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Bleach Is Toxic, but Plenty of Americans Are Still Drinking It
- Eleison23 4y ago[dead]
- papandada 4y agoGoogle's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Nwr_jpuSQxwJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/drinking-bleach-is-deadly-why-are-some-americans-still-consuming-mms%3Fsrnd%3Dhealth&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Nwr_jp...
- dmonitor 4y ago> In 2020, 4% of Americans reported drinking or gargling diluted bleach, according to a CDC poll conducted of about 500 online participants. which is more likely: - 1/25 people are knowingly, willingly drinking bleach - 1/25 people answering online polls are trolls
- lexapro 4y agoEspecially since drinking bleach is a somewhat common meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bleach-drinking https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bleach-drinking
- skyyler 4y agoI hate to bring this information to the table but I have been recommended by two different people that live in Ohio that drinking a small amount of bleach in a tall glass of milk is a good way to pass a drug test you wouldn't otherwise pass. There are absolutely people out there drinking bleach.
- dieselgate 4y agoWhat the heck? No way that works is my fist assumption but guess can see how folks would try it.
- skyyler 4y agoIt doesn't work. My guess on why it spreads is the fact that false negatives are pretty common with cannabis tests, so someone that tried this method passed a test they shouldn't have and they attribute this to the bleach.
- blablabla123 4y agoAccording to Wikipedia this is actually already ongoing since 2006.
- ashwagary 4y agoI will second this too but in my case it was from a source in the military. The fact that they had a long career and used it to pass UAs repeatedly made me believe there may be some truth to it.
- bediger4000 4y agoIsn't 4% the usual guess at the Lizardman Constant?
- dmonitor 4y agoyes
- amluto 4y agoSigh. > One part sodium chlorite, a chemical disinfectant, and one part acid This is not bleach. Bleach is sodium hypochlorite. Sodium chlorite can react with acids (under appropriate conditions, and as a non-chemist, finding a coherent description of those conditions is surprisingly difficult) to form chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide is a very useful chemical. You can put small amounts of it in water to kill microorganisms, and it is, in many respects, a dramatically better disinfectant than bleach. Here’s some for sale at an entirely legitimate store: https://www.rei.com/product/736898/potable-aqua-chlorine-dioxide-tablets-package-of-30 https://www.rei.com/product/736898/potable-aqua-chlorine-dio... You can use it to make “elemental chlorine free” paper. You can use it in the gas phase to deodorize or disinfect rooms! (But don’t breathe it!) Drinking it in anything more than a tiny concentration left over from water disinfection seems like a mistake to me. Also, AIUI, the chemicals involved in making it can also form chlorate, which is not something you want to be drinking.
- JohnFen 4y agoSodium hypochlorite is a specific bleach, but there are numerous other compounds that are also in the class of "bleaches".
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- mrguyorama 4y agoMMS is a type of bleach and drinking it hurts your body. This shouldn't have to be said but there's a weird cult around drinking it and giving it to SMALL CHILDREN to "cure autism"
- willcipriano 4y agoA lot of ultralight hikers purify water with bleach in the field. I have a tiny bottle as a backup water purification method. So, I haven't yet but I have bleach put aside for drinking in the future. https://americanhiking.org/resources/water-purification/ https://americanhiking.org/resources/water-purification/
- e1gen-v 4y agoWhy not just use iodine tablets?
- willcipriano 4y agoHave to buy iodine tablets, bleach I have laying around.
- e1gen-v 4y agoFair enough. Also does bleach stain your bottles/bladders?
- willcipriano 4y agoYou only need about a drop per liter or so, it's basically the same as city tap water, it doesn't appear to have a effect on Nalgene or smart water bottles, I don't own a bladder but it would probably be fine. It's only good for bacteria (and viruses but if you are worried about those id pack all your water in), parasites can survive bleach so you have to be careful what water source you use. I prefer the Sawyer filter but it's fine for a backup. The old school ultralight guys use it as a primary, you don't need a secondary because you can't really break bleach.
- jacobr1 4y agoWe keep bleach in our emergency supplies for the same reason. You need a high degree of dilution, which also implies a single gallon bottle of bleach can purify a very large amount of water (something like 10k galleons).