting liquid: 😋

[@blackbox8490]

why is this so true?

[@loftyradish6972]

Apparently Wintergreen oil doesn't have a strong flavour. I was thinking the same thing but another person commented about it.

[@dimplesd8931]

Preach!

[@PanjiAditya90]

So dunmer children is equally stupid to human children? Interesting.

[@llawliet776]

Child was dumb but mother was dumber.

[@bluebethlehem]

When I was 5 years old my little brother who was 3 years old at the time drank floor wax. I remember seeing him holding the bottle with the cap off. He was blue around his mouth. I took the bottle from him and ran to our Mom. I told our Mom what happened. The ambulance rushed my brother to the ER. He got his stomach pumped. He made a full recovery.

[@xxyy1318]

He owes you! Good job sis!

[@xenostim]

By saving his life you forever earned the sibling right to both make fun of him afterwards as well as hold it over his head to acquire things like the window seat or the last twizzler.

[@exantiuse497]

My little brother tried to eat my grandpa's heart meds when we were children (he had left them beside his bed, irresponsibly), we found him with his clothes stained with the contents of the capsules. He was taken to hospital for the night but didn't develop any symptoms. The drug tasted so bad he presumably spat it right out, luckily so as he very well may have died if he didn't, IIRC it was some real toxic anti-arrhytmic drug

[@ItsMe-ic7on]

Well that's better than quote unquote a recovery

[@mkultraviolenc3]

Oh Jesus, how terrifying.

[@Waspinmymind]

Remember to contact poison control. Little children put everything in their mouth. And don’t know the difference between candy and poison.

[@pvic6959]

honestly. even as an adult some oils and non edible things just smell sooo good i want to eat them lol. but the difference is, I know better

[@NotHPotter]

Pets too!

[@oldtimergaming9514]

Well, since candy, mainly sugar is also a poison it just takes a few decades to ruin your body.

[@monke6912]

@@oldtimergaming9514 you guys are stupid, poison dosent exsist but poisoning amaunt

[@Waspinmymind]

@@oldtimergaming9514 That isn’t really comparable? If drink enough water it can also kill you. Are brains are made of many things one of those being sugar. Completely avoiding sugar can also kill you. The dose makes the poison here. If you ever feel like avoiding‘dangerous’ foods maybe seek a doctor. That’s usually a sigh of a Ed or disorder eating in general.

[@thenightranger4253]

This is the first time ive ever seen a mother not connect the dots immediately, when she seen the bottle toppled over. Like i have a nephew and if i seen a bottle of anything empty on a reachable surface for kids i would instantly go to the kid and take them to emerge while calling posion control.

[@KAWASAKlBLAZIN]

Right I was like she’s dumb asf for that

[@TatsumiOga682]

She probably knew what was up, but was in denial because it's her fault that the kid was able to open it and is in this condition

[@ericjohnson6634]

My thought exactly. Did she really think the bottles spontaneously fell, or that she somehow knocked them over without realizing? How did she not run immediately to her child and smell his breath?

[@5roundsrapid263]

I accidentally drank humidifier fluid when I was a toddler. My mother called the poison control center, and they told her it was mostly ethanol with a bit of menthol. I was hammered, but I ended up OK. 😄

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Hehe when I was a dumb baby I drunk a little bottle of soap

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Menthol, not to be confused with methanol! THAT one will hurt you

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[@deerjuices772]

This one is extra scary to me considering the fact that when I was a kid my parents got on the essential oils kick and often times drank them/took pills of them/forced me to drink them and take pills of them. People should absolutely be informed about how dangerous they can be because everything that's seen as "natural" for some reason is always seen as "safe".

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

Mike Rowe had a great rebuttal to the “Natural equals safe!” thing on an episode of Dirty Jobs involving charcoal. Someone was nonchalant about all the charcoal dust in the air because “It’s natural!” and Mike replied something like, “Sharks are natural! Hurricanes are natural!”

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@@karaoconnoraliasraidra cyanide occurs naturally too

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@@dreamingnight13 gamma ray bursts are natural too but they can easily sterilize an entire planet

[@62halee]

Deer Juices Great point! Some a$$ of a pharmacy sold peppermint oil without stating it was an essential oil. I had it in my food cupboard forever until one day I added it to my tea. That single drop spread like gasoline on the surface of the drink. Toxic like hell!

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Holy crap

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I love how you explain everything in detail, so we all can feel like medical experts for five minutes.

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@@kali6651 yeah we know

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@@kali6651 lmao why are you so worked up about it?

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I really love how Dr.Bernard explains the what cause leads to what effect in a simple yet entertaining way! Loved this video!

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It's awesome it's like real-life Dr. House! I get really involved in the emotional rollercoaster of all of these vids and the layman biochemistry without even realising it, so much better than T.V! 🤷‍♂

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@@kali6651 He's still a doctor

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@@kali6651 As long as he doesn't ☝️ present to the emergency room he's fine

[@IndrasChildDeepAsleep]

My mom was an aromatherapist when I was a kid. She told me, ever since I could crawl, not to touch the oils, or to drink them- especially not the wintergreen. It probably saved my life, because I was able to open 'child safety' caps by four. Luckily I was also a smart kid, never just "took" anything irresponsibly. But my brother? I'm very glad that my mom hid the oils from him because Idk if he would've made it man

[@ShrinkRai]

Lol, glad ur brother is okay.

[@reefread1234]

emotional damage

[@joseph5166]

Uhhh… so that means she bothered to hide them from your brother, but when you were crawling around she basically just left them sitting around and used the honor system with your infant self? Lol

[@i_Ambrose]

@@joseph5166 she learned

[@Smithor]

It's pretty normal, kids have personalities the same way adults do. My sister would always try and sneak out to the kitchen when everyone was sleeping (she wanted to cook, but baby idea of cooking was covering the stove in flour and turning on all the elements), while I had one time and then never did it again once I learned kitchen things hot. Same there, some kids listen, others decide tide pods sound like a fun thing to try.

[@MrTkehrley]

When I was 2 (in 1987) I drank approximately 2 tablespoons of wintergreen oil after sneaking into a room at my grandparent's house. I stopped responding twice on the way to the hospital. After the same treatment that was featured here, I recovered. I have had alot of gastrointestinal issues throughout my life as a result, though.

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[@MelB868]

Your the same age as my brother I was 7 in 1987

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Don’t forget the hand gestures….

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Starting around 11:31 was a freaking nightmare.

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The intensity is ramped up at 8k resolution.

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@@dog61 I’m personally more of a 144 man myself

[@kinghrath]

"... and BB was able to make a ... full recovery." The slight pause nearly gave me a heart attack it was packed with so much tension.

[@Lethe69]

Same. I had such a foreboding vibe the whole video, I was truly expecting BB to not make it.

[@SWolfmoon]

I can't imagine how guilty and terrified this mom would have been seeing her kid like this!

