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With clock ticking, doctors, pharmacists come to the rescue after 1-year-old eats raccoon feces
CBC News ^ | June 18, 2021 | Hannah Kost

Posted on 06/19/2021 11:23:35 AM PDT by billorites

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To: 43north

I hate the health care system here.

When my daughter was 18 months old, we visited my MIL in a remote area of Quebec. My girl got yet another ear infection (she had so many that she had to have surgery).

It was Christmas so I had to take her to the hospital. A 40 minute drive.

Long story short, we got there at 10 AM. We waited ... and waited. Finally around 6 PM, I realized that no one had been called to see the doctor in two or three hours.

I went up to the receptionist and said, in my crappy French, “What’s going on?”

She said that the doctors were eating dinner. I said, “Are you telling me that in this hospital there’s not ONE doctor who could see people now?” My crying daughter probably got her attention.

I turned to the crowd in the waiting room and said, “Are you going to put up with this crap?”

My daughter was seen within 15 minutes and others were called too.

That was my first experience with socialized medicine. Suffice it to say that I am not a fan.


61 posted on 06/19/2021 2:00:02 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: billorites
The family doctor and the province's Poison & Drug Information Service both advised the parents to wait and see if their son developed symptoms of infection.

Sounds like SOP for COVID. "Yes, you are positive, but there's nothing we can do for you. Go home and wait. If you have trouble breathing, go to the morgue."

Jon Martin, the boy's father, said "He's still doing all the wonderful things that the toddler is supposed to do. You can't really ask for much more."

I'd ask for a health care system that didn't throw up so many horrific roadblocks to getting the treatment your son needs.

62 posted on 06/19/2021 2:04:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: Salamander

I’m guessing you are in the USA and not Canada. The family was all set to drive to Montana from Lethbridge, AB to get the medicine.


63 posted on 06/19/2021 2:05:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Moral of the story: Take you kids to the States to visit the vet.


64 posted on 06/19/2021 2:11:11 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Pontiac

Oh, well, heaven forfend there be “legal repercussions”.

Better for a person to die.

/we live in crazy world


65 posted on 06/19/2021 2:14:17 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This is madness.

Yes I’m in the US.

/maybe I should pop off to Tractor Supply and get a bottle of it, just in case.


66 posted on 06/19/2021 2:17:22 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander

You could probably hold off until you see an army of raccoons defecating your your garden.


67 posted on 06/19/2021 2:24:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: farming pharmer

They aren’t called “trash pandas” for nothing.


68 posted on 06/19/2021 2:29:19 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I can hold off even longer if I can somehow resist eating their crap.

:D


69 posted on 06/19/2021 2:56:15 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: billorites

The medical community is beyond negligent in telling the parents to wait and see if their son becomes sick.

They have done the same thing with COVID.

Don’t come in until you are close to dying and irreparably damaged.

And then they wonder why nobody trusts them.


70 posted on 06/19/2021 3:29:38 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: billorites
There is so much misinformation here that needs clarification. The raccoon roundworm, Baylisascarisis procyonis, is a giant roundworm that migrates through the gut and has a propensity to end up in sensitive areas of the body of humans. There was a serious outbreak of this parasite in children in a daycare that were playing in a sandbox where raccoons had defecated previously and the eggs were viable. These raccoon roundworms make the human roundworm, Ascarisis lumbricoides, look like midgets. Fenbendazole is effective against it as well as pyrantel pomoate dewormers. If the parasite is in the migratory mode it may take several treatments to catch it in an area of the victim where the chemical can kill it. Ivermectin has a somewhat variable effectiveness against the parasite. Piperazine citrate used to be effective against the parasite but over the years it has become ineffective. The tapeworms or Hydadid cysts are a completely different family of parasites, Cestoda, instead of nematoda as are the roundworms.

I was privy to see Nazi films of the Jews they infected with the human roundworms and dissected the Jewish victims alive to recover the roundworms...pretty gruesome. The films were property of the US military. I also helped screen the Vietnamese refugees for parasites the Summer of 1975 and found most of them infected with Ancylostoma and Ascarisis as well as many Cestodes.

Hookworms can invade subcutaneously and cause a dermatitis but the roundworms have to be ingested. Intestinal hookworms have to be ingested also.

71 posted on 06/19/2021 3:52:46 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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FWIW albendazole is effective against Giardia and many mucoflagellates as well as nematodes but has a possible side effect of bone marrow suppression causing the patient to develop anemia even after just one treatment.
72 posted on 06/19/2021 3:55:45 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Well, it certainly is an interesting and well-rounded life that you describe.


73 posted on 06/19/2021 3:59:35 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Well, it certainly is an interesting and well-rounded life that you describe.

"If the parasite is in the migratory mode it may take several treatments to catch it in an area of the victim where the chemical can kill it. "

"Sorry honey, not tonight. The worms are on the prowl."

74 posted on 06/19/2021 4:04:31 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites
A southern Alberta couple who realized their infant had eaten raccoon feces...

At least he didn't snort 'em (with a side of parmo), like Hunter Biden - that'll give you brain worms, every time...

75 posted on 06/19/2021 5:22:26 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: billorites

Easy, just find Athelas,or Kingsfoil in the common tongue. It is practically laying about everywhere.


76 posted on 06/19/2021 5:30:21 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: billorites

( Sung to the tune of “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”

“They asked me how I knew
Racoon feces was blue
I just simply said
BS you’ve been fed
Racoon feces is red.”


77 posted on 06/19/2021 5:41:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Salamander

Canada (and the US) have lurched toward Leftist totalitarianism in the past twenty years.

The trend is accelerating.


78 posted on 06/20/2021 2:48:40 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: billorites

Some time ago, I searched for data.

Researchers collected dead raccoons up and down the 101 in the Central CA area.

95% of them were infected.

They also make ‘latrine’ sites. Sometimes in the attics of houses.

Not so cute anymore.


79 posted on 06/20/2021 8:26:41 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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