“50 Shocking Medical Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Health!”
Please don’t ignore this. Have hearing tested annually, the impact on schooling, speech, milestones etc. is not to be taken lightly.
2) Untreated hearing losses, under stimulated brain possibly leading to accelerated risks of early onset memory loss, dementia etc. The worse the hearing the higher the risk. Just get your hearing tested annually, you’re never to young for a hearing loss man.
#23
Your tonsils can turn against you and hurt your immune system. I had mine taken out at age 21 after an abscess nearly killed me.
#24
Some hospitals allow medical students to practice on patients who are under anesthesia. Without the patient’s knowledge/active consent.
It is completely f****d up. They hide technical consent in overly broad terminology in the papers you sign when you go in for an operation.
They argue that they do it this way because it is hard to get volunteers for students to practice very invasive internal exams.
#25
The eyelash mite lives mainly on the human eyelash and is an 8 legged parasite that eats skin and oil. They stay hidden in the hair follicles during the day and emerge at night to eat, lay eggs and excrete waste. And that is why you should wash your face in the morning.
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#26
Not a human example (probably), but sometimes cows, goats and other animals get pregnant but instead of giving birth to a normal lamb/kid/calf it gives birth to an *”amorphous globosus”*, a spherical mass of flesh with an outer layer of skin with hair or fur, and the inside a jumbled mess of guts and tissues and sometimes teeth. They never have brains or spinal cords though, so they’re always stillborn and nonviable.