[@ruthl.8069]

I know right!? I feel sorry for her ... You don't need to be a cruel, negligent or a horrible parent to cause harm to your child. Children are so bold and at the same time they are so delicate. It's terrifying...

[@graealex]

@@ruthl.8069 This time we can actually feel sorry, as it being essential oils didn't really contribute to the accident, as any household chemical or pill bottle would seem particularly interesting to a small child. And the child is innocent by definition. But to be honest, I feel far less sorry for people that fall victim only to their own stupidity, as are most of the accidents showcased.

[@nathanhyde2079]

Stupid is as stupid does

[@josie3221]

i would feel guilty, but to be fair, this could occur with any sort of cleaner or alcohol.

[@krollpeter]

Lets take it as a stern reminder and warning.

[@drbettyschueler3235]

I had my four toddlers boys get into the alcohol I used for cleaning my pierced earrings. This was before the days of childproof caps, and we all got to spend a fun evening in the emergency ward. I never knew if they actually drank any of it but I found them, with the cap off the bottle, so I had to assume the worst. Fortunately, they all survived the experience but it gave me a few grey hairs.

[@liliumjade]

Rubbing alcohol doesn't have child resistant caps to this day surprisingly but glad they're okay! The best thing to do is lock all the cabinets around the house where you keep medication and chemicals with a child resistant locks. But even then small children can manage to unlock then so they're just deterrents. Nothing can replace parental supervision.

[@harmonicaveronica]

@@liliumjade I've heard that kids learn pretty young that clear bottles with bright liquid are yummy drinks and opaque bottles are not usually not edible. It's not foolproof so it obviously shouldn't be the only safety measure, but changing out your containers for cleaning chemicals to opaque ones can reduce risk of accidents

[@therealbuttsmcgee]

glad everyone was okay!

[@dgenerated]

It's kinda shocking child-proof caps are not on All toxic household products, cleansers, pill bottles, etc.. I don't have any children, so such a thing is rarely on my mind, unless I hear a story like this!.. Reminds me of the stickers from poison control they had when I was a kid "Mr Yuk" and while a novel idea, they tended to be counterproductive and (to my knowledge) are no longer used!?.

[@theclockworkcadaver7025]

@@harmonicaveronica That introduces another danger though. You lose the label detailing the ingredients - so if the child DOES get into the bottle, you only have whatever you wrote on the bottle to go by. Unless you take the labels off the originals and put them on...but you didn't say that and most people wouldn't think to do that.

[@elishaargo3707]

I absolutely love this channel. I am a toxicology veterinary technician who works with poison control. I wish every day they had a site with a video section like this for veterinary cases

[@amywill9185]

Holy crap you scared me with this one. I thought the little dude was a goner! Thank u. As a former MICU nurse I miss this stuff.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Working as _anyone_ (doctors, nurses, admin, cleaning staff, the guy who restocks the laundry…) in a NICU sounds like one of the most stressful jobs on the planet.

[@danishamcclendon]

Spoiler

[@amywill9185]

@@liesdamnlies3372 my daughter was in a NICU for 2 months and I swear to you I couldn't do it. She was very sick with NEC but miraculously ( per the Docs that is) she pulled thru and is 34 now and a mom❤

[@firewaterbydesign]

I really did NOT expect that child to live through that incident. I am so VERY grateful that he survived!

[@antigonepc]

I feel like you made this video for me specifically. My son who is almost 3 is fascinated with my essential oils and always wants to play with them. I keep them high on a shelf, but I think I'm going to find something with a lock. Thank you!

[@liukang1240]

Sounds like something a llama would say 🤨

[@craftypixel7992]

You sound suspiciously like a llama

[@NickanM]

Lock everything in. washing powder, other cleaning supplies and chemicals! The only thing I left out was a bottle of washing liquid for the dishes. I controlled that it was ecological and I tasted it ( 🤮) so it didn't taste good. It did not.... We put a lock on an old wardrobe, not beautiful but effective. A kid with something dangerous in his / her mouth runs or crawl 4 x faster from you, trust me.

[@GemstoneDragonPrincess24]

Get one of the locking medicine cases from the Walmart pharmacy if you have access to one or order one online. They are $10 for a small one and up to $50 for a larger one and have a combination locks built in. I use one for my medications since I take blood pressure meds and supplements that could be dangerous to children (L Tyrosine and 5 HTP) and the pharmacy doesnt always put child safe lids on the medicine I get from them (plus I have arthritis which doesnt help matters)

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Monthly Chubbyemu makes me a little upset but the quality and effort of these videos make it worth it the wait!

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Quality over quantity.

[@swordsmancs]

@@Mike-st6dz amen brother

[@hollyshouse928]

When I was in college for care aide, my nursing instructor told me about a suicidal elderly resident she had. He had slashed his wrists before, so he was on watch. She said he came to her and told her he had drank a bottle of oil of Wintergreen, he didn't have dementia and was very decided he didn't want to live anymore.. He did die from drinking the oil of Wintergreen.

[@steakfilly5199]

I don’t know the story behind this, but I wish mental health at nursing homes needs to be made better. People never visit their grandparents and distant relatives sometimes, and that’s a problem. Next time you see your grandparents, tell them you love them. It could be your last chance. Elderly folk could pass at any moment and many times you can’t predict, but that doesn’t mean suicide isn’t common. It’s quite the opposite. I try to keep those in nursing homes in my thoughts.

[@Name-km6bx]

This is why we need to legalize assisted suicide. They should have been able to choose a safe, peaceful death.

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

@@Name-km6bx Or how about we address the mental illness.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 Why not both? Have the first option for the terminally ill that don’t want to go out the slow and painful way and the second option for everyone else.

[@Name-km6bx]

@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 I believe that assisted suicide programs would have mental health programs tied on. Like, you’d need a professional to verify that either a. You’re sane and able to make that kind of decision or b. You’re not sane, but can’t be made better so it’s not reasonable to remove that choice from you, else c. You cannot go through with it.

[@prosaically]

I would've thought his freezing cold fresh breath would've been detectable from a couple feet away.

[@WiIdbiII]

Those of us who are old enough can remember the MR. YUK campaign and public service announcement by the poison control center. Most toddlers were terrified of him. The idea to make a child scared of him , and then put his face stickers on Poisons was brilliant and it seemed to work.

[@renoia3067]

this is the first i've heard of Mr. yuk but that is really really cute and such a good idea

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I remember those stickers!

[@catoverlords9560]

I've never heard of it before being from Europe, but I just Googled it and *wow*! I'm a 22 year old and that sticker gives me the heebie jeebies - I'm sure it was highly effective to repel kids from drinking random stuff under the sink. Damn, that face is creepy

[@JennaGetsCreative]

I can't imagine the emotional pain that mother would have been going through between realizing what had happened and her son recovering. And even "child proof" caps aren't necessarily toddler proof. I remember when my daughter was 3 she opened a pharmacy prescription bottle containing amoxicillin capsules while I was in the washroom and when I came out I noticed a few of them in a doll's dish like play food. I frantically ran around gathering them all up and counting them. One was missing, another was wet like she'd tried it and spit it out. Thankfully the missing one was under the couch, but I didn't find it before calling poison control to make sure it wasn't a problematic dose for a kid her size just in case.

