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, …
America has always had a love affair with celebrating freedom through controlled explosions. Today, we mostly worry about fireworks causing burns or sending someone to the emergency room. Some people will lose fingers, cuz they just don’t listen or they’re too drunk to listen. But around the turn of the 20th century, doctors feared something …
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 …
And then there was…the Pop Rocks Myth. In the late 1970s, parents across America became convinced that mixing Pop Rocks candy and soda could make a child’s stomach explode. The rumor became so widespread that it even claimed “Little Mikey,” the boy from the popular Life cereal commercials, had died after eating Pop Rocks and …
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 …
