Comment Re:Oh please (Score 2) 445
Or directly, because they had really low blood preassure, and the first joint they tried made their blood preassure drop really low.
There were a few people there, all of which, except for me, were stoned. I go "Hey, where's Tracy?" and they all start giggling. "She
fell asleep!". Well, she didn't, she fainted and would have died if I haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and salt.
Oh, dear....
I hope you didn't hurt her too badly. How did you diagnose her "low blood pressure"? A sphygmomanometer? Or by looking...
How did you know she was dying? This is a big deal, you know. We don't generally go around dying (in the short term).
Was it low blood sugar? Did you have access to a blood sugar measuring device?
Did you know that coffee is a diuretic, with the effect of reducing the total fluid volume of the body? The result is reduced blood pressure.
Did ou know that if you create a hypertonic solution in someone's stomach, the tendency is for the body to shift fluids (H2O)to reduce the salinity of the slug of salt to less toxic levels? The short term result would be a dropping of intravascular volume as fluid shifted to the site of greater concentration. This process is called "osmosis".
The better solution for the situation would have been to encourage the consumption of isotonic or hypotonic solutions, to bolster intravascular volume. If there was actually a problem.
What you did was likely harmful to her, and possibly the very worst thing you could have done.
Please don't make medical diagnoses and then perform therapy modalities unless you know what you are doing. You obviously didn't.
I apologize for being so unkind and blunt with you, as you seem to be a caring individual. Since you do have an inclination to mess with people in what you perceive to be a medical situation, please get some training. There are many good first aid programs out there, and MANY hard core books. Get one, or five, and read it.
Or, call 911. But, I confess, I'm glad you didn't, and didn't have to.
There were a few people there, all of which, except for me, were stoned. I go "Hey, where's Tracy?" and they all start giggling. "She
fell asleep!". Well, she didn't, she fainted and would have died if I haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and salt.
Oh, dear....
I hope you didn't hurt her too badly. How did you diagnose her "low blood pressure"? A sphygmomanometer? Or by looking...
How did you know she was dying? This is a big deal, you know. We don't generally go around dying (in the short term).
Was it low blood sugar? Did you have access to a blood sugar measuring device?
Did you know that coffee is a diuretic, with the effect of reducing the total fluid volume of the body? The result is reduced blood pressure.
Did ou know that if you create a hypertonic solution in someone's stomach, the tendency is for the body to shift fluids (H2O)to reduce the salinity of the slug of salt to less toxic levels? The short term result would be a dropping of intravascular volume as fluid shifted to the site of greater concentration. This process is called "osmosis".
The better solution for the situation would have been to encourage the consumption of isotonic or hypotonic solutions, to bolster intravascular volume. If there was actually a problem.
What you did was likely harmful to her, and possibly the very worst thing you could have done.
Please don't make medical diagnoses and then perform therapy modalities unless you know what you are doing. You obviously didn't.
I apologize for being so unkind and blunt with you, as you seem to be a caring individual. Since you do have an inclination to mess with people in what you perceive to be a medical situation, please get some training. There are many good first aid programs out there, and MANY hard core books. Get one, or five, and read it.
Or, call 911. But, I confess, I'm glad you didn't, and didn't have to.
