I love that Dr. Mike was more concerned about the little girl swallowing a seed, but I’m more concerned about her psychological health bc she’s gonna think watermelon tastes like milk😂😂😂
This pill-in-gummibear hack is going to backfire so hard. I once was zoned out when I took one of medication for my migraine and chewed it instead of just swallowing and I almost threw up. It was so disgusting. They make those pills disgustingly bitter for a reason so kids no nom on them like skittles.
"How to operate a swing from an unsafe distance" "How to deceive your child into drinking milk through a watermelon" "How to deceive your child into mistaking water for soda using countless unhealthy substances that negate the entire point" ...These people, I begin to suspect, are incredibly shitty parents. Like, those kids are going to talk about it on talk shows some day.
I have absolutely used the citrus essential oil trick on rubber hair bands! In super fine hair it can get incredibly tangled by the end of the day. There is enough acidity to break the rubber band and does nothing to the hair, an absolute game changer.
I have used lemon essential oil on my own hair to remove the rubber bands (my hair is super fine and entangles easily). And it does nothing to the hair, and it works perfectly to remove the rubber bands. Clearly, Dr Mike never had to deal with entangled hair in those rubber bands… it’s a nightmare to get it off. However… Everything else in the video is absolutely bonkers, and Dr Mike is right on those… 😂
@X CALIBER it helps reduce oil production and helps with hair growth and strengthens the hair follicles. A lot of companies who produce hair care use it not only for the smell but the pros of using it in hair:)
@Ananya Guha actually it’s good for your hair. It helps reduce oil buildup on your hair and scalp and helps maintain a healthy scalp:) so it does more good than bad and it’s definitely a lot better than just ripping the rubber bands out and probably ripping out a bunch of hair with it😅
Baby oil will work just as well on the hair rubber bands that are like the ones used in Rainbow Looms. I use oil when the hair is too tangled to just snip them out.
“Why don’t mommy put away her TikTok for a second and pay attention” The fact he had the audacity to say this makes him better than most parents and he does not even have a kid 😂😂😂😂
Hey Dr. Mike! I have dealt with chronic migraines my whole life, they started when I was 8 and I'm in my mid twenties now. I know the hair pulling for migraines seems counterintuitive, but it can help depending on the person! Light pulling can give a different sensation to focus on to distract from the migraine. When my medication doesn't work, having another sensory input to focus on is the only thing that can help combat the waves of pain. Definitely depends on the person, but it might help! 5 minute crafts was onto something, but it isn't nearly what they were describing.
@Thomas Rocke yeah there's no real evidence, but hundreds seemed to have had felt better so I took her as a last hail mary since nothing else would hardly touch them and it worked thankfully ❤️. Maybe more can somehow get relief through whatever means
@pinkdreamicecream I'm glad your grandmother's experienced relief, however from what I've seen online there's no real evidence that a daith piercing helps with migraines. I think she may be experiencing a placebo effect but if it helps her that's better than getting regular migraines so it's not a bad thing. Just didn't want people unnecessarily getting a piercing that could get infected or hoping it would be the cure to their migraines. It's really more of an aesthetic choice than a medical one
My grandmother had dealt with migraines for over 50 years and I had heard good reviews about daith piercings. Many sufferers had described the relief they'd felt, so I thought it'd be worth a shot. I took her to get it pierced and she hasn't had one in three years. Completely migraine free ❤️. When something is continually pushing against the pressure point, it relieves pain 👍 You might have heard of this already, but just thought I'd share 😊
@AScarletLlama Absolutely fair. And it's more than a distraction too. We know very well how big of a role placebo and relaxation can play especially with chronic pain. So we're talking real effects here.
I’ve got to defend parents on the removing rubber bands while your kid sleeps hack. Yes, sometimes moms wait till their kids are sleeping to deal with stuff. One time my son had gotten a bad sunburn on his nose (yes he should have re-applied sunblock during the day) but anyway, he would not let me put the aloe vera gel on it while he was awake. I waited until he was asleep.
I couldn't ride a bike until I was 6 years old. My mom got lots of backpain trying to push me so we took an old hokey stick and taped it on. Worked like a charm.
I was 8 years old when i learned to ride a bike. it just heres a two wheeler and we will guide you on the take off and away you got ended up in my moms rose bush a couple of times and in many ditches
@samdoesstuff Depends on where you live I'd imagine. Like, here in the Netherlands everyone has a bike and most kids learn how to ride a bike somewhere between 3 and 6 years old. But we cycle everywhere, so it makes a lot of sense. Like, I learned how to ride my bike before I learned how to swim.
It'll work unless you have sites inversus, or a hernia, or are on an incline, or ate too much before getting in bed, or have a smaller than average stomach, or have your esophagus shifted for any reason. Meanwhile sleeping with your head raised accomplishes the same thing more consistently
To be fair, when I have migraines, pulling and wiggling my hair helps a bit (doesn't relieve it, but makes it a bit more tolerable while the medicine kicks in). Its probably more cause I'm paying attention to the hair pulling more than the pain for the moment, but hey, I'll take it.
My mom used to be an ER nurse and we both get migraines, she swears by this. It doesn’t 100% get rid of it but can definitely help! The most helpful thing for me is an imitrex, Tylenol, icepack on my head and heating pad on my neck
Agree with all of the above--I don't get migraines, but I definitely tug on my hair when I've got headaches, and if I've had it up in a ponytail or bun, taking it down sometimes helps. The fact that he immediately thought that one was ridiculous tells me he's never had long hair. :D
speaking as a person who has migraines often as well, like the really bad ones where you see auras and vomit, yk how people often like rub the area that hurts? so like i was rubbing my temples and it made it feel worse but i tried rubbing the pressure points on the back of my head that are above my hairline and it helped, but it also helped when i took my hair down cause it like, relieved the pressure? im not saying this is foolproof or scientific in any way, its just what i experienced and what works for me sometimes, although taking ibuprofen helps the best for me.
The first bandaid one: Offering a child a choice often gives them a feeling of control over the scary situation they're facing, and they're more likely to comply.
My kids and grandkids go through bandaids like they are candy. They want one for EVERY scratch. The funniest time though was when my husband, a Lt. Col in the army had to go to work with a Ninja Turtle bandaid on his finger, because that is all we had at the time!
I have trichotillomania and honestly brushing my hair is an alternative that I use to stop myself from pulling, so while these 5 minute craft things drive me nuts because they are all kind of crazy, that one in particular is at least stemming from something realistic. But yeah, psychology appointments every other week and supervised prescriptions have helped too lol.
So I legit think the heartburn hack works. I just know that if I lay on my left side I don’t have heartburn. If I lay on my right side, I get heartburn pain within 3-5 minutes.
@Marcos Sintes yes, but Dr. Mike never said it didn't work, just that there are better ways to treat heartburn such as antacids or sleeping with your head raised. Sleeping with your head raised works for the same reason as sleeping on your left side, but it also works for people with hernias or situs inversus as well as other conditions that could deform the stomach or shift the position of the esophagus
@Yeasstt that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Treating the symptoms is not bad. Sure you should go to the doctor if you have frequent stomach issues, but if you have them just occasionally after eating a whole cheese pizza this method works pretty well, much better than the alternative which is usually nothing. Antacids work well, too, but in my opinion the relief doesn't last long, so probably also not a full night.
The sleeping on the left side thing...that's actually something one of my doctors recommended when I was a kid, along with the bed raising and the not eating too close to bedtime. 😅 If I sleep on my right side or flat on my back for too long, though, I'll wake up choking on reflux, and that's basically the end of any hope for a good night's sleep.
@Yeasstt I keep a bunch of pillows on my bed just to keep me inclined now that I'm an adult, but when I was a kid, I had to either sleep on my left side or wake up every other night choking on reflux and/or puking my guts up.
