Things that make you go huh?

[kchaystack]

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/legcramp.asp

 

[Susie]

I'm a nurse. I could fill a book with the old wive's tales that we have to contend with.

 

[TeresaT]

I read that, and then started clicking on other articles and came across this little gem. Oh. My. Gosh.

http://www.snopes.com/banana-injected-blood-hiv/

I must admit, Dr. Bob Frascino is my new hero.

 

[snappyllama]

Too bad, I wish the soap in bed thing worked. I occasionally get those leg cramps and have a vast supply of soap. Too bad there isn't a reason why it would work...

On the blood in the banana article, my favorite quote: "I'm not saying it's blood but what else would it be?!". Yup, when I see discolored food my first/only/final thought is always that someone must have injected it with infected bodily fluids. What else could it be?

Sigh. Why do these people breed?

 

[TeresaT]

Too bad, I wish the soap in bed thing worked. I occasionally get those leg cramps and have a vast supply of soap. Too bad there isn't a reason why it would work...

On the blood in the banana article, my favorite quote: "I'm not saying it's blood but what else would it be?!". Yup, when I see discolored food my first/only/final thought is always that someone must have injected it with infected bodily fluids. What else could it be?

Sigh. Why do these people breed?

I get them, too. A doctor told me to take a calcium, magnesium & potassium supplement before bed to help with them. I don't do it every night, just when the cramps start up. It usually helps. I'll take them about three nights in a row and I'm good for a month or so.


The Darwinian theory is bound to catch up with them. Well, we can hope.

 

[earlene]

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/legcramp.asp

My MIL swears by this. A few years ago I was changing her sheets once and asked her what that bar of soap was doing in the bed. She said it absolutely worked and continued to keep a bar of soap at the foot of the bed up until she moved into the nursing home. Strangely enough though, it never did seem to help with her restless leg syndrome.

 

[Arimara]

Too bad, I wish the soap in bed thing worked. I occasionally get those leg cramps and have a vast supply of soap. Too bad there isn't a reason why it would work...

On the blood in the banana article, my favorite quote: "I'm not saying it's blood but what else would it be?!". Yup, when I see discolored food my first/only/final thought is always that someone must have injected it with infected bodily fluids. What else could it be?

Sigh. Why do these people breed?

My mother suffered from crippling leg cramps since I was a teen. All thanks to chemotherapy. I wish that soap thing worked too. I would have done that years ago.

 

[DeeAnna]

On the other hand, here's a myth that just might have a bit of truth in it: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle-cramps/?_r=0