Good Intentions, Bad Information
You know how people with good intentions send chain mails with bad information and then ask their friends to propagate it thinking that they are dispensing good medical or health information? Well, I really wish that they would stop doing that. Here is a recent one I received:
"> >>Drinking cold water after meal = Cancer !> >>> >>For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable> >>to you.> >> It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal.> >> However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you> >>have just> >> consumed.> >> It will slow down the digestion.> >>> >> Once this "sludge" reacted with the acid, it will break down> >>and be> >> absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food.> >> It will line the intestine.> >>> >> Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.> >> It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.> >>> >>
_________________________________> >>> >>A Serious note about Heart Attacks> >> HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE": (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)> >>> >> Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to> >>be the> >> left arm hurting.> >> Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.> >>> >>You may never have the first chest pain duringthe course of a heart> >>attack.> >>> >> Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.> >>> >>60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not> >>wake up.> >>> >> Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep.> >> Let's be careful and be aware.> >> The more we know, the better chance we could survive...> >>> >> A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it> >>to 10> >> people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.> >> Read this..... It could save your life!!> >>> >> Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home .> >>> >> Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that> >>starts to> >> radiate out> >> into your arm and up into your jaw.> >> You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your> >>home.> >> Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that> >>far.> >> You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course> >>did not> >> tell you> >> how to perform it on yourself.> >>> >> "HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE":> >>> >>Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack,> >>without help,> >> the person whose heart is beating> >> improperly and who begins to feel faint,> >> has only about 10 seconds left before losing> >>consciousness.> >>However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly> >>and very> >> vigorously.> >> A deep breath should be taken before each cough,> >> deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the> >>chest.> >> A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two> >>seconds> >>without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be> >>beating> >> normally again.> >> Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements> >>squeeze> >> the heart and keep the blood circulating The squeezing pressure> >>on the> >> heart> >> also helps it regain normal rhythm.> >> In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell> >>as many> >> other people as possible about this.> >> It could save their lives!! "> >>> >> **PLEASE BE A "TRUE" FRIEND> >> AND SEND THIS ARTICLE> >> TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS> >> YOU CARE ABOUT.> >>
I asked His Royal Omniscient Highness about it. From His vast reservoirs of Knowledge, he proclaimed the following:
"the cold water thing is absolutely rubbish!
Heart attack chest pain do go into the left arm, and into your jaw andis sometimes mistaken for acid reflux or heart burn.The coughing and deep breathing thing is kinda true but its wrong in this context. Deep breathing and breath holding is used to slow down some types ofpalpitations (very fast heart beats) and coughing regularly is used tospeed up extremely slow heart rates, but in this context, doing bothwill result in nothing happening!"
Who is this Highness? Doubt His Holiness? Well, His Munificient Royalness is not merely some third rate GP dispensing cough medicine, He is more than that. He knows everything. Actually, he's a specialist.
Oh well, chain letters. It should be obvious enough but in reality, some people don't know better.
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Yeah, a lot of stuff from the internet is bullshit.
And u know those 'warnings' they put up about so and so from where ever? I think some of them may be done by people who dislike the person. A method of defamation
Yes, you are definitely right. We see so much slander in the form of chain mails, blogs and more. It's the online equivalent of gossip and bitching. Heheh.
Anyway, I asked my old friend who is actually a doctor at a hospital in the UK. He's been there for ten years. He is, of course, easily able to distinguish between rubbish and the real thing. He has seen many emergencies and so forth.
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