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YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead

Generally medical professionals do not vouch for using milk for tear gas despite it often being touted. The research seems to suggest they are largely the same in providing relief...

usernamesAreTricky OP , (edited )

One of the studied things was using antacids in that pepper spray study and didn't find much benfit for it for pepper spray. There currently doesn't really seem to much that research confirm works any better than any other liquid over the eyes

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

I would think that alcohol on the eyes wouldn't do too many good things to them, however

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

Only if they consent :3

(but also probably not great in terms of infection risk either)

usernamesAreTricky OP , (edited )

There are perceptional reasons why it may feel like milk worked better such as it being cooled vs using room temperature water. Or from being the second thing used. Or from various different factors

But the research above suggests it doesn't do as much as people think it does

The infection risks are not the same. Milk has stuff in it that microbes like for growing where water doesn't have nearly all that. Other stuff can enter inside. The eye infection pathway is concerning especially right now when bird flu seems to enter that way and is in large quatities of dairy milk. Not all pasturization methods are certain to actually remove it (i.e flash pasturization might not)

Edit: A minor point to clarify, capsaicin is in pepper spray but not tear gas. They often do get conflated but they are different

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

Worth highlighting this part of the article since I've seen a number of people falsely claiming the opposite on lemmy.world lately:

Transgender women’s bone density was found to be equivalent to that of cisgender women, which is linked to muscle strength.

And this is not the first study showing this same trend

Similar findings have been echoed in previous reporting. According to a recent report that generated an in-depth review of all English-language scientific literature (published between 2011-2021) about transgender (trans) women athlete participation in elite sport, several key conclusions coincide with findings from the IOC funded study

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

Did you read the original study here at all?

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

I believe the diference between the two claims may be due to controlling for height in one of the findings that they don't correlate to athleticism and not in the other

Reading some more scientific literature, I think they probably read that it was associated with muscle mass (due being associated with height which wasn't controled for). Controling for height makes the association go away

They are basing it off of different reports between those claims

usernamesAreTricky ,

They used stickers. I doubt it's super permanent by intention

usernamesAreTricky ,

The ace flag is kind of meh, imo.

Ok but have you ever seen what it looks like on a jacket that accidentally used the a really close color palette as the ace flag and put it in the right order? Looks pretty cool there

(sadly cannot find said jacket when searching it nor do I know where it came from. I merely observed someone else wearing it)

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