[@ThisIsKiki1]

Omg I feel for you and that poor mom-- accidents happen and they happen so fast with little kids!!! Hell, my kids could climb to top shelves and outsmart some child proof packaging; we have to keep meds and cleaning supplies in locked cupboards D: I'm so glad your little one didn't actually swallow the pills!

[@thenson1Halo]

I never had my son get into anything like this, but when he was 2 or 3 he liked to play a game where he would pretend to be falling/sliding off the end on my bed (it's not far, he could stand any time) and i'd pull him back up. Well, he did it one time and when I thought he wanted back up he decided it was time to slide back down. I didn't know anything happened as I pulled him back up he was quiet and I didn't pull hard at all, but then he raised his head and I saw the dreaded silent scream and then the scream came out. I knew what it was immediately, nursemaids elbow. And it was MY fault. I took him to the ER, on a weekend, with him nonstop crying. After about 45 minutes in the waiting room, and literally just as his name was being called, he sat up and started moving his arm like normal again and said he felt fine. The elbow had slowly slid back into place on its own. I've never been so relieved in my life.

[@kyu-risayshi7532]

Ngl I was so relieved when he said “made a FULL recovery” cause I was ready for him to say the boy made “A recovery”

[@susannahdarby6698]

Same! So relieved for the little dude and his mum

[@JackWagonOne]

There needs to be spoiler tags on KZbin comments. 😂

[@kyu-risayshi7532]

@@JackWagonOne ah sorry lmao, at least it was a positive spoiler?

[@NaNaTT549]

@@JackWagonOne People shouldn't be in the comments before watching the video unless they're looking for spoilers. That's what the comments are for, for the folks that has already watched the video to discuss the video.

[@JackWagonOne]

@@NaNaTT549 you’re not my supervisor! 🤣

[@geoffreyherrick298]

We might not have House MD anymore, but we have Chubbyemu! This would have made a great episode. Imagine going through the differential diagnosis!

[@catoverlords9560]

Ohhh, the absolute roast House would've rained on the mother 😭 damn, i miss that show

[@frantisekprusa4877]

As a medstudent with physiology as one of my main exams this year, I have found new unrealised value in your work Doctor Bernard. I am extremely grateful for this work you do and I believe it provides unparalled insight and expirience I would otherwise have nowhere to obtain.

[@elginbeloy6205]

@TheEditor107 Notice how you said "just a". I see how him being not an MD may be relevant given the comment above, but to say "just a" is funny. Yeah, Brenard, you're just a lousy professor in a medical adjacent field lmaoo

[@Razzy1312]

@@elginbeloy6205 Yeah, he's just brilliant with no fancy doctorate title. What a loser.

[@elginbeloy6205]

@@Razzy1312 are we being sarcastic together or are you being sarcastic at me thinking I wasn't being sarcastic? I'm bad at telling

[@YuChiGongG]

@TheEditor107 If he is a PhD, then it is proper for him to be addressed as "Doctor". Did you not ever attend a university?

[@stevenrodriguez763]

@TheEditor107 yea fuck that guy and his relevant information to the medical field.

[@KLGChaos]

I will never forget as a kid, probably 5 or 6, my grandmother had brought over a bottle of grape juice... which was actually filled with kerosene. I stuck my finger in and took a taste and realized it was bitter. My dad noticed and thought I had taken a swig from the bottle and started panicking, trying to make me vomit while my mom was calling poison control. Took me 30 minutes to convince them that I just tasted it and didn't actually drink it. Never made that mistake again.

[@nugboy420]

Waiting for the FULL recovery or A recovery was tense in this one. My son has HLHS and had 3 open heart surgeries, so I know what it’s like with a hospitalized child. Glad he made a FULL recovery.

[@FakeMaker]

I had an open heart surgery when I was 4 due to some kind of a defect. I'm now 22, and thinking about what my parents had to go through at the time is honestly unreal. I remember only bits and pieces from my time in the hospital, but one moment I remember as clearly and vividly as if it happened yesterday: the day when I was discharged from the hospital, it was a beautiful sunny day, me in the middle and my parents holding my hands and helping me walk (had to re-learn walking since I was bedridden for so long), and me being confused why they're smiling and crying at the same time. I wish only the best to your son and you, you're both really, really strong!

[@DarkLadyPhoenix]

Holy crap was that a wild roller coaster ride. Props to the med team on this case. It is absolutely incredible what human beings can recover from.

[@undeadprincess5726]

The human body is incredibly sophisticated yet incredibly stupid. Humans can heal broken bones and over/under nutrition and worse than hell itself and bounce back within a few months. Yet somehow, the air passage and the food passage intersect at the top of the esophagus and you can choke on your own saliva.

[@Apoostrophe]

My brother drank some bleach related solution as a toddler while my dad was standing in the same room. He turned away for only a few minutes and when he turned back my brother had already gotten to it. Luckily he was fine after! But omg watch your kids, they are mischievous little critters.

[@MrNicoJac]

Crotch goblins*

[@Andytlp]

The toddler: ma dad was fiddling with some liquid and a cup, so i took that personally. My mission is to get to it and drink it at any cost without being seen. If he sees me acting fishy hell stop me!

[@xxyy1318]

@@MrNicoJac rude

[@OmarBKar-sw1ij]

@@MrNicoJac redditor spotted, i bet you love r/athiesm

[@Mart77]

90% of parenting is preventing a kid from committing suicide

[@dumbleking5172]

My mom once tried to convince me to drink a small bottle of essential oil for my bad stomach ache. This oil is commonly use as some sort of reliever and I'm pretty sure my mom thinks it would help if I drank the entire bottle directly. Being a teenager with the tendency to read warnings, I adamantly refused and I knew my mom wouldn't give up so easily so I read the ant sized words on it until I found the words " WARNING: For external use only!" After pushing a little more, she gave up. Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention, my mom has never been to high school so that probably explains why she's so stupid. And yes, she didn't bother to read the warnings and stuff. Even if you can't read the warning labels of a medicine, you should at least ask someone to read for you right? Not just forget about it and use it the way you wish.

