cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40470051
The only reason I keep Facebook is for unhinged stuff like this
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- LilyVess@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 months
Wait. Can someone explain to me what just happened? I just googled those two meds and both are anti-parasites… What is happening here? Why are that expensive and why did they took them??
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
They could be trying to get rid of worms or some other parasites, since that’s the only prescribed use of ivermectin and mebendezol in humans. But it’s given in careful doses, not DIY from a bottle from a “wellness company”. So who knows what they’re trying to do.
- 3 months
As in all the other living being on this planet, stupidity in human being should also/usually be fatal and not coddled with ambulances and health care.
- jdf038@mander.xyzEnglish3 months
Yeah this is a waste of healthcare services for sure.
You know they voted in a way that made that ride expensive and will just go ahead and vote to make it even worse
- Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish3 months
It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.
3 monthsWhy not wear shorts if it’s so hot? Glad you’re sane otherwise ;-)
Btw, I’m only joking about all this. I went to college when that look first took off. I’ll never do it, but that’s just me.
- Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish3 months
Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.
- laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
“only objective understanding”
Too late. Should have started with that, dumbass.
- brianary@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
Exactly this! They started from some emotional/political/vibes-based treatment that didn’t work because obviously, then suddenly they want to be all facts-driven when they could face some criticism for gumming up our healthcare system with their nonsense.
Find somebody who looks at you the way conservatives look at ivermectin.
- 3 months
More like a rampantly-inbred bag of oops at the dog park when another furry fuckup is shitting out something delectable.
Two questions.
One, What the fuck kind of furry conventions are you attending?
And two, how can I join?
- Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
National-Socialist Furry Wankers, that’s who attend such places. 🤢🤮
- Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
Hey, it’s a perfectly reasonable solution for humans suffering from parasites. Just because some idiots take it for other things doesn’t reduce its usefulness as a drug for humans under specific conditions.
- 3 months
My personal theory is that a not insignificant number of the people who took it and felt better outside of normal disease progression curves just had worms too.
- Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Makes sense to me. I mean the odds that people that stupid are also riddled with parasites from ingesting shit crawling with parasites are pretty high.
- Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish3 months
I thought my depression was getting the better of me for lie 8 months and it ended up just being anemia from whip worms. Honestly I would straight up expect taking an antiparasitic would make a lot of people feel better without them and I assume salt of the earth types have them even more than I do.
- 3 months
It’s irritating that ivermectin now carries the stink of weird alternative medicine people. Its really helpful for treating rosacea (for which it is approved by the fda as a topical prescription drug, under the name soolantra)
Like its a perfectly useful antiparasitic and antiinflammatory, but now it will always just be “that weird horse dewormer that dumbfucks take”
- brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
It would hilarious, and sad, if it eventually becomes a controlled substance over abuse concerns.
- 3 months
God I fucking hope not lol. Its available over the counter at a lower percentage as a lice cream which is actually what I use since my insurance doesnt want to cover soolantra and its ridiculously expensive (like a tube of topical cream is more than $150 with goodRX)
I have no idea why the prescription is so expensive but its reputation for being unaffordable and hard to get insurance to pay for is pretty well known by people with rosacea. The lice cream from the Walmart store brand is like $25
- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish3 months
Its really helpful for treating rosacea (for which it is approved by the fda as a topical prescription drug, under the name soolantra)
Interesting as fuck. Not something you’d expect as an outsider.
- 3 months
(Not the one who down voted you, I dunno why someone did that) what do you mean by as an outsider? Just that you don’t have rosacea? :)
- Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish3 months
I knew as I was writing it that the term was bad, but couldn’t think of a good one. I meant layman, or something equivalent just for the field of medical science instead of law :-)
- 3 months
There’s nothing wrong with using the term outsider in that context, I just wanted to check if I was understanding you correctly :)
Yeah ivermectins effect on rosacea is interesting. Its believed that in some cases rosacea may be aggravated or caused by an over abundance of demodex mites (microscopic skin mites that are on everyone’s skin), but the exact relationship isnt well understood. So the ivermectin is used for its antiparasitic effect, and also being a topical anti inflammatory is helpful since rosacea is an inflammatory skin condition
The weird part is that if I understand right in clinical trials another antiparasitic was just as effective at killing the demodex mites if not more, but wasnt effective at treating rosacea. Sulfur is also uses to treat rosacea for its similarly antiparasitic and mild antiinflammatory properties. Its really strange to me what sorts of treatments it has- like topical and oral antibiotics- you wouldn’t think that would treat it but thats several of the medications approved for treating rosacea
Rosacea is one of those weird conditions thats highly personal and we don’t fully understand what’s going on with it. It can also manifest with much more variety than people realize, including ocular rosacea, where instead of people getting flushing and redness like you expect (vascular rosacea), you get grittyness and irritation of the eyes. It also comes in phymatous rosacea which can be dysfiguring (which kinda terrifies me a little bit, I don’t want to dislike my face), and papular pustular rosacea which looks a little like acne with small red bumps.
