‘What’s the worst health advice you’ve been given by your relatives?’ – 23 home remedies that are best avoided

13.

‘That if I have a more plant-based diet I’ll cure my arthritis. I’m vegetarian and have always been more plant based than any of my family.’
–louilou96

14.

‘When I was a kid my parents tried to cure my acute asthma attack (that ultimately put me in hospital for a week) by giving me essential oils to inhale.’
–CicadaSlight7603

15.

‘My grandma used to swear that butter was the best thing to put on a burn. So glad she wasn’t a nurse.’
–mamabear003

16.

‘Cabbage leaves for mastitis. 100% bullshit!’
–marsarefromspiders

17.

‘Burns were treated with toothpaste. It made the pain much worse of course, but thats good because healing correlates with pain, so the worse the pain the better the healing! Medicine isn’t supposed to be fun or comfortable after all.

Any disease related to your respiratory system is treated by gargling and snorting salt water. So even if you’re coughing up mucus from your lungs, you must snort the salt water. It was very uncomfortable because its the same sensation as drowning in the sea, but of course as always discomfort correlates with healing.

She insisted that salt water has antibacterial properties and will kill the bacteria causing the infection. When I pointed out they are almost always viral infections, not bacterial, she insisted it kills something and I am just arguing semantics.’
–Lizbelizi

18.

‘My wife’s grandma recommended putting a cough sweet against her urethra to cure a UTI.’
–FlorianTheLynx

19.

‘My mum, who is 60 and struggles to get out of a chair if she’s been sat in it longer than a minute and loses breath walking up and down stairs, tells me lifting weights is bad for my health and will break my body.

Yeah sure that’s why not doing any exercises for your entire life means at 60 years old you refuse to walk across a carpark because it’s too difficult.

I know lifting weights comes with risks but I’m not a powerlifter or an ego lifter, I just want to do some squats.’
–Commercial-Bat-4534

20.

‘My nan told my mum to put sugar in your baby’s water bottle to ‘help settle them down’.

The result being that my sister and I have an exceptionally high sugar threshold. I’d say I don’t have a sweet tooth: ALL my teeth are sweet! Dessert is my favourite part of a meal. Not surprisingly, I have struggled with my weight for most (all) of my adult life!’
–No_Application_8698

21.

‘My gran was insistent that taking ginger tablets and going to a chiropractor would cure my endometriosis. It didn’t, funnily enough.’
–death-by-milk

22.

‘I once cracked my head open badly enough to need staples and my Dad, in an attempt to avoid too much fuss and A&E on bonfire night (plus my mother was newly pregnant with my brother, so avoiding the stress of hospital), suggested we just stick a tea towel on my head and it should stop.’
–FormalAd604

23.

‘My granny used to eat the bacon fat that I left on the plate because, and I quote, it “oils your tubes”.

Add a Glasgow accent for effect.’
–Yermawsyerdaisntit

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