[@el6227]

Wtaf thats messed up

[@KAWASAKlBLAZIN]

She tried to hurt you because those things are known to be very concentrated and you pretty much NEVER use a whole bottle at one for anything even tho it is a small bottle. Next time, tell your mom to drink some first ;) or just educate her that you cannot drink it

[@LunaRuna212]

Wait how is it even possible to not go to high school? In my country (Germany) law enforcement would get involved because we have a 12 year long obligation to go to some form of school. One of my former classmates had tried to drop out early and was taken to school by authorities for a while and at some point she was sentenced to some amount of hours doing community service, because she kept not showing up to class. She was also sent to a therapist. I have no idea how she is doing now, as she was kicked out of school at some point and she went to another school then. So while it is possible here to not go to high school I guess, it would be extremely stressful, because you would keep getting punished all the time.

[@mariejuana2993]

@@LunaRuna212 Maybe they are from a third world country. I know in some third world countries where they really struggle with money, the give the best of everything to the men, so maybe she had a brother and they only had enough money to send the brother to school while his mom had to stay home and learn how to cook and clean and grow food etc

[@LunaRuna212]

@@mariejuana2993 for some reason I doubt that essential oils are that popular in third world countries, but how would I know. I have this stereotype in my mind that people who tend to shit on modern medicine and use esoteric methods instead are too spoiled by the comfort given in first world countries with functional healthcare systems

[@cssruth]

I've met so many moms who think that natural is equivalent to safe. Arsenic is natural. If you are using natural supplements or oils and you have children, do not used them on children without talking to a licensed medical professional about dose, proper usage, and possible interactions with medications.

[@aaronklinger1939]

Lol I tell people that all the time. Mercury is all natural. And it's one of the most dangerous substances known to man.

[@Outwardpd]

If mommy had just gotten some arthritis meds from a real doctor none of this ever would've happened, people shouldn't try and play doctor in their house.

[@niaram]

@@Outwardpd yeah but it’s not always that simple to actually get medicine and help from doctors. they’ll even tell you to use essential oils at times. also not to bring up how expensive it is to go to the doctors and then be referred to another and then another.

[@Outwardpd]

@@niaram The only EO I have ever heard a doctor recommend is a vapor rub and even that is pretty much never recommended these days. If you have sore muscles they won't recommend icy-hot rubs either. A doctor would never have recommended her to use essential oils for arthritis, especially not concentrated liquid wintergreen, even less so knowing she has a child in the house. I understand going to a doctor in the 'glorious' US can be a struggle. But if you have literal arthritis you can 'splurge' the 30$ to visit a doctor for a referral (if your insurance even requires it) and the 50$ for a specialist visit and then like 10-20$ for the arthritis medication. Prices based off the literal worst insurance policy I've ever had in the US. You'd actually save money in fact, wintergreen is crazy expensive, not to mention her other essential oils. Those things are not cheap for a constant application. This woman played doctor, she needed more knowledge than she possessed. In other words: She fucked around and found out. But her child is the one that paid the price of her attempt to be her own doctor, which is often how it goes.

[@TheGuindo]

@@Outwardpd I'm surprised that the "worst" insurance you've had actually covered office visits before your deductible was met. Most plans these days don't pay a single cent until you've spent enough money to meet the deductible, which is often $3,000 - $5,000 _on the low end._ So you wind up having to spend $3,000 out of pocket before your doctor visits start costing $30 each, and of course your deductible resets every year.

[@valentina1219]

During my childhood in Italy, holy water was to italians what essential oils are nowadays to the average US american. The local churches gave out these gross bottles of holy water shaped like the holy Mary, and she had a blue crown which was actually a cap you could twist off her head and pour the water anywhere you needed it. My little cousins regularly sneakily drank it, and some adult idiots even purposefully had their children drink it "for protection". Thankfully it was simply stale bottled water with a plastic aftertaste and no one ☝ presented to the emergency room. Although I'm pretty sure someone ended up getting the shits from drinking it.

[@Psychx_]

Holy shits?

[@MrsJolene-]

Hah, same here, I remember those plastic Marys! My grandparents brought it from Lourdes on multiple occasions. Though they didn't drink it, they kept it as a last resort in case of an incurable disease. And on display as well, for some reason.

[@KMStarner82]

....well holy shit Italyman

[@AlkisGD]

I'm Greek and found one such bottle at a monastery during a school trip, so I bought it for my super religious aunt and grandma. It's been well over 20 years since then, both of them are dead, and the little plastic bottle is still full of water. Anyone who thinks "holy" water doesn't go stale is free to drink it 😁

[@valentina1219]

@@AlkisGD Man... I think drinking a 20yo bottle of holy water is how the next pandemic is going to start LOL

[@judith8161]

Taking care of children really is a challenge that requires superhuman powers. Accidents do happen, even with the most attentive and careful parents. I'm glad the team at the ER was able to save the little boy, his mother could never have forgiven herself had something bad happened to her son. To all parents out there, give you kids a hug and have a wonderful day.

[@cymtk]

The sodium experiment is one thats demonstrated every single time its brought up. But-- I never get tired of how dedicated this channel is to describe and explain bio-stuff to people like me who understand very little about stuff like this. Its cool to learn about how the body works, and how different critical resources can be balanced. Long story short, I drink more water and feel a lot better lately lol

[@thegirlnextdork]

Yup, there's no getting around that iodine in the little plastic tube. :D In 100-level anatomy and physiology, we reviewed atomic structure and then dove right into diffusion for several weeks. Everything else builds on it. If you want to dive a little deeper, I think you'd enjoy the different types of diffusion. Once you know those, you can learn how every single organ works!

[@Ad_Inferno]

Definitely. I'm also now more conscious of how when you lose water under normal circumstances, you also lose electrolytes. I've applied this when I know I'm going to be drinking alcohol and I will supplement my water intake with sodium chloride and potassium chloride (you can buy the latter in the form of "salt substitutes" at the grocery store). I found that turned out to be the key to preventing hangovers. I know a lot of people drink Gatorade to prevent hangovers, but I honestly didn't fully grasp why it prevents hangovers until I started watching some of these videos.

[@Aetherian1]

TK is a young adult male presenting to the emergency room with multiple large bottles of water, unconscious. The medical team quickly discern that TK is suffering from polydipsia; "poly" meaning many, "dipsia" meaning thirst. Excessive thirst. His girlfriend tells the medical team that he had become paranoid about not drinking enough water after watching a certain medical youtuber. "I'll drink more water," he thought, "I'll feel a lot better." Shortly after doing so, he collapses with a splitting headache and his girlfriend brings him to the emergency room where we are now.

[@The_Obvious_Solution]

Ah, you mean the Soy Sauce Hot Dog experiment

[@Dlannin05]

@@Aetherian1 Lmao well done.

[@gracefulkimberella]

Oh thank God for the full recovery!!! I don't usually get so sucked into the drama but this one really caught me! The sighs after hearing you say that he made a full recovery were entirely relieving!!

[@NoBox.]

This kid is gonna grow up to be the best multilevel marketer. "I almost died for my cause"

[@NewbGamingNetworks]

I’ve always wondered why your broll and 3d models are always so accurate to what’s happening in the story. It ups the production value and increases immersion in the story but it also seems like a ton of extra work. Wonderful videos as always.

