All tag results for 'emergency room'

AHHH!!! How is this girl still alive!?

The latest episode of Strange Addiction follows a young woman who is addicted to drinking gasoline. She drinks up to 12 teaspoons a day, which means she has guzzled down about 5 gallons in the last year.

We always thought one sip of this stuff would send you to the emergency room, but it looks like we were wrong. However, we're glad we thought that because otherwise we may have tried a couple sips and developed a pretty strange addiction.

Check out the clip above to get a preview of this Sunday's episode!

Tags: disgusting, drinking, emergency room, gasoline, sad, strange addiction

This news may not make this year's Halloween a happy one for some people.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning adults 40 years of age or older to cut back on black licorice.

Eating 2 ounces of the candy a day for at least two weeks may lead to arrhythmia, or irregular heart rhythm, which could possibly land you in the emergency room.

A sweetening compound found in black licorice called glycyrrhizin can cause the body's potassium levels to drop, which may lead to abnormal heartbeat and high blood pressure.

Don't get too worked up though because (A.) we're assuming not many people eat that much black licorice and (B.) the FDA only received one report of this actually affecting a person last year. Not exactly an epidemic.

Still, you've been warned! Ha!

Tags: arrhythmia, black licorice, blood pressure, candy, emergency room, fda, halloween, irregular heart rhythm, ounces

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report indicating emergency room visits are on the rise for kids with sports and recreation-related brain injuries, like concussions.

Nearly 250,000 children were taken to the ER with concussions and other brain injuries in 2009, compared to just 150,000 in 2002!

At first glance, this looks awful. What's the deal here? Are sports becoming rougher and tougher?

Nope!

According to Dr. Julie Gilchrist, a pediatrician at the CDC and lead author of the study, parents and coaches are just becoming smarter:

Tags: awareness, basketball, brain, cdc, coaches, concussion, emergency room, er, football, hospital, injury, parents, prevention, treatment, youth sports

No word on HOW it happened, but troubled wrestler Matt Hardy was rushed to the emergency room in North Carolina on Wednesday morning after falling down a flight of stairs in his home.

Sources say he hasn't been "feeling well", but we're not really sure what that means in relation to falling down steps.

The wrestler rose to fame with his brother, Jeff, at the WWE as The Hardy Boyz, then began wrestling for TNA. After being arrested for a DWI a month ago, he was fired.

Sounds like he is in the middle of a downward spiral! We hope alcohol or drugs weren't involved either, but who knows, maybe he was just practicing a new extreme wrestling move!

Fortunately, Matt doesn't seem to be hurt too badly, as he was expected to be released from the hospital on the same day of admittance.

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: arrested, emergency room, hardy boyz, jeff hardy, matt hardy, tna, wwe

A North Carolina man is feeling the sexist sting of our federal government.

Raymond Johnson recently received the surprising diagnosis after going to the emergency room for throbbing chest pains — he has breast cancer.

With no insurance, he sought help from federal funds allocated to help people suffering from the disease who can't afford treatment.

Although cancer does not discriminate, Raymond found out our government does. In order to receive Medicaid funds to treat breast cancer, it turns out one must be a woman!

That's pretty silly considering breast cancer in men is not unheard of. Although 100 times less likely to occur, 2,140 men are diagnosed a year with the disease and 450 men lose their lives to it.

The state's Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the problem and has contacted the federal government for help, while Raymond is paying up to $10,000 for each chemotherapy treatment he undergoes to fight the illness.

We really hope the government is as quick as North Carolina to recognize the discrimination, but are a little worried because our bureaucratic government has never been known to be "quick".

Tags: breast cancer, bureaucratic, chest pains, democracy, emergency room, funds, government, illness, medicaid, north carolina

This is a case so bizarre, it could only be fit for a show called Bizarre ER!

In this episode, a little boy named Aaron has been taken to the emergency room because was experiencing stomach pains after he swallowed a POUND COIN.

Why?

Because he was licking it.

Why?

Because he's a kid and that's what kids do.

Check out the clip from the episode above and see what fate has in store for this young money-eater!

Tags: bizarre er, boy, child, coin, emergency room, hospital, money, pound, show, television

Truth or dare?

We're sticking to truth after hearing this sad story.

A University of Virginia freshman was hospitalized after CHUGGING a bottle of soy sauce at the fraternity house he was pledging.

The 19-year-old was dared to drink the bottled by the Zeta Psi frat bros, but then started having seizures and foaming at the mouth!

Oh, yuck! How horrible!

After being rushed to the emergency room, it was revealed the student had an electrolyte imbalance caused by consuming large amounts of sodium and was in critical condition at the time.

Luckily, he is okay and has been released, but university officials are now trying to determine if Zeta Psi members engaged in hazing, which is a misdemeanor in Virginia.

Hazing is not cool! It's all fun and games until someone starts seizuring and foaming at the mouth.

Be smart college kids! Don't risk you're life to be accepted by a bunch of beer guzzling broski's who had to pay dues BUY their friendships.

Tags: emergency room, fraternity, hospital, sad, seizure, sodium