For a second I thought that baby was boiling, but then I remembered Fahrenheit exists 😂
If the baby lives, the onion worked. If the baby died, didn’t use enough onion.
Conversely, if you burn your onion while cooking, you can put a few baby slices in the pot to make it go away.
Or… Ya know, you’re full of shit or your thermometer also doesn’t work.
If you use this trick repeatedly, temperature may drop way further!
I think its kind of weird everyone just assumes this was posted by a woman, unless I’m missing something. Men are parents too, and they can also be dumb like this.
Wtf this comment just made me realise I always assume these “natural remedy” posts are done by a female oop
This can’t be the way I find out I’m sexist
It’s not sexism. Your brain naturally attributes probability from things it has seen in the past. The natural remedy of OPs sort is dominated by female sex so your brain just makes natural connection because it wants to be efficient in it’s world building process.
Sexism is when you don’t self reflect on initial thoughts that you do not control and pursue these notions further in thoughts you control or simply refuse this dichotomy all together if you’re a wilful idiot powere by trauma.
Mom groups are definitely a thing, and even where things don’t have to be for moms specifically the mentality still exists. My daughter was a “nano-premie” and was on oxygen for a while. I’m on a group for parents that have to deal with that, and every week or two there will be a post starting with “any moms who _______”
I like to answer those posts and start by asking if dads can also answer (but also give a real answer too!)
It is kind of hard when you try to be an involved dad but then get ignored in different ways
My child instantly feels better when I supply vitamin TV.
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baby onions in socks
For sale: Onion socks, never worn.
What a tearjerker!
She’s an idiot. When I have a fever I tie an onion to my belt, which is still the style.
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say.
Really? I always rub one over my penis, you know, the classy way
Waaaay up your butt
Ginger works better.
It’s knobbly for our pleasure
Makes me act like a horse ten years younger.
Remember, this person is eligible to vote.
[shudders]
She might not be 18.
But even a toddler playing the doctor knows that putting onions in a socks isn’t a cure
Might not be. Even still, how much intelligence do you think they’ll gain by the time they are?
Eligible doesn’t mean registered. A lot of these people are not big fans of things like government registries
A lot of these people do whatever their husbands tell them. Zero sense of self. They were raised to be obedient to their man and nothing more.
I feel bad for the kids. They don’t deserve to die at the hands of incompetent parents.
One of the downsides of disrupting natural selection is that now we are keeping some people alive that probably should be taken by natural causes before they were able to replicate.
The annoyingly stupid part is that for most fevers that don’t approach the “You need to go to the ER right now” point it’s actually best to simply let it run it’s course and not try to “break” it with drugs since a fever is your body’s own defense mechanism.
But these antivaxxers will do this stupid shit, then go “see it works” and then try to apply it to everything else
102.6 in an infant was er territory I thought
Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.
For infants it is usually recommended to seek treatment from your pediatrician for a temp over 100.4°F. (See link)
Gotta love that metric dust.
100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.
Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F
Above 100c I’m not wasting money on a doctor.
Then I sure as hell hope you’ve never been responsible for caring for an infant.
In Celsius, 40º+ deserves a hospital visit (35-36º is the usual body temp). If you somehow manage to get it to 100º, please take pictures, I’m pretty sure the body would glow
I’m pretty sure the body would glow
Nah, boiling water doesn’t glow. But it would probably be pretty foamy, from all of the proteins in the boiling blood.
100 degrees C for 30 minutes, longer than that and the meat gets too stringy
I would have though a baby would be treated more like a brisket and that’s way to little time.
Apologies I got my cooking instructions from google ai
Perhaps a nice braise
She should have tried eye of newt and toe of frog first.
Unblinded study with n=1 test condition and no placebo / control.
All she needs to do is say that her conclusions haven’t been evaluated by the FDA, and she’s proved it enough to sell onion socks online.
And honestly, if she was giving baby Tylenol and antibiotics and whatall, I wouldn’t care if she put onions in their socks. It doesn’t hurt anything in the long run. But they don’t.
n=1
The thing with the onions is a well-established folk remedy. I even had it done to me when I was a little kid. I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t help (and appears to work because fevers generally go away on their own) but the OP isn’t simply making it up. Many people must have thought that it worked well enough that it was worth passing down over generations.
Ok. I didn’t realize this bullshit was grandfathered in.