[@DeathnoteBB]

I think he’s said before he films the b-roll himself

[@sohkrazed]

IVE MISSED YOU MAN!! I hope you've been staying healthy and well during this time frame of what's happening lately. Thank you for doing these videos; I, for one, greatly appreciate you.

[@YuBeace]

"Because wherever sodium is, water will flow towards it" OH HERE WE GO!!! In all seriousness, I appreciate how honest this case is. How everything that happened wasn't some dumb Darwin-award type stuff, but there is actually very logical and normal things happening here. But that also makes it extra terrifying; toddlers are always finding a way to get into trouble...

[@MrSephirothJenova]

Dude, it is astounding how dumb kids can be sometimes. They're like little unwittingly-suicidal gremlins. I'm allowed to say this because I too was this dumb at one point. My electrical outlet says hi.

[@ldo1308]

@@MrSephirothJenova you're right. My toddler unwittingly succeeded.😔 Toddlers are insatiably curious, quick and get into everything. Can't look away for even minutes. Things happen fast

[@Saezimmerman]

Very true. My neighbors found out their toddler could reach and operate the front door lock when I rang the doorbell with his hand in mine. (They thought he had been napping.)

[@Saezimmerman]

@Silverman According to my brother, he saved my life a few times at toddler age. In my defense, car keys go in small holes… electrical outlets have small holes. Also, the snake I found was very pretty with bright colors.

[@mc_va]

@@ldo1308 sorry to ask, are you saying that your toddler passed away? Did I read that wrong?

[@jz3712]

Love this guy, if he still works as a dr his patients won the medical lottery, wish there was more doctors like this guy in America! Thanks again for another great video! As a mom of three year old twins, I am very cautious thanks to you!

[@Bit-while_going]

"Well, they're essentially just oils." he told himself and he cracked his eggs into the hot skillet full of peppermint oil.

[@mercurymysprite]

I genuinely love the interwoven education and story presentation of these videos. There's a genuine anticipation you get in learning medical facts whilst simultaneously hoping the patient gets better in the end. It's great stuff!

[@terrellenglish873]

Never stop doing these vids. Your providing the world with a at hand guide to proper diagnosis’ in everyday life situations

[@ChromaKeyMystress]

I really wish that people would keep these oils out of the reach of kids and AWAY from them. One of my friends had her son in daycare and one of the kids there was always covered in essential oils. My friends son started having breathing problems, his eyes were also full of gunk, and he wouldn't breathe through his nose. This went on until one day when she called me and told me that he now had a rash. I told her to get him in the bath and get that oil crap off of him and call the dr. She called the doctor while he was in the bath and the doctor told her once she washed him off to get him to the ER. The child was suffering allergic reaction to the oils. My friend has her son treated and he stayed for 2 days in the hospital. She got written documentation from the ER staff that the oils were the reason for what happened and she took that to the daycare and told them that the parent of the child covered in oils needed to stop before this happened to any other kids. The daycare agreed and spoke to the "oil mom". Oil mom got nasty at first with the daycare staff, so when she did they told her that she could not bring the child any more. She changed her tune after speaking to her own pediatrician and stopped putting all those oils on her own child. So, please, anyone reading this, if you use essential oils, be careful around kids. As you can see from Dr. Bernard's story and my story that they are incredibly dangerous to kids, even adults.

[@Clyman974]

True story, my local pharmacist sold my mom Essential Oils, and told her to put some on her tongue every nights before sleeping to prevent winter sickness. When I read the composition on the bottle, it had chemical hazard labels and my mom was mad at me for not trusting the pharmacist. Eventually she stopped using it, but man, what the hell was that pharmacist thinking.

[@erikburzinski8248]

Posion is in the dose and anything can be leathal with 2 much we mark it with posion when it happens to be a relatively small ammount. might have been fine at 1 ml (stadard ammount for a eye droper) and if she believed in the essential oils it would keep her from doing something worse to get rid of a cold. It might have been dangerous at higher doses but at the dose he suggested it probably did nothing.

[@Clyman974]

@@erikburzinski8248 Yeah but with daily use and directly in the mouth, when it's specifically written on the bottle that it's a hazardous product, I don't care what's the poisonous dose.

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

Any dose of an essential oil can be harmful when ingested. I would say most pharmacists know better than to recommend that, but I remembered there was one who is actual antivaxxer.

[@MrNicoJac]

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I met a pharmacist who was appalled that my meds existed. "we're giving meth to children!" What an unprofessional idiot....

[@MrNicoJac]

@@Clyman974 Well, you should still care! Go watch the video about a gallon of tap water if you think warning labels matter regardless of dosages 🙃👍🏼

[@kruszer]

If you want to know whether or not your home is child-proof, have a friend bring their toddler over and follow them like a hawk! It's amazing how many hazards they'll find that hadn't even occurred to you! I would never have been able to tell you where my open container of push pins was... But the kid found it within minutes! (Thank you, I'll take that!)

[@HECKproductions]

after the son got sick on essential oils the mom probably went on facebook to ask which essential ooils will fix that

[@MyDuckSaysFucc]

I can totally see how this sort of accident happens. My mom has arthritis, she literally can’t open safety med bottles when it’s bad. It just takes a 10 minute distraction and the kid has downed all the bottles…. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Harsh as it sounds: Suffer through the pain instead of taking risks like that.

[@Kitty-mb4hy]

@@liesdamnlies3372 that's kinda rude of you

[@nameunknown007]

@@Kitty-mb4hy Not really, I'd personally suffer through the pain or put them in a locker where I can punch the key to open. Knowing how any toddler wants to put everything in their mouth, that seems like a good plan.

[@matthewbarabas3052]

@@Kitty-mb4hy no, he is absolutely correct. i would have suffered through the pain rather than potentially compromise the safties that are there for a reason.

[@oo8962]

Can't she just slam the cap into a wall? It doesn't do much stress to her hand.

[@kimicappiello5480]

Tbh, I used to work in a lab that used teatree oil. Straight teatree oil is (I could be wrong, this was a long time ago) about 80% turpenols... nature's turpentine. I use it on my psoriasis, but it is very diluted. If you use these oils, it is important to know wtf you are doing, how it works, and how to clean it up.

[@RippingBones]

absolutely. I own lots of essential oils from doterra and my doterra girl always preached about being very very cautious regarding the dilution. It's the first thing that I've learned.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I mean…they come with MSDS’. One would hope that would be fairly cautionary for people.

[@sofiaroman1844]

Ooooh, that explains why it ate into my nail varnish! Thanks for the tid bit.

[@JuMiKu]

@@RippingBones Whoo boy. Another can of worms. Sorry, but your doterra consultant may (probably) know absolutely nothing about chemistry (only about being scammed). Sale by laypeople should be outlawed completely. They are used for and advertised as medicinal products, so they should be sold solely in apothecaries. Maybe then people would start taking these things more seriously, too.

