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In March of 2012, 19-month-old Ezekiel Stephan died of meningitis — a disease involving the inflammation of the membranes surrounding your brain and spinal cord. Very serious problem. The condition can sometimes be treated with antibiotics or antiviral drugs, but even then, it’s a longshot for full recovery.
In a bid to boost his immune system, the couple gave the boy — who was lethargic and becoming stiff — various home remedies, such as water with maple syrup, juice with frozen berries and finally a mixture of apple cider vinegar, horse radish root, hot peppers, mashed onion, garlic and ginger root as his condition deteriorated.
Per-lease? This is yet more evidence of the need to licence parents!
disclosure we do often have a garlic/ginger/honey/lemon mixture to boost the immune system, and it seems to work, but not in lieu of medicine.
veni bibi saltavi
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Parents like these should be criminally liable for the death of their child!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Quote: a friend told the couple their son had meningitis
Would you take your child to the hospital just because some friend diagnosed your child?
We might want to slow down on the judgement a bit.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: Would you take your child to the hospital just because some friend diagnosed your child?
No, but if my child shows signs of something as serious a meningitis, I would rush him/her to a proper doctor! The parents have no excuse!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: but if my child shows signs of something as serious a meningitis
Here are most of the symptoms:
Quote: Fever
Severe, persistent headache
Neck stiffness and pain that makes it difficult to touch your chin to your chest
Nausea and vomiting
Confusion and disorientation (acting "goofy")
Drowsiness or sluggishness
Sensitivity to bright light
Poor appetite
Kids get sick like this all the time. One problem kids immune systems have these days is that parents overreact and put their kids on antibiotics for everything. The kids immune system can't get stronger. Just saying.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: Kids get sick like this all the time
Really? Neck stiffness, confusion, vomiting, disorientation, etc. etc. If your child shows these signs and that is not enough for an urgent call to a doctor, what in heaven's name is required before you take a child for a professional opinion?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 9-Mar-16 15:37pm.
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I don't take my child to the doctor when they sneeze.  Although, when I lived in Mexico, anytime I sneezed, even once, people would ask if I was getting sick. So, I understand everyone has their own threshold. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, but I would take said child if they were "lethargic and becoming stiff".
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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jeron1 wrote: lethargic and becoming stiff".
How do you tell that a 19 month old is stiff? What does that even mean? Usually that happens during rigor mortis.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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A 19 month old is very mobile, and motion (mostly running) is almost constant while they are awake. What it means, in my non-MD opinion, is there's potentially a neurological problem. In any case, better safe than sorry.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: better safe than sorry.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's why you consult a doctor.
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At what point? What does stiffness in a 19 month old look like?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: How do you tell that a 19 month old is stiff?
What they actually said was that he was starting to watch Kevin McCarthy speeches without throwing up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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jeron1 wrote: "lethargic and becoming stiff"
Sounds like most of my teenage years. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You are BAD! +5 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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19 MONTHS old not 19 years. Above behavior is normal for a teenager.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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There aren't enough prisons in the world to house all the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My father-in-law used to chase them down the street, great fun to watch!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You only need to incarcerate the ones that watch their children die, without getting professional help. Cannot be that many of them.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Cannot be that many of them
and reducing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No bacon? It was obviously doomed to fail.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Dang, can they get a Darwin Award?
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Read the rules. Killing someone else (even your own offspring) does not qualify.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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