It is helpful, but doesn't always work. There could be issues like sites inversus or a hernia which would place the esophagus farther to the left, meaning you'd have to sleep on your right side instead. Plus if you sleep on any sort of negative incline it won't work as well. Sleeping on an incline (head raised) will keep your gastric juices at the bottom of your stomach instead of the side, which serves the same purpose but is more consistent
Milk and honey are actually great skin treatments! I've made homemade masks before, using plain oatmeal, milk, and honey. It really balanced and moisturized my dry winter skin. Also the hair-combing thing was just for occasional anxiety, not the actual disorder.
The dark, repressed wishes of these life-hackers are beginning to show... Some people should not be allowed to raise children. "They turned out fine!" They will say, conveniently many years before the murders start.
man I was a complete masochist when it came to band aids, I didn't care how much it would hurt as long as it was the fabric band-aids. Just the idea of slowly ripping it off was so satisfying.
I just wanna say the editing and (im assuming the same person) the little adlibs from the camera man are so perfect and absolutely hilarious it really completes these videos 🙏
If/when Dr. Mike ever has a daughter or a niece, he will learn very quickly that you NEVER use rubber bands on hair. It will knot the hair and they ARE impossible to get out without a lot of ripping, pulling and screaming.
Imagine this mixed race girl with thick curly hair has pe at school they decide my hair needs to be tied up I don't have a hair bobble so they use a rubber band. Took them ages I mean ages to get the thing out my hair.
Yeah. The girl is sleeping. It's not obvious to Dr Mike, but the trouble is that mom doesn't want to hurt her child or wake her up, both of which would happen if she tried to take then off her while she sleeps. My fix would actually be to leave them in and deal with it later.
The lemon essential oil would be extracted from the skin/peel of the lemon, not the juice, it's mostly going to be limonene that breaks down the rubber.
The indigestion one where you switch sides is actually true for myself. I get it bad sometimes during the night and laying on my left side fixes it while right side makes it worse or continues it.
@murderoustendencies 🙄 while indigestion is not the same medical condition as acid reflux, many people.use the terms interchangeably (erroneously, but it is still a thing). For me, laying on my left side relieves symptoms of acid reflux.
To keep blisters from forming, I always keep some duct tape while hiking. Just apply a little to any "warm spots" on your feet to keep blisters from forming!
If you feel overly stressed before something and you have no other option to healthy cope with anxiety (you won’t go to the therapist 5 minutes before a meeting XD) Just find a seat where you can sit comfortably and focus on your breath, take slow but deep breaths, inhale using nose, exhale with your mouth. This helped me a lot.
the hair brushing one kinda works cuz when I'm stressed out, I just brush my hail and it distracts me from why I'm anxious and it makes me feel pretty, and yes, I do bring my hairbrush everywhere I go cuz my hair gets knotted easily.
That "high end swing" is something I see a lot in Sweden, I always thought of them as "multi child swings", because they can fit up to four small kids.
THe one with the mum & the kid on the swing. I almost hit a kid with my wheelchair because a mum was paying more attention to her phone instead of her kid. To avoid it ting the kid I had to crash my wheelchair abusing pain to myself & damage to my wheelchair. The mum fended her kids actions & refused to help me. Luckily a nice man was near by & came run ING to help me. After he told me what he saw & he had zero sympathy for the mum. Parents out there, parent your kids.
Hi Doc Mike! the sleeping on the left side actually helped me A LOT during the time I had severe heart burn and even helped my friends who had heart burn from stress, it does actually work.
The one with the band-aid hearts isn't so much about making the band-aid pretty, but about giving the child several _options_ to choose from, which makes them feel some control over the situation. It's a tried and true way of getting obstinate kids to cooperate. It works with clothes, food, chores, etc.
@hamjudo lol. But that's the point, you're giving the child a reason to cooperate (some kids, or at some ages, are non-compliant). So, you can say, "do you want to hold my right hand or my left hand?" But we both know, Daddy is holding his kid's hand, mandatory.
I completely agree that giving the kid a choice makes most issues easier. Plus, kids are quite difficult to deal with anyway so you might as well make it easier with toys and treats,, ect. ❣️❣️ Who doesn't love a cute baby doll
I just wanted to say that it could be advisable to set up the band aids like that. When you have all the different designs, it makes the kid stop thinking about "I don't want one" But it intrigues them to think "Which one should I pick" instead
I literally had the same thought with the combing and anxiety. DO NOT ever create a new habit that might stress you out. I somehow created the OCD thing were I need to look if the oven is turned off and all lights are turned off for at least 7 times before I can leave the house.. and I even come back for second time to check the lights and the door again. This is absolutely NOT how to deal with anxiety.. it acutally produces only more unnecessary anxiety I never had before. 😅 Working on it, but it's honestly very hard to get rid of this behavior. Better way to deal with stressful situations like work meetings is to integrate a routine, create a healthy sleeping shedule and try to not use your phone in the evening, eat well, speak to a person you trust 100% or take a little walk right before the meeting. Find things you actually enjoy and integrate them into your day more often, learn to notice triggers and situations that let anxiety spike. Sport is also a good stress relief. That's what I learned for me, what works for me. I'm not a professional.
I would love to see some kind of collab between Dr. Mike and Ann Reardon of "How to Cook That" (probably virtual, as she lives in Australia), as she does a lot of videos debunking hacks, especially from content farm sites like 5-Minute Crafts. You could even make it more "fun" by having Ann try to figure out what exactly is wrong on the medical hacks, and Dr. Mike try to figure out what's wrong with the baking/cooking hacks. She recently had KZclip take down her video warning people about the dangers of fractal wood burning, while leaving up the actual fractal wood burning videos she was warning about, so she could use a boost in viewership that could come from such a collab.
I'm really happy to see her being recommended. That fractal wood burning episode was perhaps the most instantly fatal thing she's debunked but there's been several dangerous "hacks"
For the skin, the lemon concoctions are overkill, but lemon juice alone actually works for acne, it was a huge help for me while I didn't have a dermatologist recommend a facial cream, basically the lemon juice, all it does is dry your skin
I had some really unhealthy OCD coping mechanisms in high school. Turns out I still do. The anxiety is still a thing, just not around basic activities or social interactions. I clacked my canines against one another. Now both are flat instead of sharp on the right side of my jaw. I also chew on my lower lip. It must look a state to other people because I make my lip bleed all the time.
Okay so you're right about everything, except for one thing. I can't tell you the reason why it works, but pulling hair absolutely helps with tension headaches, migraines, sometimes sinus pressure headaches, and I found it to be helpful for two other kinds of headaches, as well. Plus sometimes seizure auras. Not always but a decent amount of the time. I'd love to know the scientific mechanism behind that, but it really does work. Also, if you go very gently, and you just pull a baby's earlobes diagonally downward (so gently that your fingers will slip off of the earlobes easily), You can help a baby with changing elevation pain, and this Is a trick I've used that has helped many a baby on an airplane. I learned it when I had a new baby.
I live in the uk and I found it a lil funny when dr Mike was complimenting the swing because every decent park I’ve went to has one ( even some rlly bad parks have them ) . Ty for reading and have a good day !
Knowing how worked up Dr. Mike gets when he sees q-tips being put in ears, he'll probably freak out when I say I once stuck an allen key into my ear. Basically, I was wearing earplugs and when I went to pull the earplug out of my ear, it ripped in half leaving half of it stuck in my ear canal. My solution was to stick an allen key into my ear to fish the earplug out. Yes I did it carefully lmao
As a person who suffers from violent migraines, the pulling of the hair actually gives temporary relief. Grab it by the scalp and apply pressure. I learned that from my father who also suffers fr migraines , Apparently an old trick to use
I have chronic migraines as well and I've tried to pulling the hair trick but it only works temporarily unfortunately. I don't know if I'm distracted by it and I'm not paying attention to the pain or if it actually works.
