Medical Professionals Are Revealing The Everyday Activities That Most People Don't Realize Are "Death Traps," And I'm Genuinely Having Trouble Breathing Right Now

As idiosyncratic who grew up successful a household afloat of doctors, you'd deliberation my parents had a cardinal rules for america kids simply based connected each the atrocious things they've seen successful their jobs. But honestly, different than an aggravated precedence connected getting our 8 hours of sleep, that wasn't the lawsuit for me.

So my curiosity has led maine to consult the aesculapian experts of the net to archer america the habits and activities that are really much unsafe than radical deliberation — truthful much, that these experts person stopped doing it themselves. We asked the medical professionals of the BuzzFeed Community, and topped it off with immoderate from Reddit. Here's what they said:

Editor's Note: Just a heads-up, these are opinions from net people, not aesculapian advice. Always cheque with a healthcare pro if you person questions!

1. "I saw a 30-something-year-old with a monolithic encephalon bleed from metastatic melanoma, wherever helium did each the close things: had it excised, wide margins, regular travel ups, etc. I ne'er wore sunscreen prior, and person ne'er gone to the dermatologist. But aft seeing his course, I made myself and my hubby appointments for physicals to get a tegument check. I started wearing sunscreen each day, and making definite that everyone astir maine does, too."

–Amy_rad16

2. "Putting my legs up connected the dashboard of a car. I emotion going connected roadworthy trips, and I had been doing that for years until I saw a trauma travel in. They had their legs connected the dash and crashed astatine a precocious complaint of speed. I saw an unfastened femur fracture with a breached pelvis, the acetabulum (hipbone socket), and the femoral caput (top of the thigh bone) travel retired done the vaginal opening. It was an contiguous reddish enactment to the operating room. I archer everyone not to enactment their legs up connected the dash."

–untameimpalar

"And it makes maine cringe seeing radical bent their arms extracurricular their cars. Sir, that's an amputation waiting to happen."

–3Zkiel

"Please, for the emotion of god: bash not fto your rider enactment their feet up connected the dashboard, oregon bent your ft retired the model if you're the driver. It's impossibly hard to drawback your hep backmost into place."

—junemertzf

3. "Smokeless tobacco. A diligent had fractional his jaw and little look removed owed to crab from 'just a pinch betwixt the feature and gums.' He was precise young, successful his 20s oregon 30s. His woman saw him for the archetypal clip post-op and ran retired crying. It's not conscionable cigarettes."

—Anonymous, Virginia, Hospital Surgical Intensive Care Unit

4. "There was a section hepatitis A outbreak astatine a fashionable fast-food concatenation wherever an worker infected 30+ radical by not washing his hands. One of the victims had liver disease; the hep A threw her into liver failure, and she yet died aft languishing successful the ICU for a fewer weeks. Pretty overmuch the full portion made appointments to spell get their hep A vaccines close aft that."

–anistasha

5. "I forced my dada to usage a snowblower for the driveway. In my full vocation arsenic an exigency country nurse, the 1 lawsuit that truly deed maine was erstwhile I was connected orientation, and had a feline travel successful cardiac apprehension portion helium was shovelling snow. He didn't survive, and erstwhile we looked astatine his ID, helium was my dad's age. What truly drove it location was seeing his 2 kids, the aforesaid property arsenic my sister and me."

–ExiledSpaceman

6. "I americium precise alert of falls, and however your beingness tin alteration catastrophically from accidental falls. My household has heard the stories astir the idiosyncratic who helped transportation a sofa downstairs, mislaid his footing, and ended up arsenic a quadriplegic; the idiosyncratic who fell disconnected the borderline of their structure and died of a caput bleed; each the aged radical who interruption ribs and dice aboriginal of complications from falls; the diving accidents; and the trampoline accidents. Nobody goes up connected my roof, but guys I wage to beryllium up determination to cleanable my gutters and repair the roof. I americium not taking immoderate chances with falling."

–One-two-cha-cha

7. "In the neurology intermediate attraction unit, I had a 26-year-old antheral who went to the chiropractor, got his cervix cracked, and past the vertebral dissection afterwards turned him into a vegetable. That's frightened maine disconnected of chiropractic ever since. Not that chiropractic doesn't person its place, but please, god, BE CAREFUL."

–Lakela_8204

"I've had aggregate radical who person had a changeable arsenic a effect of chiropractic cervix manipulation. I don't attraction what anyone says. Chiropractors are scammers."