[@gur262]

But. Turpentine is natural.

[@sitcomchristian6886]

Man, kids are so quick. My son fell off the side of couch with me literally right there to prevent exactly that. I'm pretty neurotic about my children's safety, and insist on checking all the boxes I know to check. Why not, right? But the essential oils could use more protection. I never imagined they would get into them, but they totally could. Now to find a new place for them...

[@snowps1]

Yep, I laid my infant on the seat in the car to change her diaper years ago. I was standing right there unfolding the diaper. All it took was 2 seconds of me turning my head to say something to my husband for her to roll off the seat and onto the ground. She was ok thankfully.

[@whoscatimi7590]

@@snowps1 are babies that much of a pain yo take care of?

[@gothfetus2844]

@@whoscatimi7590 i don't have kids but I've taken care of kids my whole life and they are absolutely that much of a pain to take care of lol

[@kayleemuffin]

My sister fell off the bed and broke her arm and my mom merely looked away

[@ombricshalazar3869]

kids are exceptionally quick my mother tells me a story of when i was a young toddler i somehow managed to reach onto a tall countertop and knocked her lunch onto the floor, in the process somehow completely dodging what should have by all means been a bowl to the head

[@beez1717]

I love how you translate the medical term. It makes it easier to understand the words being used and it helps understand what the issue is that's being talked about. It also assumes we are smart and can understand medical terms and they aren't scary words.

[@The_Madam_Mayhem]

If he drank all those oils, he would smell SO STRONGLY of it. You would know in a second, I'm surprised they didn't catch it.

[@pepsifan1364]

Exactly.

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

To be fair, I have no idea what any of this smells like.

[@KAWASAKlBLAZIN]

@@AbstractTraitorHero the oils are extremely concentrated so just imagine it being very strong and it lingers

[@SHARKAST1C]

If she's using them regularly, then she's used to the smell. If she saw a mess around the bottle, she may have assumed that's why it smelled strongly. The brain can't always add obvious things up when you're panicked. If he had smelled that strongly, the doctors would probably have noticed without having to run a bunch of tests, but maybe they both smelled like it or the smell wasn't that strong, idk.

[@MissLD01]

He did vomit though so maybe that covered any smell that might have been on him or his breath.

[@tulpa1940]

After becoming a parent I have learned sooooo much about what can kill children. I can't believe the amount of one pill killers. Freaking scary.

[@brandonedwards1181]

Its good that you are learning these things though because I'm sure many aren't

[@vedantbhard]

I've heard children are like suicide machines lol

[@aazhie]

My sister drank Barbie perfume right in front of me and our mom. She was old enough to explain, "Hot, HOT!" Mom called poison control and she was fine, but it makes a pretty hilarious story in hindsight.

[@unmitigatedgall8732]

Really interesting and informative as per usual. Thanks Doc! 👍 Note to those with cats, re: essential oils: Apparently, even when these are added to water in a diffuser, they pose a hazard to cats. The mist from the diffuser lands on the cat, who then eventually grooms himself by licking his fur. This is enough to prove toxic, since the cat's body can't process the oil into a harmless form. The article I read went on to say that this would not be harmful to dogs or people, since our systems can handle it. Needless to say, however, no species should drink these oils!

[@kefpull6676]

grapes, chocolate too...

[@Cillana]

Essential oils in water diffusers are bad for pet rabbits and birds too. Not only do rabbits groom themselves like cats, they are more prone to illness due to inhaling chemicals. Pet birds are even more sensitive to inhaled things than rabbits.

[@charlottebuddhistvihara1354]

Several years ago my friend's previously healthy cat kept getting mysteriously ill. The vet found nothing wrong, and kitty'd improve awhile then worsen. When I realized that my friend was heavily using essential oils by constantly misting her room, I told her my concern for her cat. She shrugged it off. Kitty soon died for no known reason, and my friend never made the connection. She then gave to me a misting set w/ a supply of several essential oils - which remained unopened as I wasn't going to poison my own cats. It's still in a closet somewhere.

[@scuttledspatula8837]

@@charlottebuddhistvihara1354 Bit of a wtf moment in that your friend gave you a misting set.

[@Gamesaucer]

This reminds me of the alcohol poisoning bug in the game Dwarf Fortress. At some point, there was an update that would let cats groom themselves, and suddenly everyone's cats started dying from being poisoned. In that game, as creatures walk around they can track fluids behind them or get covered in them. So as cats get covered in very small amounts of alcohol from interacting with spilled beer, they would ingest it whenever they next groom themselves. Normally, all would have been fine at this point. Who cares if cats get a bit tipsy occasionally, right? Well, it was more than "a bit". There was a mistake in the code keeping track of the amount cats ingest during grooming. Each time a cat covered in alcohol cleaned itself, it would ingest a full pint of beer. And even this would have been fine if it weren't for the fact that the game also takes into account body mass when simulating intoxication. Since cats are so small, a full pint of beer is highly toxic to them. That game always amazes me with how in-depth its simulation is. This is the kind of thing I'd never expect to learn from a game before it came up in real life.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Child: **drinks essential oils** Facebook anti-vax moms: "that's my boy 😥"

[@hhiippiittyy]

Correction: That *was* my boy.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

@@hhiippiittyy boyemia Boy, reffering to boy. Emia, reffering to presence in the blood. Presenting to the emergency room, 27 year old Facebook mom, Karen had a serious case of boyemia after attempting to merge her flesh with her son and assimilate his nutritients.

[@SRWJ]

My mother is an aromatherapist. She often told me how dangerous it was as a child, I never, ever remember seeing them. She always kept them hidden. She's told me many horror stories about people who don't respect/treat oils as dangerous or fully understand the properties/what's poisonous/what burns skin ect. Poor lil guy, I really wish essential oils either came with more education or are made harder to obtain by average folk who don't know what they're doing... For instance, if mum wasn't an aromatherapist she wouldn't of known that my reaction to lavender was a rare allergic reaction (I go extremely hyper, not calm). And potentially, she would of kept giving me something I am allergic to because everyone thinks lavender js great for calming and no one knows that you can be allergic... Anyway! Rant over.

[@GeeklingNo1]

I feel like the way the doctors disregard essential oils is really dangerous actually. Essential oils have been used for centuries as medicines and shouldn’t be disregarded. Are they as good as synthetic medication? No. Will they replace modern medicine? No. However, I cannot disregard the fact that they are medicinal in nature and should be treated like any over the counter pill. I appreciate that he didn’t just say she used essential oils and that’s bad. He said that essentially what she had was a bottle of aspirin and worked for what she needed but was not safe to ingest. It has the same danger as if a child got a hold of a whole bottle of aspirin and you can’t just disregard the fact that it is an ingredient in medicines. Edit: oils aren’t replacements for modern medicine. But pretending like they do nothing leads to a bunch of ppl without any medical background using medicinal herbs with no instructions or dose regulations. Medicinal herbs and oils have been effectively used for centuries. We use those herbs to make modern medicines; Morphine originally came from poppies, belladonna is used to dilate our eyes, and the essential oil blend in this video is used as a pain reliever/aspirin.