A really good trick to help relieve migraines (as someone who suffered from them 6-8 times a month for years), if you put your feet in warm, almost hot water, and then put an ice pack on the back of your neck and then curl up with your legs to your chest, this helps immensely. Also, I would get nausea along with it, and a Dramamine worked wonders. Also peppermint essential oil in your diffuser helps with migraines too.
Pressing up into the insides of your eyebrows with your fingertips along the brow bone also helps - I suspect it's because the skin tugs on the internal sinuses just a bit. Many migraine symptoms seem to be related to sensitivity or irritation of the trigeminal nerve which runs through there. Unfortunately it's a brief effect, like the hair pulling, but if you hurt like that you take anything you can get.
@Matilda right, plus pharmaceutical medication should be avoided if possible. It is horrible for your liver and body and most pharmaceutical medications have horrible side effects many which include death. Whether rare or not, it's not good for your liver at all. Even OTC medication will mess up your liver. Everyone is so gung ho about getting prescribed medications without realizing they do damage to your body just like illegal drugs and alcohol. You want to avoid medications if possible, and any doctor not telling you that is not protecting your health. Of course medication is needed and helpful, but everyone just says, oh get medication for you doctor for this and that without trying remedies that are non invasive and may actually help.
As a person who temporarly deafened myself because of putting qtips in my ear, I'm so happy you got angry at what you thought was the recommendation of putting qtips in your ear as a way of removing wax. You never realize how good auditory depth perception is until its gone, and you learn to cherish it if it comes back
7:08 AS SOON AS I SAW THE WORDS ‘essential oil’ I KNEW DR MIKE WOULD BE ANGRY ‘oh mom doesn’t know how to take off a hair tie… *sees lemon essential oil* 😡🤬 what is she gonna do with that essential oil 😡🤬’ the editing in dr mike’s videos are hilarious
The heartburn one seriously works. I get it alot. and it can literally come on in seconds if I roll onto my right side. And disappear within minutes of rolling back onto my left
I actually have one of those suction cups. Many people in my family are allergic to bees and it does work to remove bee stingers. Also great for if a venomous animal bites you. That being said if it's highly venomous... not helpful! Go to the doctor!
Yeeeeaaaahhh.. No. Using one of those things might make removing the stinger easier but so will a pair of tweezers (or better yet use a knife or card to scrape it out) and they are the last thing you should use for anything venomous because the suction will simply cause more veins to burst allowing for more venom to enter the blood stream.
@Sonic Cookie Once the venom has entered the bloodstream, it can’t be sucked out. It’s impossible to suck venom out once it’s been absorbed, so you’d basically need to do it immediately and even then it won’t do much.
Amazing, we are thinking this at this point! Thank you Doctor Mike for being such an amazing inspiration to all off us! Even if its just Reacting to things you still try and make an Explanation! Keep up the amazing work!
That hair combing one makes me laugh.. Since I was a kid, I ended up with an OCD habit of grabbing a chunk of hair and rubbing it across my thumb. I'm in my mid 30s and still to this day can't get through my day without doing it at bunch.
I like how at 5:00 the second lady DOESN'T HESITATE on dropping the fruit on the ground. She could've just put a bit of water on the first one's hand and wash the eyes with care, it works better. It reminds me of those movies where a veteran/war hardened lady immediately tears their dress bottom off to make a makeshift rag for someone else (even if it's a small cut, just for the fun destroy a 100$ dress)
actually this leaning to the side worked one for me when i had really bad stomach ache... no clue why, but somehow switching side from time to time gave relief
Dr Mike: Those plastic rubber bands in the hair tug at fine hairs and really hurt coming out. Any kind of oil (hair oil is fine rather than essential oil) helps disintegrate the rubber bands. This is a good hack, we been doing it for forever.
About the lemon essential oil one: citrus essential oils contain limonene which dissolves rubbers and grease pretty well (was used to clean engines and bikes a while back). That’s why it pops the rubber bands. If you want to witness it you can peel an orange close to an inflated balloon it will pop if any of the oil gets in contact with the rubber! It’s pretty toxic and corrosive in large quantities or if it’s pure enough, like most essential oils though.
So I'm pretty sure that olive and coconut oil don't fall into the category of citrus essential oils but they break rubber bands too, I put both of these oils in my hair from time to time in braids and I once secured them with rubber bands instead of hair ties and they wouldn't stop breaking until I realized it was the oil in my hair
3:10 I love those swings. Those are the ones where if you get two or three people you can spin it so fast that its impossible to not get thrown off. They're like soft tire swings
Hi Dr. Mike. I’m a teacher from Toronto, Canada. Would you ever consider doing a series on the American Sex Education curriculum across states? It seems like it varies so much and could be a great commentary coming from a doctor or multiple doctors and teachers who work in different states. Great video!
@Jay Kay to be honest I dont remember much of my Sex Ed classes (in the UK) .. I do hope they are informative these days. I remember being separated girls v boys in year 6 to talk about puberty. It wasnt particularly informative, however there were only 4 girls in my class, and two of them lit up like beetroot whenever anything bodily came up, so I feel that may have hindered the experience. It would be fascinating if there were to be videos on every state and their guidelines vs. what several schools actually teach.. to perhaps see the huge difference between each state, and also the consistency between guidance and the real thing.
Just for those who didn't know, putting a bandaid on your neck could be an extremely bad idea as it can have to potential to peel or rip off the skin on your neck. Sometimes it could be worse than others, depending on what brand you use
@Stezika15 I'm talking from experience I have a scar on my neck from when I ripped off skin on my neck with a bandaid. It is possible, maybe not very, but possible
it sound like its something possible but our skin stretch,move and is far stronger than you think thus the idea that you can rip it off sound less than possible unless you got a skin condition, than its very certainly something to think about
To be fair, the "laying on the other side" thing in bed DOES relieve indigestion. I control my heartburn with diet, but occassionally still have burning at night. Turning over helps.
Actually, getting the kid to pick the bandaid can be a life hack. If you need your kid to do something, telling "you have to do this" might end up with fighting, but giving them two seemingly different options that eventually lead to the same desired outcome will make the child psychologically think they made the choice and they will feel appreciated and feel happier about it. Even if it's just to pick whether they want a "grownup" bandaid or a Batman bandaid.
As someone who has GERD and Gastroparesis and has spent many hours with my gastroenterologist finding ways to alleviate symptoms, I have to say that laying on the left side vs the right side does make a big difference if symptoms are flaring up. I know it won’t cure heartburn but there is truth to that one.
True, and I have had doctors advise lying on my left side among other things multiple times. It’s a shame he doesn’t realize he could help his patients with such a simple lifestyle change.
@Giulio17 well you aren't looking very hard. I've read at least 4 different ones with 20+ and 2 with 50+ participants And across the total studies (between the US and Europe etc) it is a total of 300+ people taking the studies that I have read alone That is apparently enough scientific rigour for multiple Drs to recommend it as a treatment plan to *help* manage a common issue
@YetAnotherVegan I know that from an anatomical point of view it makes sense, but I'm not able to find any statistically relevant studies proving the theory behind your thought
@Cat Hep I already checked all of them, they're not relevant sadly. At least the one I found. They were performed on a really small sample size (about 10 patients). They are not statistically relevant
@Giulio17 thanks for chiming in! There actually have been relevant studies done on left side vs right side sleeping and the alleviation of GER symptoms, including those related to pregnancy. The shape of the stomach and the relative position of the esophageal opening to the stomach actually prove a physical relationship to how (given anatomic normativity) this would work. The esophageal opening on the stomach is offset from the center. Offset to the right, by a significant amount actually. Because of this non-central entrance, the stomach is more prone to acid, food, and beverage leaks when lying on the right side versus the left side. Think tilting a beverage can to where the opening is down near your mouth. Pretty easy to get the liquid out in that position, yeah? Contrarily, sleeping on your left side brings the larger side of your stomach to the lower position and puts the esophageal opening towards the top. Like tilting that same beverage can so that the opening is up at your nose instead of by your mouth. Not so easy to get at it now, right? Not impossible, just not easy. It’s anatomically supported, as well as supported by proper medical studies (and of course anecdotal evidence). It’s not a cure, any more than eating a tums is a cure, but it certainly helps. Especially if you go to bed on a **mostly** empty stomach so there’s not so much splashing around and needing all that acid for digestion.