–ingrowntoenailcheese

8. "Former trauma caregiver here… I ever let for tons of stopping region erstwhile I'm driving. So galore crashes tin beryllium avoided if determination is capable stopping region betwixt you and the car successful front. And I person nary qualms astir asking idiosyncratic to support a safer region if I'm not the driver. (It doesn't hap anymore, really, but it did erstwhile I was younger and I was regularly a passenger, due to the fact that I privation retired with groups of radical mode much often than I bash now.) And I would besides explicate that if you're driving intimately down idiosyncratic connected the road and they pat their breaks to dilatory down, you amended get mode back, due to the fact that those interruption lights don't get brighter if they halt harder."

–AccomplishedBed9021

9. "Motorcycles. I emotion them, but I volition ne'er get connected 1 again. I've held heads with oozing brains, limbs that are crushed and twisted and mangled, and person seen truthful galore traumatic amputations, preservation strictly to get to procurement... It's a horror movie. No much motorcycles for me."

–Wnl_qd

10. "I'm an ex-burn nurse, and I don't instrumentality it lightly erstwhile my fume detectors request their batteries replaced. And I decidedly don't permission immoderate freakin' abstraction heaters unattended. I besides americium a metaphorical stick-in-the-mud connected the Fourth of July, due to the fact that I bring a occurrence extinguisher and marque radical person a bucket of h2o adjacent to their fireworks."

–hamstergirl55

11. "This is benignant of stupid, but I person a atrocious wont of cleaning my ears with fabric swabs. One of my patients was walking portion doing that and deed their elbow connected a doorway frame, causing the swab to spell done their eardrum and interruption the Stapes bone. They mislaid their proceeding successful that ear, and had horrible bouts of question sickness for a agelong time."

–Vegetable_Humor5470

"Don’t ever usage fabric swabs successful your receptor nether immoderate circumstances — each they bash is battalion the wax further in."

—Anonymous, 92, retired physician

12. "I don't drink. Once a twelvemonth astatine a household gathering, different NEVER. I can't judge however galore 35-year-olds we get who person pancreatitis due to the fact that they've been drinking continuously since they were 16."

–NoCountryForOld_Zen

"I chopped down connected drinking aft seeing truthful galore radical successful their 30s and 40s dying of alcoholic cirrhosis.

I was ne'er a dense drinker, but I did spell done a play of respective months wherever I was having a mates of drinks 2–3 times per week. Taking attraction of a diligent similar that arsenic a nursing pupil stopped that habit. Now I conscionable portion precise occasionally."

–LunaBlue48

13. "Being successful isolation rooms made maine recognize that these ace sick radical we admitted contiguous were walking astir yesterday and touching each the tomatoes astatine the supermarket. So I religiously lavation my fruits and vegetables good earlier they adjacent spell successful the fridge."

–Striking-Ebb-986

14. "I had a 30-something-year aged pistillate who ended up trached, pegged, and connected beingness enactment doubly successful the aforesaid admission. She developed viral cardiomyopathy aft catching the flu. I get my flu vaccine each twelvemonth due to the fact that of work, but I'm ne'er missing a flu vaccine for the remainder of my life. I've adjacent gone arsenic acold arsenic shaming my household into getting them."

–Capable_Situation324

15. "I present person a steadfast 'no dogs allowed successful the room portion I'm cooking' rule, aft seeing a diligent who tripped implicit their pitbull and dropped an full cookware of boiling h2o connected them."

–SomebodyGetMeeMaw

16. "When I was a caller grad connected an orthopedic ward, I had a diligent who was post-knee surgery. She told maine she got the wounded by closing a drawer with her knee, truthful I person stopped doing that, and americium teaching my kids not to bash it, either."

–erilii

17. "I signed up my kid to swimming classes aft seeing kids being brought successful aft drowning. I conscionable ne'er got astir to it earlier that, and I kept procrastinating until I saw the consequences firsthand. One of the archetypal drownings I saw inactive haunts maine to this day. I signed her up the aforesaid time I got backmost from work. Also, I bash not co-sleep, for the aforesaid reason."

–Illustrious_Cut1730

18. "I've upped my weight-bearing workout crippled aft seeing truthful galore older women who fall, interruption a hip, and dice from that. Also, I cognize that erstwhile you can't squat well, things get harder (getting successful and retired of bed, oregon adjacent getting connected the toilet). Frailty = death."

–jenhinb

19. "I did immoderate shifts arsenic an anaesthetic caregiver successful a outpatient dental clinic. We had nationalist paediatric dental patients. So galore kids had rotting teeth from foodstuff and milk. My girl loved her pome juice, truthful from past on, foodstuff was heavy watered down, overmuch to her disgust. She's 18 present and has beauteous teeth."

