Dispelling the "medical" myths

In our life, a lot of myths in which we all believe, without even knowing that it is myth. So today let's talk about the most common myths in the medical field. There really gathered some very interesting things in which many, many people believe, despite the obvious absurdity of such a myth. Well, let's see what is true and what is - fiction.





Lost contact lenses

In various quiz shows often show a situation where the actor hired creeps anywhere on the shop floor, trying to find the supposedly dropped contact lens. There is also a crowd of assistants, who are looking for these same non-existent lenses.

So, in fact, formed the myth of contact lenses dropped, and very serious people who are difficult to fool, believe in it all. In fact, between the contact lens and the surface of the eye is very strong interaction and fall lens simply can not, no matter how hard you try. Of course, if you pick the eye with your finger, you can lose the lens (and it is necessary to try). In all other cases, it is virtually impossible.

Flu can be transmitted through inoculation

Generally speaking, this is not possible if the vaccine "cooked" by the rules. Vaccination usually is a preparation of dead or weakened viruses that can not harm the body, but the body develops immunity. And if the virus preparation prepared by the rules, then there is no danger of contracting.

However, the recent increase in the preparation of low-quality drugs viruses, where physicians simply forget to deactivate the virus itself (so it was during the swine flu scare). A few batches of flu viruses have indeed been very active, they forgot to kill or weaken. As a result, healthy people were infected.

Thrust into the heart

In the movie "Pulp Fiction", which, no doubt, is a cult, a case with an overdose. Then the heroine Uma Thurman confused heroin with cocaine, and as a result her life was under threat. His companion made an injection of adrenalin straight to the heart, and that helped her to come to his senses.

In fact, it's just the director's method - no such direct injections into the heart does not. Doctors adrenaline injected into a vein, but in the case of an overdose of heroin is not entered, and the drug Narcan (also in the vein).

The needle is inserted into the heart to eject only fluid that can accumulate in the heart bag.

Older people need less sleep

In fact, after 65 years of age need to sleep even more - the body feels the need for extra rest. However, elderly often suffer from insomnia because of her sleep, they do less than younger people. As a result, there was a myth that older people may sleep less - in fact, everything is exactly the opposite.

From chocolate can be acne

Acne - a scourge of young people suffer from some ailment like almost all his life. It would seem - a trifle, but this change makes life so much as possible. So, it is often said that chocolate is one of the main causes of acne. In fact, nutritionists recently conducted an experiment in which people, acne-prone, fed chocolates (along with other foods, of course). So, the gain of the disease, "chocolate" diet did not cause. No changes were recorded.

So chocolate can be eaten, and people with skin problems - most importantly remember that excessive consumption of delicious foods can lead to obesity.

Sneezing leads to cardiac arrest

This is another common myth - many people believe that during sneezing heart just stopped for a while. In fact it's not. However, the basis for the myth can serve as a fact that the pressure in the chest greatly increases during sneezing. This, in turn, leads to changes in the rhythm of the heart. However, in fact, no cardiac arrest occurs.