Oh my god lmao... I actually used to wet those small bandages until it was comfortable enough to take them off, really good lifehack at 6:06. I just can say I love it but it's pretty effective to evade most of the pain
You and Ann Riordan from How To Cook That should collab on debunking 5 minute crafts and other dangerous KZclip hacks! Love your videos, thank you for educating people!
I don't agree. he is judging a lot of actual real hacks which are used in many countries - like the rope on the swing and the stick on the toy car. they work and have been used for generations where I come from - to alleviate back pain.
Hey Mike I have a question. As a person who normally uses a-tips to clean my ears I have heard and by your reaction I know I shouldn't do that but most of the things that are recommended to clean my ears are a liquid, you see I can't have any type of liquid in my ears because it causes a lot of pain in my ears after a few minutes to hours and the pain lasts more that a week. So I don't know how to properly clean my ears if that's the case, do you have any recommendations for me?
The oil thing on hair bands can actually work depending on the kind of oil cuz some oils can eat through latex. which, for lack of a better example, is why you shouldn’t use oil based lube and latex condoms. (Of so I have been taught) lol
The lemon oil works on the thin elastics because it's acidic, also rubbing alchohol works. I used to do it when they got stuck in my hair and I didn't want to cut it out.
The way Sam questioned how to cope with anxiety shows that therapy isn't the first thing people think of when dealing with something like that. As a psychology mayor student it really stood out to me. Not saying Sam is ignorant or anything, just stating the importance of therapy in people's everyday life. Great work there Mike❤️
@Wolfy Therapists are cheap, comparatively, running in the 50$/per 30 minute session range. but a licensed therapist cant write prescription, and thanks to certain sections of of the Affordable Care Act, mental health professionals are now required to be able to write prescriptions. Which means a Psychiatrist, or a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Which means someone with around 40k in student loan debt, who spends roughly the cost of a small apartments rent for their licenses and certifications and whatnot...
I remember as a child chewing antibiotics (I think I had strep). My only other experience with any sort of "pill" were chewable vitamins and no one told me I had to swallow the meds whole....
Fun fact: you can clean your ears with q-tips you just have to be very very careful (it’s Bette to do it after having a shower/bath because the water loosens the wax.)
I love that Dr. Mike was more concerned about the little girl swallowing a seed, but I’m more concerned about her psychological health bc she’s gonna think watermelon tastes like milk😂😂😂
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I’m more concerned about the fact that they even put straws in the watermelon in the first place 😂
4:44 “Did they just create an OCD-type coping mechanism?” 😂 As someone with OCD, I literally laughed out loud.
PLZ as someone with OCD too. I find that biting my fingers sometimes relaxes me😭😭
Put honey on your feet and milk at 3:00 wait for a year and boom no dry feet
same🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruh 😂
SAME 😂😂😂😂
This pill-in-gummibear hack is going to backfire so hard. I once was zoned out when I took one of medication for my migraine and chewed it instead of just swallowing and I almost threw up. It was so disgusting. They make those pills disgustingly bitter for a reason so kids no nom on them like skittles.
No likes at all but third comment?
I saw “put whipped cream on water” and went so feral I blacked out for five minutes, maybe that’s the craft they’re talking about
"How to operate a swing from an unsafe distance"
"How to deceive your child into drinking milk through a watermelon"
"How to deceive your child into mistaking water for soda using countless unhealthy substances that negate the entire point"
...These people, I begin to suspect, are incredibly shitty parents. Like, those kids are going to talk about it on talk shows some day.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who found that completely ridiculous
I have absolutely used the citrus essential oil trick on rubber hair bands! In super fine hair it can get incredibly tangled by the end of the day. There is enough acidity to break the rubber band and does nothing to the hair, an absolute game changer.
Or dont use rubber? That looked like a bad idea from day 0; feels bad too. I prefer cotton or some other fabric. Rubber... jesus thats dumb.
Thats why i bring lemons to a party and squeeze the skin to bring the oils out, the rub it on a balloon
Or you can use ponytail holders.
I have used lemon essential oil on my own hair to remove the rubber bands (my hair is super fine and entangles easily). And it does nothing to the hair, and it works perfectly to remove the rubber bands.
Clearly, Dr Mike never had to deal with entangled hair in those rubber bands… it’s a nightmare to get it off.
However… Everything else in the video is absolutely bonkers, and Dr Mike is right on those… 😂
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imagine if they are bald.
Person: My head hurts
Dr Mike: Oh im sorry i cant help you with that BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO HAIR
@Silver Songbird😅😅😅😅
I like ur cut-g
Suction cups.
“Why don’t mommy put away her tik tok and pay attention” 😂😂 Dr Mike is a better parent than most people and he doesn’t even have a kid
LOL TRUE
Don’t read my name
I mean. He has Bear🤷♀️
@Fisho Dwhen ur kid is at home its alright at swigs where my kid can fall are u insane leaving a kid there my heart came out just seeing what she did
i love that he doesn’t realize the lemon oil one is real. I always put lemon oil on my rubber bands to get them out of my hair.
@X CALIBER it helps reduce oil production and helps with hair growth and strengthens the hair follicles. A lot of companies who produce hair care use it not only for the smell but the pros of using it in hair:)
@Ananya Guha actually it’s good for your hair. It helps reduce oil buildup on your hair and scalp and helps maintain a healthy scalp:) so it does more good than bad and it’s definitely a lot better than just ripping the rubber bands out and probably ripping out a bunch of hair with it😅
Baby oil will work just as well on the hair rubber bands that are like the ones used in Rainbow Looms. I use oil when the hair is too tangled to just snip them out.
Its not a good thing to put on ur head
How does this happen tho? I'm genuinely curious.
“Why don’t mommy put away her TikTok for a second and pay attention” The fact he had the audacity to say this makes him better than most parents and he does not even have a kid 😂😂😂😂
What kind of pediatrician doesn't just use the bandaids that come with designs on them already? lol
What kind of kid doesn't want a bandaid even without designs?
Hey Dr. Mike! I have dealt with chronic migraines my whole life, they started when I was 8 and I'm in my mid twenties now. I know the hair pulling for migraines seems counterintuitive, but it can help depending on the person! Light pulling can give a different sensation to focus on to distract from the migraine. When my medication doesn't work, having another sensory input to focus on is the only thing that can help combat the waves of pain. Definitely depends on the person, but it might help! 5 minute crafts was onto something, but it isn't nearly what they were describing.
Yes! I know I’m a moth late, but pulling my hair really does ease my headaches.
@Thomas Rocke yeah there's no real evidence, but hundreds seemed to have had felt better so I took her as a last hail mary since nothing else would hardly touch them and it worked thankfully ❤️.
Maybe more can somehow get relief through whatever means
@pinkdreamicecream I'm glad your grandmother's experienced relief, however from what I've seen online there's no real evidence that a daith piercing helps with migraines. I think she may be experiencing a placebo effect but if it helps her that's better than getting regular migraines so it's not a bad thing.
Just didn't want people unnecessarily getting a piercing that could get infected or hoping it would be the cure to their migraines. It's really more of an aesthetic choice than a medical one
My grandmother had dealt with migraines for over 50 years and I had heard good reviews about daith piercings.
