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Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Well I don’t know about drinking ammonia and bleach but I have heard about a child who drank bleach in the 60s? 70s? She was about 5 y/o back then and was playing with my mother (also a child at the time). They found some old bottles in a shed and the friend wanted to show off she could have a drink like a grown-up… So she drank it thinking it was vodka or something. It was about a cm or so at bottom of the bottle, something about a mouthful. A few minutes later she started feeling sick, pain in her stomach, so they told her parents, who immediately rushed to the hospital.

They had to wash her whole digestive system, intestines and stomach included.

She survived. The interesting part and the reason I always remember the story is that when the doctors washed her guts, they found a dead tapeworm. The bleach killed it. And the hospital staff gave it back to her in a jar haha. What a souvenir.

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pfjarschel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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Unaware7013@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The interesting part and the reason I always remember the story is that when the doctors washed her guts, they found a dead tapeworm. The bleach killed it. And the hospital staff gave it back to her in a jar haha. What a souvenir.

Uhhhh, doesn't the digestive system break down and slough off in tapeworm like pieces? I remember the BtB episode on those crazy Church of Bleach fuckers, and that was one of the symptoms the children had after their parents forced them to drink small amounts of bleach over a time. Here's an ABC article that comments that they claim it kills parasites, so I'm not convinced it was an actual tapeworm...

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- Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have no idea on the effects of regular small doses of bleach. My story was about a potentially deadly one-off large dose of bleach. This girl was in pain and couldn’t walk because of it. She was hospitalized. This isn’t like what the article says the scammers do.
  
  the doctors identified the tapeworm as such. It wasn’t “these pieces look like tapeworm bits”, instead it was “here is a 3 metre long worm that washed out dead during the procedure, we put it in a jar for you”. They are very characteristic if you’ve ever seen one.
  
  Probably low doses of bleach that don’t get people hospitalized also don’t kill parasites. I’m pretty convinced that a life threating dose of bleach can kill intestinal parasites before killing the host.
  
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