Smelling salts are now a "new" thing. Take me out back like Old Yeller.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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Kind Sir please fetch me the smelling salts I've got the vapours. ๐ชญ
I react poorly to blood donation and have had these used on me, they are incredibly unpleasant. There's no lasting harm, and they do work very well. Basically imagine a chemical burn throughout your nose, sinuses, and upper respiratory system that lasts 30 seconds. It works immediately and gets a very strong reaction
Huh. It sounds like TV had it right this time. I assumed smelling salts were a convenient plot device, rather than an actual thing.
I work in medicine and I have used these on people (and tried it once to see how it was) they're very fucking strong. It's like inhaling cat piss that's on fire.
Can confirm. I also fainted once after donating blood. They used that stuff on me. The tv does get it right this time. It works very quickly, and is similar to getting a big whiff of ammonia. Pungent, sharp, yet kind of the same feeling like when your nose suddenly clears if you have a cold and can breathe again.
Edit: lol, I didn't know they were actual ammonia. Go figure. I'm trying to not light up the room so scrolled past the image at first.
Don't most first aid kits have smelling salts?
I've never seen them before, honestly I wasn't even aware these were a thing
Everywhere I've worked has them however everywhere I worked has high temp work environments where passing out from hest exhaustion happens. They're always in the more expensive first aid kits though which I don't think are required.
I need to make a machine that pours this shit down my nose/mouth at a time I set. Finally an alarm that I will wake up from .
Maybe check out alarm clocks for deaf people, they make some that work on scent
Will do
On that subject, get an alarm that has a vibrating paddle that goes under your pillow. They have the vibrator and they're like 5x louder than a normal alarm. They're like $20 on Amazon and they're a lifesaver for people like me.
Under the pillow. Right ๐๐ซจ
In movies and TV it always looked like they cracked something in half. I'm wondering if they've been coming in a little pouch now for a long time but that cracking-in-half type is now movie shorthand for smelling salts so they keep doing it.
The ones in the movies exist irl. In the same way youve never seen the tube ones, I've never seen them in a pouch until now
Glass ampoules definitely still exist for smelling salts and similar. Honestly I assumed it was because they'd eat through most other viable packaging, now I dunno. But they definitely still exist. My roommate has some.
Lucky. Mine just has asbestos in the walls.
Better there than in your lungs.
True enough.
My roommate and I would get these things, though I've never seen a pouch version.
If anyone fell asleep on the couch you would get hit with some smelling salts.
Woke you right the fuck up lol
These are also used by competitive weightlifters.
That's cool... I have a whole bottle (smelling salts) of it in powder form in case I need to pop off a personal record in one of my exercises.
I have a whole tray of it I just keep sitting on the floor... Okay it's just a litterbox but still, it'll grow hair on your chin!
lol...
A third party is required.
What's the second party doing while the third wakes up the first?
Holding them down maybe?
The third party swiftly rips open the second party to revive the first. Party on.
Well the real answer is that they should ensure only people actively helping are next to the person until paramedics arrive.
More often they're causing a bigger scene
Swedish Dream Cookies straight out of the oven will work too!
That's how you leave someone's brain.