Many sufferers had described the relief they'd felt, so I thought it'd be worth a shot.
I took her to get it pierced and she hasn't had one in three years.
Completely migraine free ❤️.
When something is continually pushing against the pressure point, it relieves pain 👍
You might have heard of this already, but just thought I'd share 😊
@AScarletLlama Absolutely fair. And it's more than a distraction too. We know very well how big of a role placebo and relaxation can play especially with chronic pain. So we're talking real effects here.
“It’s like a FIRE POKÉMON” - Dr MIke best sentence in 2022😂😂
Timestamp?
god i love this doctor. he's not only sarcastic and has a sense of humor, he ACTUALLY has a sense of what happens in these videos.
Tony Hardy ah yes, I know a doctor when I see one, I can smell the fake doctor from a mile away
@Kevin Conboy cope+mald+ratio+L
Tony Hardy ok Mr " I know him he lives next to me "
Well I am pretty sure doctors are supposed to know about what happens
Sometimes he has no clue, though.
I’ve got to defend parents on the removing rubber bands while your kid sleeps hack. Yes, sometimes moms wait till their kids are sleeping to deal with stuff. One time my son had gotten a bad sunburn on his nose (yes he should have re-applied sunblock during the day) but anyway, he would not let me put the aloe vera gel on it while he was awake. I waited until he was asleep.
Thats not what he was concerned about-
maybe it’s just me, but if my parents walked in on me to do something to me while i was sleeping, i’d be freaked out. just talk it out
The doctor doesn't want CHEMICALS in children's hairs
@Emma Johnson no worries friend 🙂
I couldn't ride a bike until I was 6 years old. My mom got lots of backpain trying to push me so we took an old hokey stick and taped it on. Worked like a charm.
I was 8 years old when i learned to ride a bike. it just heres a two wheeler and we will guide you on the take off and away you got ended up in my moms rose bush a couple of times and in many ditches
@a. Not weird at all. I was using training wheels until I was like...12? I don't remember. lol
@Alex Definitely depends on where you live. But I love that fun fact about your country!
@samdoesstuff Depends on where you live I'd imagine. Like, here in the Netherlands everyone has a bike and most kids learn how to ride a bike somewhere between 3 and 6 years old. But we cycle everywhere, so it makes a lot of sense. Like, I learned how to ride my bike before I learned how to swim.
@samdoesstuff YES FINALLY. I still don’t know how to ride a bike properly. I have to literally use my feet to glide then put my feet of the pedal.
As a matter of fact, a doctor actually once told me to sleep on a specific side to reduce acid reflux during a consultation.
It'll work unless you have sites inversus, or a hernia, or are on an incline, or ate too much before getting in bed, or have a smaller than average stomach, or have your esophagus shifted for any reason.
Meanwhile sleeping with your head raised accomplishes the same thing more consistently
The lemon one works. Taking those tiny rubber bands out rips your hair like crazy. Which sucks lol 😂
To be fair, when I have migraines, pulling and wiggling my hair helps a bit (doesn't relieve it, but makes it a bit more tolerable while the medicine kicks in). Its probably more cause I'm paying attention to the hair pulling more than the pain for the moment, but hey, I'll take it.
that is just a diversion treatment. sort of like telling a kid to look left when you stab them in the right arm with a needle.
My mom used to be an ER nurse and we both get migraines, she swears by this. It doesn’t 100% get rid of it but can definitely help! The most helpful thing for me is an imitrex, Tylenol, icepack on my head and heating pad on my neck
Agree with all of the above--I don't get migraines, but I definitely tug on my hair when I've got headaches, and if I've had it up in a ponytail or bun, taking it down sometimes helps. The fact that he immediately thought that one was ridiculous tells me he's never had long hair. :D
speaking as a person who has migraines often as well, like the really bad ones where you see auras and vomit, yk how people often like rub the area that hurts? so like i was rubbing my temples and it made it feel worse but i tried rubbing the pressure points on the back of my head that are above my hairline and it helped, but it also helped when i took my hair down cause it like, relieved the pressure? im not saying this is foolproof or scientific in any way, its just what i experienced and what works for me sometimes, although taking ibuprofen helps the best for me.
Pulling on my hair has actually helped my migraines too
The first bandaid one:
Offering a child a choice often gives them a feeling of control over the scary situation they're facing, and they're more likely to comply.
@sadlittlesnail you can still see the design through the wrapper
@Nachotaur i mean you could apply the same principle with designed bandaids- had them all the time growing up
That applies to a lot of things with kiddos. It really does help if they feel heard and included in stuff ❤
My kids and grandkids go through bandaids like they are candy. They want one for EVERY scratch. The funniest time though was when my husband, a Lt. Col in the army had to go to work with a Ninja Turtle bandaid on his finger, because that is all we had at the time!
Never seen a kid refuse a bandaid. Instead they want it for the most ridiculous of "injuries" 😂
Fun fact. Citric acid does actually break down rubber such as balloons and rubber bands
@Eva Jaden Guess he wasn't saying to mike and saying to other people who didn't knew
Cool
He could know that already because of 3 years of med school and 5 years practice.
I have trichotillomania and honestly brushing my hair is an alternative that I use to stop myself from pulling, so while these 5 minute craft things drive me nuts because they are all kind of crazy, that one in particular is at least stemming from something realistic. But yeah, psychology appointments every other week and supervised prescriptions have helped too lol.
So I legit think the heartburn hack works. I just know that if I lay on my left side I don’t have heartburn. If I lay on my right side, I get heartburn pain within 3-5 minutes.
@Yeasstt well the idea is to relieve the pain so you can go to sleep not to fix the problem
@Marcos Sintes yes, but Dr. Mike never said it didn't work, just that there are better ways to treat heartburn such as antacids or sleeping with your head raised.
Sleeping with your head raised works for the same reason as sleeping on your left side, but it also works for people with hernias or situs inversus as well as other conditions that could deform the stomach or shift the position of the esophagus
@Yeasstt that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Treating the symptoms is not bad. Sure you should go to the doctor if you have frequent stomach issues, but if you have them just occasionally after eating a whole cheese pizza this method works pretty well, much better than the alternative which is usually nothing. Antacids work well, too, but in my opinion the relief doesn't last long, so probably also not a full night.
@Marcos Sintes I treats the symptoms, not the cause. Plus you might roll onto your other side in your sleep, which renders it pointless
Yes, it actually works and I thought it was common medical knowledge. I don't know how Dr. Mike doesn't know, being a family doctor.
The sleeping on the left side thing...that's actually something one of my doctors recommended when I was a kid, along with the bed raising and the not eating too close to bedtime. 😅 If I sleep on my right side or flat on my back for too long, though, I'll wake up choking on reflux, and that's basically the end of any hope for a good night's sleep.
@Yeasstt I keep a bunch of pillows on my bed just to keep me inclined now that I'm an adult, but when I was a kid, I had to either sleep on my left side or wake up every other night choking on reflux and/or puking my guts up.
It is helpful, but doesn't always work. There could be issues like sites inversus or a hernia which would place the esophagus farther to the left, meaning you'd have to sleep on your right side instead. Plus if you sleep on any sort of negative incline it won't work as well. Sleeping on an incline (head raised) will keep your gastric juices at the bottom of your stomach instead of the side, which serves the same purpose but is more consistent
It's also something I learned in nursing school about GERD.
it's the same reason why people lay on their left side during colonoscopies
My GI recommended it for GERD i have my bed raised and sleep on my left
Milk and honey are actually great skin treatments! I've made homemade masks before, using plain oatmeal, milk, and honey. It really balanced and moisturized my dry winter skin.
Also the hair-combing thing was just for occasional anxiety, not the actual disorder.
"Why are they trying to KILL CHILDREN!?" That one finally broke me down.
same
The dark, repressed wishes of these life-hackers are beginning to show...