–VerityPushpram

20. "I spot a batch of bare aged people. You tin spot the prima harm successful examination with the parts of their bodies that ne'er saw sun. I'm cautious with prima vulnerability now."

–awkward-velociraptor

21. "This is weird and oddly specific, but I don't hop connected 1 limb to enactment connected my socks 1 by one, ESPECIALLY astatine the apical of a formation of stairs. I've seen idiosyncratic get a traumatic encephalon wounded and spinal cord wounded from that. I ever punctual my ma not to bash that, too."

–Miserable_String_731

22. "I had already been an exigency section caregiver for 15 years earlier I had my archetypal child. My hubby understood — earlier we got joined — that nary kid of excavation would ever play football. It's a non-negotiable. Kids request to play and turn up without being wrapped successful bubble wrap, but I saw soooooo galore mediate schoolhouse and precocious schoolhouse shot caput injuries. Football seems close up determination with encouraging your kid not to deterioration a seatbelt."

–Poguerton

23. "I'm a veterinary nurse, and I ever cheque the washing machine, drier, and dishwasher thoroughly earlier starting them successful summation to being 100% definite wherever my feline is — to the grade that I marque aggravated oculus interaction with him arsenic I unopen the lid oregon door. Household chores shouldn't beryllium this stressful."

–Kind_Mountain1657

24. "I lived an hr distant from the Silver Lake Dunes successful Michigan, and each summer, we had radical travel successful with multi-traumas from cruising the dunes drunk and/or high. My ex wanted to instrumentality my kids up determination with a buddy, but I enactment my ft down and perfectly refused to budge an inch. Take your ain dumb aforesaid up there, buddy, but my kids aren't going."

–ThisIsMockingjay2020

25. "Use the bath earlier hopping successful the car! If you get into an accident, it could prevention you from a bladder rupture!"

–noxxienoc

26. "During an exigency country rotation successful aesculapian school, I saw a feline successful his aboriginal 40s travel successful with a terrible bosom onslaught aft drinking immoderate vigor drinks and moving out. I utilized to portion vigor drinks each the time, but I deliberation I've lone had possibly 6 oregon 7 successful the past 10 years now, due to the fact that of that.

–l3agel_og88

27. "I person a work dog, and during the 2-week process of surviving astatine the grooming site, determination was different idiosyncratic successful our radical who was a precise salient cook with a precise promising future. They went to a enactment and dove caput archetypal into a swimming pool. They ended up a paraplegic with limb movements, yet precise limited. They were grooming their canine for their peculiar needs. We lived astatine the halfway for 2 weeks together. Everyone discussed whether they fto their canine slumber successful furniture with them, and this idiosyncratic said they'd similar that. The adjacent morning, they talked astir however they fto their canine connected the bed, and however the canine was truthful saccharine and slept partially connected apical of them. It made maine smile, until they said they couldn’t consciousness it whatsoever. I went successful my country and cried. Since then, my children person learned to NEVER DIVE HEADFIRST INTO ANY POOL. My begetter besides removed diving committee from his in-ground pool. The full happening conscionable broke my heart!"

–Comfortable-Path6274

28. "As a NICU nurse, truthful galore of the babies we've placed into comfortableness care/withdrew attraction connected person been home-births-gone-wrong. That would never, ever, ever, ever, ever get maine to take immoderate different enactment but a infirmary birth."

–caramarieitme

29. "I've seen truthful galore radical tally into cardiac issues from infections that originated from poorly cared for teeth. One feline had specified extended endocarditis that it aboriginal required cardiac surgery, and each his teeth were yet removed."

–Coffee_With_Karla

30. "I don't experimentation with drugs, but the main proposal I archer radical is 'don't bash drugs, but if you bash them, person decent friends who volition assistance you.' I've taken attraction of truthful galore radical with anoxic encephalon injuries aft overdoses, due to the fact that their friends abandoned them due to the fact that they were acrophobic of getting successful trouble."

–winemominthemaking

31. "I've stopped wearing flip-flops. I've seen truthful galore toe, foot, and ankle injuries starting this successful the summertime, each due to the fact that of crappy footwear."

–w104jgw

32. "After moving successful intelligence health, I americium precise adamant that doing psychedelics and cannabis are not 100% safe. I've seen excessively galore radical ruin their minds connected them. I won't bash them and counsel my kids the same."

–Dog_Man-Star

33. And finally: "Ladders. I archer everyone that if they indispensable get connected a ladder, ever person idiosyncratic clasp the ladder. So galore unspeakable stories from falling disconnected ladders."

–michihunt1

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