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LLWD: Bad Medical Myths (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-24 06:28:30
Edited:
2025-10-24 19:11:58
Imported:
2025-10

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Episode Summary

When a friend has been bit, stung, burnt, or otherwise injured by something, do you often wonder, "Should I suck on it, piss on it, smear butter on it, or stab the person?" Spoiler alert: no. This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam and James answer all these questions and more about medical myths that sound more like kinks, from what not to do to animal bites and what not to use as a tourniquet. Bite and tie people up with seatbelts elsewhere, and with consent.

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/did-a-barista-put-a-tampon-in-a-cops-frappuccino-an-investigation/

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James can be found on Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout. Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers' Bluesky.

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Postal kitty

I had a co worker tell me that not wearing sunglasses ment they wouldn't get sunburn without sunscreens because they would produce more melons or somthing...they had sunburn the next day for some reason.

Banjo

Some of these literally made my jaw drop. So many bad ideas! (Definitely learned a lot about good practices, though, even if I was already aware of a lot of bad ones)

xybergay

I was taught something different about snake bite treatments in Australia so I looked this up and all the medical sources I could find* claim that for bites from Australian snakes (which have venoms composed of high molecular weight proteins transported by the lymphatic system and not through blood), the advice is to practice something called the Pressure Bandaging & Immobilisation technique (aka Pressure Immobilisation Technique) which uses wrap bandages (ideally elastic but any cloth will do) to apply pressure first to the wound (optional) and then to the entire surface of the limb over clothes whilst keeping it fully immobile. They also suggest photographing the snake for ID purposes if safe to do so. The success rate of this technique isn't high and it's apparently often done incorrectly, but at the very least you should not move the limb if at all possible and leave all clothes where they are (but also as said in the podcast, do not attempt to use an arterial tourniquet, cut or suck on the wound). The sources also claim that this advice doesn't apply internationally which is probably why the advice the podcast hosts gave was different. *the aforementioned sources: - "A clinician’s guide to Australian venomous bites and stings: incorporating the updated CSL antivenom handbook / Professor Julian White" - ANZCOR dot org "Guideline 9.4.1 – First Aid Management of Australian Snake Bite" and "Guideline 9.4.8 - Envenomation - Pressure Immobilisation Technique"