Some people should not be allowed to raise children.
"They turned out fine!" They will say, conveniently many years before the murders start.
Same
@brenda_kermit~16 nice profile picture!
Ha
man I was a complete masochist when it came to band aids, I didn't care how much it would hurt as long as it was the fabric band-aids. Just the idea of slowly ripping it off was so satisfying.
I just wanna say the editing and (im assuming the same person) the little adlibs from the camera man are so perfect and absolutely hilarious it really completes these videos 🙏
Alright I gotta say that we have to appreciate the editing you guys do, its just hilarious 😂
That was absolutely hilarious and a great way to end my day. I love your laugh Doctor Mike and your nephew’s response to it is a wet or dry campus. 😂😂
I love your reactions.. could watch you all day... 😂
If/when Dr. Mike ever has a daughter or a niece, he will learn very quickly that you NEVER use rubber bands on hair. It will knot the hair and they ARE impossible to get out without a lot of ripping, pulling and screaming.
Imagine this mixed race girl with thick curly hair has pe at school they decide my hair needs to be tied up I don't have a hair bobble so they use a rubber band. Took them ages I mean ages to get the thing out my hair.
Yeah. The girl is sleeping. It's not obvious to Dr Mike, but the trouble is that mom doesn't want to hurt her child or wake her up, both of which would happen if she tried to take then off her while she sleeps. My fix would actually be to leave them in and deal with it later.
The lemon essential oil would be extracted from the skin/peel of the lemon, not the juice, it's mostly going to be limonene that breaks down the rubber.
i did that twice
i managed to get it out but im definitely asking my mom to buy me hairbands instead of rubber bands XD
They're perfect for braids though.
The indigestion one where you switch sides is actually true for myself. I get it bad sometimes during the night and laying on my left side fixes it while right side makes it worse or continues it.
Agreed. Dr Mike didn't pay much attention to the graphic of the position of the stomach when laying on your right then on your left.
Yes this really works. As a person who has reflux and stomach acidity eruptions, this is really helpful.
@murderoustendencies 🙄 while indigestion is not the same medical condition as acid reflux, many people.use the terms interchangeably (erroneously, but it is still a thing). For me, laying on my left side relieves symptoms of acid reflux.
Yeah but the video was about acid reflux!
Same. Came here to same this. 👍
To keep blisters from forming, I always keep some duct tape while hiking. Just apply a little to any "warm spots" on your feet to keep blisters from forming!
If you feel overly stressed before something and you have no other option to healthy cope with anxiety (you won’t go to the therapist 5 minutes before a meeting XD) Just find a seat where you can sit comfortably and focus on your breath, take slow but deep breaths, inhale using nose, exhale with your mouth. This helped me a lot.
the hair brushing one kinda works cuz when I'm stressed out, I just brush my hail and it distracts me from why I'm anxious and it makes me feel pretty, and yes, I do bring my hairbrush everywhere I go cuz my hair gets knotted easily.
As a former paramedic I am gratified to know that actual doctors yell just as much about choking hazards in videos as I do.
@Paula B 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ok
That "high end swing" is something I see a lot in Sweden, I always thought of them as "multi child swings", because they can fit up to four small kids.
We have them in Australia, too!
This was very educational and entertaining. Thank you Dr. Mike!
THe one with the mum & the kid on the swing. I almost hit a kid with my wheelchair because a mum was paying more attention to her phone instead of her kid. To avoid it ting the kid I had to crash my wheelchair abusing pain to myself & damage to my wheelchair. The mum fended her kids actions & refused to help me. Luckily a nice man was near by & came run ING to help me. After he told me what he saw & he had zero sympathy for the mum. Parents out there, parent your kids.
Sorry to hear man! Some people suck at parenting
Hi Doc Mike! the sleeping on the left side actually helped me A LOT during the time I had severe heart burn and even helped my friends who had heart burn from stress, it does actually work.
and all the advice you gave are very valid, yes.
Even though I tell my mom not to use q tips in your ears she still uses them when she cleans my ears
The one with the band-aid hearts isn't so much about making the band-aid pretty, but about giving the child several _options_ to choose from, which makes them feel some control over the situation. It's a tried and true way of getting obstinate kids to cooperate. It works with clothes, food, chores, etc.
@Sam Daggett That sounds like it could cause an infection.
when I was that age and got a cut I would quite literally use tape. oh wait I still do
@hamjudo lol. But that's the point, you're giving the child a reason to cooperate (some kids, or at some ages, are non-compliant). So, you can say, "do you want to hold my right hand or my left hand?" But we both know, Daddy is holding his kid's hand, mandatory.
I completely agree that giving the kid a choice makes most issues easier. Plus, kids are quite difficult to deal with anyway so you might as well make it easier with toys and treats,, ect. ❣️❣️ Who doesn't love a cute baby doll
We're about to cross the street. Do you want to hold Daddy's hand or have Daddy hold your hand?
I just wanted to say that it could be advisable to set up the band aids like that. When you have all the different designs, it makes the kid stop thinking about "I don't want one" But it intrigues them to think "Which one should I pick" instead
I literally had the same thought with the combing and anxiety. DO NOT ever create a new habit that might stress you out. I somehow created the OCD thing were I need to look if the oven is turned off and all lights are turned off for at least 7 times before I can leave the house.. and I even come back for second time to check the lights and the door again. This is absolutely NOT how to deal with anxiety.. it acutally produces only more unnecessary anxiety I never had before. 😅 Working on it, but it's honestly very hard to get rid of this behavior.
Better way to deal with stressful situations like work meetings is to integrate a routine, create a healthy sleeping shedule and try to not use your phone in the evening, eat well, speak to a person you trust 100% or take a little walk right before the meeting. Find things you actually enjoy and integrate them into your day more often, learn to notice triggers and situations that let anxiety spike. Sport is also a good stress relief. That's what I learned for me, what works for me. I'm not a professional.
I don’t laugh while watching KZclip but when I watch Doctor Mike I can never stop laughing 😂
My dad taught me this: when you get something in your eye just kinda find a way to make tears, works everytime 👌
SMART
the headache thing is so relatable whenever i have a migraine i get the urge to pull on my head but this just makes things worse lol momentary relief
I would love to see some kind of collab between Dr. Mike and Ann Reardon of "How to Cook That" (probably virtual, as she lives in Australia), as she does a lot of videos debunking hacks, especially from content farm sites like 5-Minute Crafts. You could even make it more "fun" by having Ann try to figure out what exactly is wrong on the medical hacks, and Dr. Mike try to figure out what's wrong with the baking/cooking hacks. She recently had KZclip take down her video warning people about the dangers of fractal wood burning, while leaving up the actual fractal wood burning videos she was warning about, so she could use a boost in viewership that could come from such a collab.
I'm really happy to see her being recommended. That fractal wood burning episode was perhaps the most instantly fatal thing she's debunked but there's been several dangerous "hacks"
Yep. Ann is terrific. Her debunks are legendary, but also she's shown how stupid, illogical, dangerous or even fatal some "hacks" are
@Jade Green Glasses how?
I would absolutely /love/ to see this collab happening...
Like, /seriously/.
Please, Dr. Mike....?
💙💜💗💕❤
GET MIKE TO SEE THIS
This was by far the BEST video I have seen all day. His reactions and comments are spot on. Made me giggle too. Great job Dr. Mike, you're the best
For the skin, the lemon concoctions are overkill, but lemon juice alone actually works for acne, it was a huge help for me while I didn't have a dermatologist recommend a facial cream, basically the lemon juice, all it does is dry your skin
“look at that wood. nice wood.”
he sounded so proud of the wood it was too cute 😭
I had some really unhealthy OCD coping mechanisms in high school. Turns out I still do. The anxiety is still a thing, just not around basic activities or social interactions.