[@jeremygilbert7989]

@@GeeklingNo1 There's not a single empirically tested study that suggests essential oils are capable of anything more than a placebo effect. Essential oils are a scam, plain and simple.

[@primetimehome]

@@GeeklingNo1 some of them have medicinal effects like how tea tree oil is anti bacterial but for modern life and for modern people especially some mothers they see these oils as replacements for the treatments and medicines we have today which they are not, they aren’t nearly as effective and these mothers will often use these oils on their children as substitutes while not getting them actual medical help when they need it, you often see a correlation between those who use essential oils obsessively and those who are anti-vax

[@Elmindrida]

Do you happen to know if the reason you get energetic from lavender is because it increases the histamine in your body/brain? Given that anti-histamines make you tired and are in anti-allergy medications, and some medications given to decrease sleepiness do this by increasing histamine activity in the brain, I'm curious if that might be the cause.

[@estefanylopez453]

@@jeremygilbert7989 did u not watch this video, he says topically this essential oil is a safe and effective remedy for arthritis.

[@davidp2888]

The joy I feel when I see a notification that you've posted is strong. Also, -emia means presence in blood.

[@Pdnorell]

This is the most informative and fascinating channel on KZbin in my opinion. The content is just amazing but the delivery is so good. I'm sure at least a few people have become toxicologists, or doctors, because of this dude's work. Keep on.

[@88ひびき]

the comment i saw above yours happened to detail someone going back into becoming a toxicologist because of chubbyemu, lol

[@paulineferrill4348]

Going into this video I wondered if it would be Oil of Wintergreen. Unfortunately, a lot of moms get told by their mom friends/local MLM huns/Facebook that essential oils are safe for kids because they’re “natural.” We really need a solid, science-based resource for using EOs safely (cuz let’s be real…I like my lavender oil) that explains chemistry like the salicylate thing here, but in layman-friendly language.

[@LauraJSB]

Tisserand Institute has some good resources.

[@crowdemon_archives]

Best way to combat that is to be educated tbh. And also tell them that toxins from colourful frogs are "natural" yet they can kill you quickly lol

[@adnaP_esreveR]

Yeah some essential oils are phototoxic (they can burn you if you apply the oil on your skin and expose that area to sunlight) and people just rub essential oils on their skin indiscriminately.

[@trparky]

Sure, these oils are natural; so is cyanide. But you don't consume cyanide. What people don't get is that when people think about the word "essential" in "essential oils", it doesn't mean that you need it or that it's essential for you. They're essential for whatever plant that said oil came from. And yeah, it will probably kill you.

[@adnaP_esreveR]

@@trparky Also it's the distilled essence of the plant it's coming from. Essential oil. The word "pure" usually has good connotations but it's not always a good thing to be pure. Sometimes purification just makes things capable of killing you stronger because you literally increase their concentration.

[@macledou]

The child laughing at the end got me all emotional, glad BB survived

[@CaptianMoePedro]

Can we take a moment to acknowledge how spectacular modern medicine is? That's not just the techniques but the individuals too. The combination of both allow these seemingly hopeless situations to somehow turn out to only close calls. Granted it's not perfect but it's crazy that medical professionals are capable of making all of these observations based on limited information in a stressful situations. It really is magic in some ways. Hats off to anyone working/studying healthcare.

[@GrimmDisturbed]

the way you explain things in these videos is actually incredible, kudos to you for putting everything into layman's terms for us !

[@rosettaquartz5072]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ONE!!!! A ton of essential oil pyramid scheme sellers like to say all oils are edible because they're ~natural~ and end up hurting many without thought

[@MrNicoJac]

LOL Next time, tell them to eat a bull's shit. It's GREAT for your libido! 😎 (if you survive the Cholera🙊)

[@abigailhalpern2222]

PSA: my youngest learned how to open child safety caps at age three. Never rely on only one method of prevention!

[@orctrihar]

I finded how to open the gaz at three Thankfully, the bottle was pratically empty

[@drnapalm7605]

Medic here, this highlights how dangerous OTC can be for one, and two how important it is to give 911 or the medics a good picture of what a patient may have injected or been in contact with. There is a similar discussion on the mechanisms of aspirin/salicylic acid within the context of acid/base balance and ems. Initial symptoms with most things dont always give a good indicator for what it may be, but getting even the smallest bit of information in a slew of stressed out nonsense from people can be the difference. Cases like these are why we, and every other station carries sodium bicarbonate. Maybe hindsight is 20/20 but I am unsure why the medics did not suspect this and treat accordingly, especially with having things like an ekg and capnography. However, there are other things to consider like, stations having access or the licenses for such equipment or knowledge, which in my experience is more likely to be the case

[@jm_r2128]

Do you chose medic in Battlefield

[@kanjakan]

@@jm_r2128 Asking the real questions

[@videowifie]

I'm surprised the mum didn't know instantly, like you'd think the kid would stink of all the oils he'd vomited up. guess not.

[@kasualbeauty309]

In the United States medics don’t treat. They just deliver to a dr. There are no drs In The ambulance

[@wasd3108]

how about u be Sherlock Holmes and save more lives?! jk

[@LauraDKM]

Hi! I'm currently a grad student having metabolic biochem and youtube recommended me this. Thanks for cookies I guess haha. Loved this video a lot! Your way of explaining things and the video itself, the editing and images are all on point. Thank you for doing this work!

[@ryokokofficial]

Ah yes, another episode of "how did i make it out of my own childhood alive when everything in my house was dangerous?"

[@ryokokofficial]

@@CoryPchajek Well thats why i said what i said, my parents were completely absent. I spent a few years in Florida swimming in swamps. The fact that household chemicals, or alligators, or that brain eating Aomeba didnt get me with the way things were, is incredible the more I learn on this channel.

[@MsLucyJayne]

You’d think the mom would have smelled the wintergreen in the vomit that her son was throwing up, but so glad they figured it out & he made a full recovery!

[@thomfiel]

One can only hope that someone out there, while watching this, will think about trying to secure pills, oils, weapons, or other dangerous items so that small children don't get their hands on them. There have been too many tragedies where an adult failed to keep these things away from toddlers.

[@exantiuse497]

I don't like these oils at all. They smell and taste good which makes them tempting to children, and all it takes is one innocent mistake from the parent, as was the case here, for the child to drink it. Medicines usually taste bad, precisely because that makes children (and mentally handicapped people, pets etc) less likely to swallow them if they put them in their mouth. Toxic substances and good taste is a bad combination

[@Veldrusara]

That kid's survival with no permanent damage is nothing short of a miracle. I know it can always be worse but I'm especially glad cinnamon oil wasn't on the table. Lesson learned the hard way: the tiniest little fleck of cinnamon oil from when I had trouble getting the bottle open almost resulted in me losing an eye and the splash of it that landed on my GLASS table melted through the glass. Not even kidding. Careful with that stuff.

