Posted on 04/07/2021 6:37:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In a seemingly paradoxical study, US researchers found that redheads have a preternaturally high pain tolerance — wait for it — due to a mechanism that ups their susceptibility to sunburns.
“These findings describe the mechanistic basis behind earlier evidence suggesting varied pain thresholds in different pigmentation backgrounds,” said Dr. David Fisher of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Massachusetts. He led the fiery study published in the journal Science Advances.
The research found that the cells that determine skin color — called melanocytes — play a large role in deciding how people experience pain.
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And they make up for it by inflicting more pain on males.
And the red-headed men?
They also have a higher tolerance to drugs.
Hmmm Could explain why I close my cuts with a stapler. And here all this time I thought it was because we had no souls!
They need a higher quantity of anasthaesia to achieve the same effect during surgery.
The men are sane. It’s the red head women who inflict the pain. But the trade off is that it’s VERY worth it.
Hot Crazy Matrix Danger Zone: Redheads, Strippers, Girls named Tiffany, Hairdressers...
So sexist.
Sorry, everyone knows redheads are often mean bullies. That means boys are just as bad if not worse. In fact I think of males more than I do females, though I have known some of those too.
And many more allergies.
Especially to bee stings.
You forgot bartenders.
Because you need a soul to feel pain.
Harsh.
They are generally innocent
Bullcrap. We feel more pain.
I have a violent reaction to wasp stings.
I will hunt down that wasp and killed it.
I will find it's nest and kill it and all it's offspring.
I will will hunt down it's kin and kill them at their nest.
Sexist? Is that you Lenin?
Sorry I don’t live in Star Trek imaginary world where male and female are both the same and wear identical uniforms.
Because guys buy them more drinks quicker?
This sounds like a path to Dr. Mengele thinking.
I can answer this one as I have red hair (well, that which I have left that hasn't turned silver yet anyway ...)
YES, we have a very high tolerance to pain. Let me give you an example: I broke my right wrist clean off my arm. It was hanging down, the bone broke completely. I broke it during a horrible fall in the middle of the night.
Knowing I had about three minutes before I'd lose feeling and movement in it as swelling set in, I managed to get myself dressed, got in my car, started it (with my right hand) and drove myself to the hospital - 15 minutes away.
I walked into the ER and up to the triage nurse who looked at me, saw my right hand and asked if I needed a wheelchair. I declined.
I was directed towards a triage room, examined, and then my right arm was hung by three fingers on my right hand to get it to straighten out before they'd soft cast it and tell me I needed to see an orthopedic surgeon to get it plated and screwed back together.
They had my arm hanging for 4 hours. No painkillers, no meds, nothing. They kept asking and I kept refusing. Honestly didn't feel like I needed them. When they were done I was discharged and drove myself home.
Saw the orthopedic surgeon later that day and was in surgery a week later where I received two titanium plates and 12 titanium screws to put my wrist back in place. After surgery no morphine, no painkillers, nothing. Didn't think I needed them. Was in Physical Therapy 10 days after the surgery and it took a year to get my fingers working properly again and my wrist flexibility back. I have a hell of a pair of scars showing where my right wrist was put back together.
Then there have been four major lower back surgeries that I've had in the past 25 years which I never took painkillers after, getting my left elbow put back together after shattering it during a fall on ice, two knee surgeries and a hip surgery that I never took painkillers for, but that's for another time.
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