I clacked my canines against one another. Now both are flat instead of sharp on the right side of my jaw.
I also chew on my lower lip. It must look a state to other people because I make my lip bleed all the time.
The dark armpits hack is really famous in India... And it really worked for me..!! Not only armpits but also u can apply it on any dark area.. !!
7:49 *I also prefer my water to be sour, milky, and oily*
Project X Omg.... I would never drink this... I love water a 1000% more. Uff.
Okay so you're right about everything, except for one thing. I can't tell you the reason why it works, but pulling hair absolutely helps with tension headaches, migraines, sometimes sinus pressure headaches, and I found it to be helpful for two other kinds of headaches, as well. Plus sometimes seizure auras. Not always but a decent amount of the time. I'd love to know the scientific mechanism behind that, but it really does work. Also, if you go very gently, and you just pull a baby's earlobes diagonally downward (so gently that your fingers will slip off of the earlobes easily), You can help a baby with changing elevation pain, and this Is a trick I've used that has helped many a baby on an airplane. I learned it when I had a new baby.
I live in the uk and I found it a lil funny when dr Mike was complimenting the swing because every decent park I’ve went to has one ( even some rlly bad parks have them ) . Ty for reading and have a good day !
Same in Ireland. I guess they don't have swings for physically challenged kids in America (at least New York/New Jersey anyway)
Same
>"Why don't mommy put away her tiktok"
top 10 questions scientists and doctors can't answer
actually science can
lol
Knowing how worked up Dr. Mike gets when he sees q-tips being put in ears, he'll probably freak out when I say I once stuck an allen key into my ear. Basically, I was wearing earplugs and when I went to pull the earplug out of my ear, it ripped in half leaving half of it stuck in my ear canal. My solution was to stick an allen key into my ear to fish the earplug out. Yes I did it carefully lmao
You’ve got amazing humour it actually makes me laugh!!
As a person who suffers from violent migraines, the pulling of the hair actually gives temporary relief. Grab it by the scalp and apply pressure. I learned that from my father who also suffers fr migraines , Apparently an old trick to use
I have chronic migraines as well and I've tried to pulling the hair trick but it only works temporarily unfortunately. I don't know if I'm distracted by it and I'm not paying attention to the pain or if it actually works.
A really good trick to help relieve migraines (as someone who suffered from them 6-8 times a month for years), if you put your feet in warm, almost hot water, and then put an ice pack on the back of your neck and then curl up with your legs to your chest, this helps immensely. Also, I would get nausea along with it, and a Dramamine worked wonders.
Also peppermint essential oil in your diffuser helps with migraines too.
Pressing up into the insides of your eyebrows with your fingertips along the brow bone also helps - I suspect it's because the skin tugs on the internal sinuses just a bit. Many migraine symptoms seem to be related to sensitivity or irritation of the trigeminal nerve which runs through there. Unfortunately it's a brief effect, like the hair pulling, but if you hurt like that you take anything you can get.
@Matilda right, plus pharmaceutical medication should be avoided if possible. It is horrible for your liver and body and most pharmaceutical medications have horrible side effects many which include death. Whether rare or not, it's not good for your liver at all. Even OTC medication will mess up your liver. Everyone is so gung ho about getting prescribed medications without realizing they do damage to your body just like illegal drugs and alcohol. You want to avoid medications if possible, and any doctor not telling you that is not protecting your health. Of course medication is needed and helpful, but everyone just says, oh get medication for you doctor for this and that without trying remedies that are non invasive and may actually help.
As a person who temporarly deafened myself because of putting qtips in my ear, I'm so happy you got angry at what you thought was the recommendation of putting qtips in your ear as a way of removing wax.
You never realize how good auditory depth perception is until its gone, and you learn to cherish it if it comes back
I almost died laughing from his reaction to seeing the essential oil come out 😂.
7:08 AS SOON AS I SAW THE WORDS ‘essential oil’ I KNEW DR MIKE WOULD BE ANGRY ‘oh mom doesn’t know how to take off a hair tie… *sees lemon essential oil* 😡🤬 what is she gonna do with that essential oil 😡🤬’ the editing in dr mike’s videos are hilarious
The heartburn one seriously works.
I get it alot. and it can literally come on in seconds if I roll onto my right side. And disappear within minutes of rolling back onto my left
lemon essential oil is actually a really good hack to dissolve hair ties. they're super hard to take off and painful as well so it's an easy fix
I actually have one of those suction cups. Many people in my family are allergic to bees and it does work to remove bee stingers. Also great for if a venomous animal bites you. That being said if it's highly venomous... not helpful! Go to the doctor!
@SilvaDreams I was surprised Mike didn't comment on all the tissue damage that kind of suction can do.
Yeeeeaaaahhh.. No. Using one of those things might make removing the stinger easier but so will a pair of tweezers (or better yet use a knife or card to scrape it out) and they are the last thing you should use for anything venomous because the suction will simply cause more veins to burst allowing for more venom to enter the blood stream.
@NewBurger yes I am :)
@Sonic Cookie Once the venom has entered the bloodstream, it can’t be sucked out. It’s impossible to suck venom out once it’s been absorbed, so you’d basically need to do it immediately and even then it won’t do much.
Dr Mike is a good parent I have never seen anyone so funny 😂
Amazing, we are thinking this at this point! Thank you Doctor Mike for being such an amazing inspiration to all off us! Even if its just Reacting to things you still try and make an Explanation! Keep up the amazing work!
That hair combing one makes me laugh.. Since I was a kid, I ended up with an OCD habit of grabbing a chunk of hair and rubbing it across my thumb. I'm in my mid 30s and still to this day can't get through my day without doing it at bunch.
I like how at 5:00 the second lady DOESN'T HESITATE on dropping the fruit on the ground.
She could've just put a bit of water on the first one's hand and wash the eyes with care, it works better.
It reminds me of those movies where a veteran/war hardened lady immediately tears their dress bottom off to make a makeshift rag for someone else (even if it's a small cut, just for the fun destroy a 100$ dress)
actually this leaning to the side worked one for me when i had really bad stomach ache... no clue why, but somehow switching side from time to time gave relief
Dr Mike: Those plastic rubber bands in the hair tug at fine hairs and really hurt coming out. Any kind of oil (hair oil is fine rather than essential oil) helps disintegrate the rubber bands. This is a good hack, we been doing it for forever.
About the lemon essential oil one: citrus essential oils contain limonene which dissolves rubbers and grease pretty well (was used to clean engines and bikes a while back). That’s why it pops the rubber bands. If you want to witness it you can peel an orange close to an inflated balloon it will pop if any of the oil gets in contact with the rubber!
It’s pretty toxic and corrosive in large quantities or if it’s pure enough, like most essential oils though.
@Sofihmm
That's probably the better hack since those oils are already used in hair
@Sofi AAAAALL OILS DO
So I'm pretty sure that olive and coconut oil don't fall into the category of citrus essential oils but they break rubber bands too, I put both of these oils in my hair from time to time in braids and I once secured them with rubber bands instead of hair ties and they wouldn't stop breaking until I realized it was the oil in my hair
I mean u can also use a seem ripper & it’s easier to snap the bands
Pretty fire hack actually
3:10 I love those swings. Those are the ones where if you get two or three people you can spin it so fast that its impossible to not get thrown off. They're like soft tire swings
Road to 10M Dr. Mike!!! More power to your channel and we will push it to 10 this month!!
3:07 actually I find this quite regular in the Netherlands! My dad used to push me on them- I still swing on them to this day!
Semi-common in Finland but I remember those been like the coolest thing ever for an elementary schooler.
@Llama-MC yep
Feels like every playground has one
Same here in germany!
Same here in Latvia!
Same here in Belgium!!
You know how much a GREAT father Dr Mike would be.
