Mumsnet Talk

I do hope this was a joke (albeit not v funny).
I don't know how old your ds is or why the fuck you'd want to put garlic up his bottom but this is not medically recommended and inserting anything like that into a child's anus/ rectum can cause serious damage.
Absolutely fucking
What you and your dp do with your own arses is of course your business (and now ours of course).

Absolutely unbelievable! Rather.

I remember a thread years ago on Mumsnet about this. Someone had done it, and the garlic clove had come out at work the next day with the most unbelievable stench.

I urge you to read this classic thread and never even think of garlic suppositories again, OP...

why would you shove garlic up your arse?
what does it do? other than presumably make your farts more interesting.

Too many questions...I have too many questions..about...to..explode...

HollaAtMeBaby You linked to exactly the thread I was thinking of when I opened this one.

What does it do

I'm out of fresh, would Eazy Garlic work?

This thread smells fishy. Not garlicky.

It's weird and unpleasant at best. And YABU.

YABU that poor child

SDTGisAChristmassyWolefGenius The theory would be that the bacteria there is the wrong bacteria, so by killing it it gives a chance of the right strains to colonise.

I don't think it makes any sense to do it to yourself though, let alone a child who can't consent... but that is I believe the hypothesis. Transplants of bacteria from one person to another are successful for some things though, so the general idea of bacteria being "wrong" is perhaps meaningful.

'Colonise' - very good FredFredGeorge

Just as to why you would want to do this....

Well DH swears it has got rid of his cough which da and I also have so thought I would give it a whirl - why not?! Just another alternative therapy which may or may not work as far as I am concerned! DS (6) is sound asleep having made his views v clear

Um... no. You cannot push things up a child's bottom, and putting garlic in your bottom won't get rid of a cough

just no

rub vicks on his feet, calpol if he needs it, open window for fresh in the bedroom

it's not alternative therapy, it's introducing a foreign object into your child's bottom which is very dubious practice indeed

I urge you to read the link HollaAtMeBaby posted. I vividly remember that thread and <sick face

Why on earth would anything shoved up your arse cure your cold??
Because you end up too scared to cough or summat?!

Your DH is a weirdo .

Alternative therapies + AIBU? Really?

Raw garlic when used topically on skin is a irritant it can cause blisters and third degree burns,

This is more likely to happen to children and elderly people.

Fred, colds are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Respiratory viruses.

Our bowels are full of bacteria who really like to be left alone.

Suppositories work well, do not hurt, are not abusive to use - even with children (you repressed Brits, you) and can be a godsend when confronted with a vomiting, febrile child. Or a fitting person. Or somebody who does not tolerate some drugs well by mouth (me - Voltarol. After my first ERCP after MC, I asked for a Voltarol suppository to go where the sun don't shine before I woke up with the subsequent ones).

Garlic is for cooking <gavel>.

We went on holiday with some friends, she's Danish & they live in Denmark.

She was constantly sticking things up her kids' backsides, or so it seemed to us.

But garlic? A 6 year old? No. It's just not part of our culture here, so it seems highly inappropriate.

<build some sort of protection advise in case someone tries to sneak in my room and put garlic in my bum>

Thanks folks!

Your DH is bonkers.....there is no need to say anymore!

Except perhaps, that your DS clearly has more common sense