Blooming Wellness
Dr. Eek's Health & Wellness Blog
One of the strangest chapters in medical history involves a treatment that sounds completely backwards today. People once smoked cigarettes to relieve asthma symptoms. View this post on Instagram A post shared by EeKs (@doctoreeks) Before modern rescue inhalers, “asthma cigarettes” were sold in pharmacies and prescribed by physicians. They weren’t ordinary tobacco cigarettes. Instead, …
In the late 1800s, cocaine wasn’t just legal, it was found in a variety of medicines. One of the more surprising examples was cocaine toothache drops, which were sold over the counter to relieve dental pain. Watch my reel here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by EeKs (@doctoreeks) The reason they worked …
Public Health is Weird… View this post on Instagram A post shared by EeKs (@doctoreeks) If you think debates over masks are something new, history has other ideas. A long time ago, before COVID, there was a lot of fighting over the 1918 flu pandemics masks. During the 1918 pandemic, several U.S. cities required people …
For decades, smoking on airplanes was completely normal. Passengers lit cigarettes during flights. Ashtrays were built into armrests. Flight attendants worked entire shifts surrounded by secondhand smoke. And perhaps most bizarrely, airlines often designated separate “smoking” and “non-smoking” sections—as if tobacco smoke politely stopped at Row 18 and refused to travel any farther. Welcome to …