Or there is liquid bandage and it comes with a brush and you can put it on any minor scars. It works very well!
Hi Dr. Mike. I’m a teacher from Toronto, Canada. Would you ever consider doing a series on the American Sex Education curriculum across states? It seems like it varies so much and could be a great commentary coming from a doctor or multiple doctors and teachers who work in different states. Great video!
Mama Doctor Jones is the one who usually does those types of videos as she is an OBGYN and a parent
@Downhomesunset yes they had done so. I was referring to doing a video regarding sex Ed in the US.
@westzed23 they did a little bit ago!
@Iza Warszawska they did one a while back. But they should do one about the problems in the US sex education system.
@Jay Kay to be honest I dont remember much of my Sex Ed classes (in the UK) .. I do hope they are informative these days. I remember being separated girls v boys in year 6 to talk about puberty. It wasnt particularly informative, however there were only 4 girls in my class, and two of them lit up like beetroot whenever anything bodily came up, so I feel that may have hindered the experience.
It would be fascinating if there were to be videos on every state and their guidelines vs. what several schools actually teach.. to perhaps see the huge difference between each state, and also the consistency between guidance and the real thing.
Just for those who didn't know, putting a bandaid on your neck could be an extremely bad idea as it can have to potential to peel or rip off the skin on your neck.
Sometimes it could be worse than others, depending on what brand you use
@Stezika15 I'm talking from experience
I have a scar on my neck from when I ripped off skin on my neck with a bandaid.
It is possible, maybe not very, but possible
it sound like its something possible but our skin stretch,move and is far stronger than you think thus the idea that you can rip it off sound less than possible
unless you got a skin condition, than its very certainly something to think about
To be fair, the "laying on the other side" thing in bed DOES relieve indigestion. I control my heartburn with diet, but occassionally still have burning at night. Turning over helps.
When I was pregnant, rolling to the other side actually helped me mitigate my heartburn 🙃
Dr mike has a sense of humor and knows so much about being a good dr and even a parent , also why did the mom leave the water on for the soap thing？
Actually, getting the kid to pick the bandaid can be a life hack. If you need your kid to do something, telling "you have to do this" might end up with fighting, but giving them two seemingly different options that eventually lead to the same desired outcome will make the child psychologically think they made the choice and they will feel appreciated and feel happier about it. Even if it's just to pick whether they want a "grownup" bandaid or a Batman bandaid.
As someone who has GERD and Gastroparesis and has spent many hours with my gastroenterologist finding ways to alleviate symptoms, I have to say that laying on the left side vs the right side does make a big difference if symptoms are flaring up. I know it won’t cure heartburn but there is truth to that one.
True, and I have had doctors advise lying on my left side among other things multiple times. It’s a shame he doesn’t realize he could help his patients with such a simple lifestyle change.
@Giulio17 well you aren't looking very hard. I've read at least 4 different ones with 20+ and 2 with 50+ participants
And across the total studies (between the US and Europe etc) it is a total of 300+ people taking the studies that I have read alone
That is apparently enough scientific rigour for multiple Drs to recommend it as a treatment plan to *help* manage a common issue
@YetAnotherVegan I know that from an anatomical point of view it makes sense, but I'm not able to find any statistically relevant studies proving the theory behind your thought
@Cat Hep I already checked all of them, they're not relevant sadly. At least the one I found. They were performed on a really small sample size (about 10 patients). They are not statistically relevant
@Giulio17 thanks for chiming in! There actually have been relevant studies done on left side vs right side sleeping and the alleviation of GER symptoms, including those related to pregnancy.
The shape of the stomach and the relative position of the esophageal opening to the stomach actually prove a physical relationship to how (given anatomic normativity) this would work.
The esophageal opening on the stomach is offset from the center. Offset to the right, by a significant amount actually.
Because of this non-central entrance, the stomach is more prone to acid, food, and beverage leaks when lying on the right side versus the left side.
Think tilting a beverage can to where the opening is down near your mouth.
Pretty easy to get the liquid out in that position, yeah?
Contrarily, sleeping on your left side brings the larger side of your stomach to the lower position and puts the esophageal opening towards the top.
Like tilting that same beverage can so that the opening is up at your nose instead of by your mouth. Not so easy to get at it now, right?
Not impossible, just not easy.
It’s anatomically supported, as well as supported by proper medical studies (and of course anecdotal evidence).
It’s not a cure, any more than eating a tums is a cure, but it certainly helps. Especially if you go to bed on a **mostly** empty stomach so there’s not so much splashing around and needing all that acid for digestion.
tumeric actually lightens your skin but doesnt heal it(also i love the way mike said about the bacon "maybe you could cook it maybe you could eat it)
Oh my god lmao... I actually used to wet those small bandages until it was comfortable enough to take them off, really good lifehack at 6:06. I just can say I love it but it's pretty effective to evade most of the pain
I just LOVE the sarcasm in these videos! That's the main reason I watch these! 😂😂😂
The way she add petals on her face expecting her skin to not be dry is hilarious like I would have done that if that was the solution😂
With the rubber heand bands you dont need to use any fancy oil, I think the oil in the peel of a lemon or orange should work too
You and Ann Riordan from How To Cook That should collab on debunking 5 minute crafts and other dangerous KZclip hacks! Love your videos, thank you for educating people!
I don't agree. he is judging a lot of actual real hacks which are used in many countries - like the rope on the swing and the stick on the toy car. they work and have been used for generations where I come from - to alleviate back pain.
@TwoJays food theory situation?
@TwoJays food theory?
idk that whole food theory situation left a bad taste in my mouth about her
I can not express how much I support this.
I actually learned something today, thanks for the tips, doc!
Hey Mike I have a question. As a person who normally uses a-tips to clean my ears I have heard and by your reaction I know I shouldn't do that but most of the things that are recommended to clean my ears are a liquid, you see I can't have any type of liquid in my ears because it causes a lot of pain in my ears after a few minutes to hours and the pain lasts more that a week. So I don't know how to properly clean my ears if that's the case, do you have any recommendations for me?
The oil thing on hair bands can actually work depending on the kind of oil cuz some oils can eat through latex. which, for lack of a better example, is why you shouldn’t use oil based lube and latex condoms. (Of so I have been taught) lol
Honestly during pregnancy the heartburn trick works. When I turn to the other side I burp & it definitely soothes my stomach A LOT more 😮💨💯
The lemon oil works on the thin elastics because it's acidic, also rubbing alchohol works. I used to do it when they got stuck in my hair and I didn't want to cut it out.
The way Sam questioned how to cope with anxiety shows that therapy isn't the first thing people think of when dealing with something like that. As a psychology mayor student it really stood out to me. Not saying Sam is ignorant or anything, just stating the importance of therapy in people's everyday life. Great work there Mike❤️
मैं आपसे पूरी तरह सहमत हूं
@Pail Vengence I took ut the way you did tbh
I think he was asking Mike in an interview sort of way, in case a viewer had the question in mind
@Wolfy Therapists are cheap, comparatively, running in the 50$/per 30 minute session range.
but a licensed therapist cant write prescription, and thanks to certain sections of of the Affordable Care Act, mental health professionals are now required to be able to write prescriptions.
Which means a Psychiatrist, or a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
Which means someone with around 40k in student loan debt, who spends roughly the cost of a small apartments rent for their licenses and certifications and whatnot...
He was being sarcastic but most therapy is expensive… hard to find a good therapist that’s cheap
I remember as a child chewing antibiotics (I think I had strep). My only other experience with any sort of "pill" were chewable vitamins and no one told me I had to swallow the meds whole....
at this point it doesnt matter if I've finished all of his videos cuz im gonna go back and rewatch them all lol
Fun fact: you can clean your ears with q-tips you just have to be very very careful (it’s Bette to do it after having a shower/bath because the water loosens the wax.)