[@aleka..]

whoa, that sounds dangerous... glad you're fine.

[@MrNicoJac]

Cinnamon oil melts through glass??? Guess I finally know what Aliens have as blood 😅

[@RippingBones]

ok, I'll never buy cinnamon oil, it's official now😂 (I'm essential oil addicted)

[@WizKhalia13]

@@aleka.. how did the oil not melt through it’s container but proceed to melt through your glass table? Genuinely curious. I know cinnamon oil and PVC plastic don’t mix, but glass? 🧐

[@catc8927]

@@WizKhalia13 Maybe the table was Lucite, not glass?

[@arkinseth144]

Childsafty caps don't always work, when I was 4 I climed up the kitchen counter and chugged down a whole bottle of cough syrup, while mum answered the door to the mailman. I don't really remember much past that point, but I was rushed to the hospital and was able to make a full recovery. Also my mum put the meds always out of reach on the top shelf and kept them locked. but neither safty measures nor height are a challenge for a 4 year old convinced that she needs that cough syrup.

[@radiantabsoluteradiance3385]

Really it’s the mom’s negligence that caused that it almost always is with these types of scenarios

[@donamirtz]

I feel so bad for them. I have fibromyalgia and when the Dr. described that she couldnt open her oils made me relate so much. I'm glad the boy had a full recovery

[@maddijasnyy]

I have it too, but I would NEVER change the caps if I had a child.

[@donamirtz]

@@maddijasnyy yes! I use plenty of random stuff around my home to have better grip/leverage lol. Hope you are doing well, honey!

[@XSemperIdem5]

Chronic joint pain here and I need the pharmacy to put the easy to open caps on all bottles. I don't have children or even pets so it's safe. But I know the struggle, although not the same since I have a different problem than you.

[@wawaweewa8749]

Rheumatoid arthritis here! I get just like that when I get a flare up. I often end up staring at the jars like they insulted my mother and asking my siblings with usable hands to open them it for me.

[@donamirtz]

@@wawaweewa8749 damn....... relatable, im so sorry tho haha

[@pneuma-gr2vw]

So I work at a hospital as a NA, and the other week I was in the Cafe. I saw sushi and I thought, man that looks good. Right before I grabbed it I thought of the gas station sushi episode. I decided to get a sandwich instead

[@AaronSchwarz42]

Bernard you are a hero brother! Blessings & warm regards. Thank you for explaining the physiology of medicine of the acid base system & respiration regulatory mechanisms // you're excellent at explaining these stories and the science of medicine in an easily intelligible way so that more people can understand more :) Thus you are an excellent doctor & excellent teacher! Cheers brother ~

[@GrammarSplaining]

Murphy's Law is my 11th commandment. The ONE time you make an exception to your safety routine -- whether it's bicycle helmets, file backups, or CHILDPROOF CAPS -- is the one time you needed it.

[@hamidbabaali10]

That feeling when he says “a full recovery” 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@Ethan_Simon]

i was afraid I wouldn't hear it! what a relief

[@aliyahl112]

Thank you! Was looking for a comment like this, I didn't wanna start the vid yet and hear all the details if the child ended up passing or such

[@A7xFo]

Why? This already happened. What he says in the video is irrelevant. Whether or not he says "full recovery" doesn't change the outcome of what already happened.

[@alexswords8547]

@@A7xFo I can’t tell if this is supposed to be facetious

[@Ethan_Simon]

@@A7xFo it's not so much about the negativity that happens in the world so much as it's the negativity we hear. I'd rather not hear more bad crap than I have to.

[@Darrylizer1]

I'm glad BB made a full recovery and not just A recovery.

[@callunas]

You are a fantastic teacher. I never feel overwhelmed or "talked down to" in your videos. What a suspenseful one - I'm so relieved to hear the full recovery line.

[@pubjubz]

Babe, wake up, we need to find out what happened to his brain.

[@Qaptyl]

**skips to the end**

[@ryanheitzmann8093]

Bicarb is truly one of the best tools medical providers have. So many problems in the body are acid-base related, the fact that we can change the way cells act at a cellular level is amazing.

[@HallmarkJD]

Since medical science saved her son, I hope she was more willing to see a doctor about her arthritis.

[@Crowski]

I thought the same thing. There's a simple blood test to check for arthritis...

[@eypandabear7483]

I agree she should see a doctor just to be on the safe side. But nowhere is it mentioned that she did not believe in medical science. As the video explained, the essential oil she used isn't some kind of voodoo, it's an effective NSAID.

[@somewhatsomething4882]

@@Crowski umm yeah there are like 140 different types of arthritis. There are very few of these that are specifically diagnosed only or definitively by a blood test. I'll never understand how people assume doctors have simple answers to everything.

[@AJ213Probably]

@@somewhatsomething4882 Did anyone say Doctors know everything? What is wrong with seeking help from a professional?

[@thorr18BEM]

Yeah, if it's so bad you can't open child-safe caps, that's a disability more than worthy of a doctor's examination.

[@lorenamcgovern]

My kid drank tea tree oil once. Scared the hell out of us when she passed out. She turned out to be okay though

[@louisejackson8770]

NEVER EVER leave Essential oils in reach of children. You certainly don't mix your oils within reach and sight of children. Either way something doesn't ring true as unless she's lost her sense of smell she would have/should have noticed

[@MrNicoJac]

Actually, now with covid, losing your sense of smell isn't THAT hard to imagine 🙃🙊

[@indica13]

If she was using it before she went to answer the phone call she probably wouldn’t didn’t notice the smell was from him and not her

[@shannonandkyle]

Note from a mom of 3, never trust child safety caps (yes I know this mom took them off), a toddler will ALWAYS find a way & I have had to call poison control a few times because my toddlers got past the child safety caps. 2 times they not only had child safety lids, they were up on a very high shelf.. My 2 youngest could get through & into anything, ANYTHING. With my middle child I had to stack child safety gates to the ceiling because he could climb any gate. With toddlers where there is a will, there truly is a way.

[@Lwoods1717]

On a different note, if your kids are that curious and persistent, it will serve them very well as adults. Congratulations!

[@user-svqmbiv]

@@Lwoods1717 unless they use that curiosity to eat chemicals

[@sirzn]

Put the bottles in a safe. Easy.

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

If so then cats are tuly fluffy toddlers. They're very curious animals but also stubborn. It took me a lot of time (and kitty tantrums) to teach my cat to not eat the plants that could poison him

[@vvrr6757]

Exactly!! I had to call posion control. They straight up told me there was a difference between child proof and child resistant!!!