Also weird is that the condition progresses and becomes more severe over time. So exposure to your triggers doesnt just mean that your skin doesnt look great for right now, it also means it will continues to get more sensitive and harder to calm down when flaring up
- 3 months
Just about everything has been turned into a political issue in the last decade. Medicine (not Healthcare… modern medicines/drugs themselves), beer brands, avocados on toast, beef, eggs, children’s films/books (that’s not new, I guess, just hitting new levels recently), gas stoves, holidays, black pilots, etc.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 months
Yeah those things all just mysteriously “became” political.
We’ll never be able to truly know who made “black pilots” political 🙄
- mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
I’m convinced that conservatives wake up in the morning and just choose something to be mad at. Green MnM losing her high heels, gas stoves, Starbucks, avocado toast, etc.
- JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
Hey man even you have to admit the green M&M was way more sexy in heels.
- 3 months
Please don’t have wet dreams about a chocolate candy, green colored or otherwise.
- expr@programming.devEnglish3 months
It’s not that far from the truth, it’s just the thing they pick is what they saw on Fox News that morning.
- 3 months
This is my friend’s very most favorite internet article
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/08/11/mayonnaise-industry-millennials/
It is about how millennials are ungrateful, unpatriotic mayonnaise haters. It does not appear to a joke article. It fills her with so much joy lol.
- 3 months
That was hilarious.
Do other condiments have pale imitators like Miracle Whip and Just Mayo and Vegenaise? I don’t think so!
Author’s never stepped foot into an Asian grocery, and it shows.
That said, I feel reasonably certain it’s meant to be tongue in cheek humour.
- Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
There are simply too many quotable lines in this article. Amazing
A movie called “The Mayo Conspiracy” won the Best Comedy Feature at the 2015 World’s Independent Film Festival.
Im going to have to watch this film however
- MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
I’ll join your friend. This is allso my favorite article now.
Lmao i really loved this part
They’re also shunning their parents’ preferred restaurants — Applebee’s, Ruby Tuesday, TGI Fridays — to seek out more authentic fare. Old-school eateries, in turn, are diversifying in their search for new customers. Just this year, Red Lobster rolled out a waffles-and-lobster option, and Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.
Other favorites are
I’m not part of the elderly mayo masses; I’m turkey and Swiss on ciabatta with tzatziki, chipotle spread and a little basil pesto. That’s who I am, dammit. My sandwich, my self.
This is bullshit. This attitude comes to you from young people who willingly slurp down eight kazillion kinds of yogurt, not to mention raw fish and pork belly and, yo, detergent pods, so don’t talk to me about mayonnaise.
I thought young people today were supposed to be all about inclusion — about kindness and compassion and making other people feel welcome. So how about you include a little mayo in your picnic fare?
Just because something is old and white doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. Look at Shakespeare. Look at me.
- Enkrod@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
Holy shit 🤣
My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
- manxu@piefed.socialEnglish3 months
I think the tragedy is the mom not realizing that the mayo on the shelves today is for the most part only a distant relative of the “oil and egg yolk emulsion” she used to eat as a child.
That is, Millennials are justly rejecting a 100% chemical mix supposed to taste like a natural food, but whose ingredient list looks like a who’s who of food processing science, while it makes her fondly remember something that spoiled quickly if not eaten after opening. You can’t blame the young’uns for not having your memories.
- angband@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/documents/nutrition/999hlmn5308_nutrition.pdf
Hellman’s mayo does have a chemical preservative. “Natural flavors” is a bit suspect, too.
Veganaise is full of highly processed and vat-grown ingedients, just like “ben 'n jerry’s” has been trending.
Most restaurant stuff is full of compromises.
I think the 800 pound gorilla is cost vs quality, not nutrition. All those restaurants have shit quality, mcdonald’s-like production lines, and are a suck-ass eating experience.
- JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
This is why vets don’t give heartgard to new patients unless you do a heartworm test first.
OOP probably has heartworms.
- athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Horrific, anyone have a good explanation for what I went through?
Well, it wasn’t a high quality educational system, that’s for sure.
I want to jump out of my highschool window after smoking angel dust sometimes. Anyone have a good explanation for what I went through?
- Archangel1313@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
Totally normal. Your body is just releasing all the toxins you’ve built up over a lifetime of not smoking angel dust.
