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morenewsat11 OP t1_itps852 wrote

A cautionary tale about the perils of soap and water for the elderly.

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skabamm t1_itptzcj wrote

Smoking animal excrement? Yeeeeesh!

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SilverGengar t1_itpuj8s wrote

This happens a lot with e.g homeless people, there is a delicate balance of microbiome at play in there

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voter1126 t1_itpukkj wrote

The topic of the elderly and not bathing came up in a discussion I had years ago with a home health nurse. She said that when they took over care for someone that had not bathed in a long time their immune system had incorporated the layers of dirt as part of itself and when they got them clean they would almost always get sicker. If they could get them past that then their health would usually improve.

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Intelligent-Bad7835 t1_itpzbk8 wrote

Yet somehow Americans believe it's a problem m to go a single day without showering.

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SniffCheck t1_itpzgww wrote

The crud was the only thing holding him together

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TolMera t1_itq1dco wrote

Is there a correlation or is this like serial killers are also ice cream salesmen?

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wolfsbanejane t1_itq4win wrote

I want to know who the new dirtiest man is. What's the line of succession like?

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ulululullululululul t1_itq5hjm wrote

It's like that gag from A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Prove the soap is safe by washing a hermit -- then the hermit dies.

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Dahhhkness t1_itq6w3q wrote

Replying to SniffCheck (#218,643)

>In 2014, the Tehran Times reported that Haji would eat roadkill, smoke a pipe filled with animal excrement, and believed that cleanliness would make him ill.

"Haji, is this you talking, or the filth?"

"I am the filth."

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morenewsat11 OP t1_itq8kfh wrote

Replying to MyVoiceIsElevating (#219,366)

According to the article that title now goes to Kailish "Kalau" Singh, who has founded a spiritual practice of baked non-washing.

> Kailash “Kalau” Singh, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, had not washed for more than 30 years in an attempt to help end “all the problems confronting the nation”.

> He would reject water in favour of what he called a “fire bath”. “Every evening as villagers gather, Kalau … lights a bonfire, smokes marijuana and stands on a leg praying to Lord Shiva".

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skoltroll t1_itqj25x wrote

Dihydrogen monoxide.

Nasty stuff.

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Squildo t1_itqlqbh wrote

Washed away his life force

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Pirate_Ben t1_itqrqnn wrote

Not enough to link his death to the bath for me. Being 94 is hazardous for your health, especially for a man.

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Fabiankh5757 t1_itqvhj0 wrote

My mother works in a nursing home and said a very dirty lady came in one day and after giving her a bath she passed away😳 so strange.

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imll99 t1_itqy2qw wrote

It makes sense, since it was water from a fire hose at the University of Tehran.

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LtCmdrJimbo t1_itqyt8n wrote

Reminds me of when Lemmy from Motörhead looked into doing a blood transfusion but was told it could kill him cause his body wasn't used to blood that clean.

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ayyohh911719 t1_itqz1el wrote

Replying to SilverGengar (#219,458)

My dad, while not homeless, is a walking biohazard. But he rarely gets sick. And I mean RARELY.

We’ve said for years that when he dies we will have to donate his body to science lol

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chocobrobobo t1_itr9g1q wrote

The lack of people commenting on how this article in unreadable tells me that yall don't even have the time to click links anymore lol. Just respond to the headline I guess.

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peensteen t1_itrcg71 wrote

This reminds me of how the Puritans and so-called "Pilgrims" at Plymouth stank so bad, that the First Americans that met them kept trying to convince them to bathe. The Mayflower idiots thought that all you had to to was change your underwear. Actually taking your clothes off, and submerging your body was sinful. Ew.

Next time some fool brags that their family arrived with the Mayflower, remind them that those people were zealots who got thrown out of Europe, and only survived by the charity of First Nations, who were apparently more Christ-like than the Puritans.

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tangcameo t1_itrco7h wrote

It was… it was… soap poisoning

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j4ckbauer t1_itrdr3j wrote

Doctor r/JoeRogan MD would draw some very interesting conclusions from this 'research'!

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Sonyguyus t1_itref83 wrote

Where’s Alanis Morrisette at???

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Sayoria t1_itrro1a wrote

Is the fountain of youth within the lack of cleanliness? 94 is pretty old for a man, so maybe I should stop washing!

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PsyFiFungi t1_its4ejt wrote

Replying to morenewsat11 (#219,725)

I love weed. I love bonfires. Hell, I hate to not bath but sometimes I miss a shower or two, depending on how life goes. I barely even have much body odor, people are surprised.

But goddamn, years ago during a deep depression I didn't shower for around 2 weeks. My hair, my skin, it was like a snake shedding, or some invertebrate shedding it's exoskeleton. It all gathers and collects. Also, my balls smelled like ass, and my ass smelled like balls and ass.

Sorry for such a detailed description. My actual point is: collect samples of his body to see the microbial craziness that's going on, hose him down with a giant fire truck's hose, then smoke a giant bowl with MC Dirty Ganja over here

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Jak_n_Dax t1_itsdyrd wrote

My man was together by dirt.

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haruame t1_itshaqm wrote

94 years old? Just shows you how a stress free life is the key to longevity

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Amarantheus t1_itsrayp wrote

Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that he was... You know, 94 fucking years old. Nope, gotta be the bath.

In other news, increased ice cream sales linked to a greater incidence of drowning.

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KmartQuality t1_itt6eu0 wrote

They wanted him to wash so the funeral people would have an easier time of washing his body before burial.

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skabamm t1_ituo2j5 wrote

Replying to PsyFiFungi (#227,488)

This is what I came to ask!!!

I get making a point. But that man's ballsack has got to be the gnarliest, stinkiest, stickiest grotesque thing on the planet. Right?

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klyxes t1_iubdxqt wrote

Ah I see what happened. He became so dirty that the bacteria inside/on his skin actually formed a mutualistic relationship. They would now protect the body they've been living on care-free for countless bacteria-generations from invaders. The body's own immune system, having outsourced the job of actually protecting, shriveled into uselessness.

Thus, after taking a bath, the body was left without its guardians, free to be invaded by other bacteria who were never a part of the original mutualism.

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warlandgame t1_iud18j0 wrote

Replying to MasterGuardianChief (#223,152)

Look I’m old if people forgot LeBron said the “I’ll start to get the tetatnus shot since they rub against rust all the time but since they have been halo products people don't really care. Don't get all hopped up when you know damn-near-exactly where you are checking on you photos to see if they are having the same problem myself

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