Just for laughs, really.
What crazy ideas have you heard for different health ailments? I'm not talking essential oils and stuff that people truly love and believe in, I'm talking about 'out there' cures.
My SIL's MIL (her hubby's mom) is completely crazy. Sweet as can be. My own MIL was poo-pooing my fight with cancer as being not as 'bad' as her sciatica (as she will have to live forever with the sciatica and there is a cure for cancer)---and this other lady is sweetly telling me she's praying for me and hopes I will keep her in the loop--how kind.
Anyhow, she was saying that she is really in great health (age 94, no she is not, but anyway) but she has these random bouts of vertigo which are really bad. I've had these and they are awful. I asked her what she'd done to alleviate them and she said "My doctor has me eating potato chips and drinking a Coke for it". She's dead serious. And she said she knew a lot of other people who got the same advice. (There must be some nutjob doc out there.)
I had the grace not laugh until I was in the car going home. DH was baffled and tried to figure out how this could work.
There's got to be some other amazingly funny 'heals' out there. Let's share.
on the flip side, she thought I was crazy when I gave her a container of corn starch to have on hand Incase the baby got a diaper rash and the traditional creams didn’t work or she didn’t have any rash cream.
My friend invited me to go to go swimming and grandma told me not to go because I was on my cycle. I asked my mom an she said it was an ‘old wives tale.’
Mom told me not to ever mention using a tampon to grandma or she would freak out!
Barb,
My parent’s time cola syrup was supposed to be really good for an upset stomach. When I took my daughter to the pediatrician they changed it saying no to anything with sugar, no coke, 7up, etc. My MIL said they were wrong and coke was good! Hahaha
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I haven't personally tried it, but I have heard it recommended and sworn by as a sure and certain way to stop a cold in its tracks. One clove, and shove it, so to speak.
I'll try it if you will...
I am going to guess that the science behind it is that one's electrolytes get low, and sugar too if we don't eat right or miss a meal.
This can be an urgent matter in many cases, such as diabetes. Or, if one is on medications that can alter electrolytes, glucose, thyroid hormones, etc.
The salt in chips, the glucose in soda, the liquid for dehydration, even the carbonation may fit in there somewhere.
I do think that foods can heal, but that would not be to the exclusion of other fixes.
I have had to drink a little coffee on rare occasions to help me sleep.....ha ha ha,
go figure. Do not have a clue for the science behind that.
This is not to discount one bit your statement as true: "There must be some nutjob doc out there". Lol.