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[kitbabingley]

IS NOT STERILE!!

^^ This has been a public service announcement on behalf of all those, like myself, who are fed up with seeing/hearing myths like this presented as facts (often in a very smug manner) all over the place. I have no idea how this particular one came to be, but it is incredibly pervasive.

What are your "fgs NO" facts that you NEED to clear up?

Trust me, it's not sterile. Not a scientist so can't give you a scientific explanation, but it's definitely true...

@OP, I'm not really bothered whether urine is sterile or not, but your answer above gives no confidence at all. If you don't understand it yourself, how can you hope to convince others?

Oh flu that reminds me you cannot get fly from the flu vaccine despite countless people swearing they were really ill when they had it
You either already had the flu, caught a cold afterwards or a slim chance of catching one of the strains of flu not used in that years vaccine but the vaccine itself did not give it to you

Sorry cross post with haggis

@dylsmimi Great minds

cigars my DD has chronic ocnstiparion and is on daily movicol. Our paediatrician said to avoid bananas and only one a day at most. Is she wrong?

Flu is not automatically more severe than a cold.

You don't have to be half dead to be infected with influenza.

Armpit hair isn't disgusting.

Vaginas aren't supposed to smell like air freshener.

'Sterile' means that something is free from all infective agents. Urine isn't, therefore urine isn't sterile.

You are massively less likely to get an infection from urine than any other bodily product (blood, sweat, snot, etc.), and it has very very little infective material in it, but it isn't sterile.

farfaraway My DD(2) had constipation when she was younger and we were given the same advice. Still have to avoid bananas now.

Ex nurse here who also must have been absent the day 'chills' were taught.

Ex-mil no sitting on cold surfaces is NOT what gave me piles it was birthing your beloved dgd.

Ex-fil no being vegetarian is NOT why I VERY occasionally get a cold/bug/stomach upset, it's just the normal infections going around that EVERYONE gets (yes even you though you deny you have a cold even when going through a box of tissues a day!)

"On that note, I also don't know what "it repeats on me" means in the context of eating certain foods." Most people mean reflux or heartburn when they say this.

medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

Rigors.

Today 19:39 RobinHumphries
If you have toothache put an aspirin on the gum next to the tooth cos we all stick aspirin on our foreheads when we have a headache don't we?

Well, unless you have a mucous membrane on your forehead, it's not really comparable. There are several drugs that you tuck between your cheek and gums or under your tongue to absorb. I'm not sure taking aspirin that way would make it more effective than just swallowing it, but it's not the same as pressing it against your forehead.

I have an ex who thought women can catch STDs from toilet seats. A friend and I were laughing about it, she mentioned it to her DH and it turns out he thought the same thing.

Also you can't pass a cold back and forth between family members. You can't catch the same cold twice.

What goes around comes around.

Does. It. Fuck.

I thought only older members of the Royal Family had chills.

If you sit on a cold wall or floor you'll get piles.

kit I have studied health sciences to degree level, and clearly remember the lecturers " urine is sterile " patter, this is a revelation!
It makes sense too, the body not being a sterile environment. (/except the tube down the middle, which is obvs not).I worked for a while at National Neurological Hospital, and no body could ever tell me where meningitis arose from, consultants would mutter about hair line skull fractures and bacteria getting in, but I could tell they didn't really know.
Really interesting article, thanks for the heads up.

You can't call it a blackboard these days!

i used to sit down outdoors for years when i wa a teen /twenties never had piles

Getting cold reduces your immunity so if you are exposes to a cold virus which is everywhere you might likely to get it than if you not been cold. Thats what i always believed!

Redress...a cold is a virus which mutate over time so it could change within a family members so you right you wouldnt get the same cold again unless it mutated.

london, I know colds can mutate but I don't think they mutate so quickly that you can get a cold, pass it to your child, then have them pass it back to you, in the space of a week - I think it's more of a gradual shift. I could be wrong though.

Ooh, ooh, I know the origin of the 'if pregnant, don't lift arms above head or the cord will go round baby's neck' thing. Learnt it from 'Call the Midwife'...

When pregnant, women are more prone than usual to dizzyness and fainting. Lifting arms above head and looking up e.g. to peg out washing, can cause dizzyness and fainting.

But... apparently, if told not to do something for their own benefit, many women will say 'don't worry about me, I'll be fine, who else is going to peg out this washing anyway'. So, the myth of the cord around neck was created, as the same women could be persuaded to act 'sensibly' if it was for the good of their baby.

I was told that sugar, more specifically is necessary for growing children to make their bones grow strong.

The teller was adamant it was scientific.

The teller was also the very lovely post office man.

I told him that I was a doctor (I am) and that sugar was categorically not 'essential' for strong bone growth.

To his credit he listened to me and said he appreciated the updated advice!

Breastfeeding will not make your boobs saggy. Weight gain/loss during or after pregnancy can do that, but not breastfeeding.

*more specifically chocolate