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Seuss
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Re: Smelt Jars for contamination. I was taken to ER!!! [Re: JayBin] 1
#534084 - 01/28/02 02:33 PM (22 years, 4 days ago) |
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Good to hear you are back with us! This is why you should always sterilize a jar that has gone bad BEFORE you open it. Be sure there is a way for the hot gasses to get out of the jar or it will explode in the cooker. This is also why you should never ever lie to your doctor. If your parents are there, simply tell the doctor that you want to talk to him/her in private. From a (good) parents point of view, when a child's life is on the line, a little jar of mold in the closest isn't such a big deal anymore. I had a friend in high school that had a very similiar reaction to yours. He landed in the hospital with septic shock on the verge of toxic shock... which has a 90% + fatality rate (so said the doctors at the time). After two weeks on his back getting super strong antibiotics via IV he finally managed to kick the nasties in his blood. Play it safe and toss (or resterilize before you open) any jars that look like they could be bad. It sounds like you got lucky... give thanks! -Peace
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Seuss
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Re: Smelt Jars for contamination. I was taken to ER!!! [Re: JayBin]
#534129 - 01/28/02 03:22 PM (22 years, 4 days ago) |
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You tend to figure out with age that people that "know what they are talking about" are actually just better at bullshitting than the rest of us, for the most part. Doctors are human and make mistakes just like the rest of us. If you lie to the doctor, it just makes it that much harder for him/her to make a proper diagnosis. In a perfect world we would never need to seek a second opinion. Be thankful that everything turned out well and look within yourself to see what can be learned from the experience. If nothing more, you now know that doctors can make mistakes. Life isn't always pretty... thats why they make rose colored glasses. :-)
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Edited by Seuss (01/28/02 03:23 PM)
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Seuss
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Re: Smelt Jars for contamination. I was taken to ER!!! [Re: bizarro]
#534178 - 01/28/02 04:09 PM (22 years, 4 days ago) |
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Your nose can usually detect the smell of the wet spot (bacillus?) even when the jars are closed fairly tight. It has a very distinct, nasty, rotten apple smell. There is a difference between noticing that a room or box has a rotten smell to it and sticking your nose in an open jar of unknown fungus/bacteria and taking a "big whiff". My friend uses smell as her last check upon birthing a jar. If a jar looks healthy, but has any smell other than that soft earthy oder when opened, it is tossed in the trash. An unhealthy looking jar never gets opened... my friend autoclaves the "ugly" jars at 28psi for 1hr then tosses them.
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Seuss
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Re: Smelt Jars for contamination. I was taken to ER!!! [Re: theseeker]
#534908 - 01/29/02 11:09 AM (22 years, 3 days ago) |
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Prednisone is a very powerful steroid with significant side effects. Do not lie to the doctor, and do not assume that you know what will cure you. They should have done a blood test to look for nasties by now. Remember, this could be bacterial, fungal, or something completely unrelated that just happened around the same time you opened the jar.
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Seuss
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Re: Smelt Jars for contamination. I was taken to ER!!! [Re: Bowevil]
#535719 - 01/30/02 08:42 AM (22 years, 2 days ago) |
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The contamination forum has started to put together a contamination tek/faq. I am not sure what the status of it is. As far as getting sick from contamination... think food poisoning. When food gets contaminated and you eat it, you usually get sick.
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