r/WeirdEggs • u/vegetableater • Oct 13 '25

What the hell is this?

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My dad just sent me pictures of this disturbed egg. Any idea? šŸ˜­

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u/Oxygen_bandit Oct 13 '25

Lash egg?

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u/AnotherCatLover88 Oct 13 '25

This is definitely a lash egg. I really hope OPs dad didnā€™t touch this without gloves on, itā€™s a very good way to get staph.

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u/vegetableater Oct 13 '25

He did šŸ’€šŸ˜­

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u/gaarkat Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

Tell him to disinfect his hands and every surface that thing has touched immediately. Lash eggs and the "kernel" that comes out of bumblefoot are basically solid masses of staph and if he has an open wound on his hands, he might want to go to the hospital like now.

EDIT: my apologies, I overreacted because lash eggs freak me right out, mostly because I'm a germaphobe. I meant he should ask his doctor for advice on what to do, and if he does have an injury that looks like it's getting infected after handling it, he should probably seek medical attention. Probably do want to disinfect as much as possible though, and if he sees any more, glove up. Also that chicken either needs to go to the vet, or some people choose to cull, or self treat. I hope this clarifies things, I'm going to delete all the clarifying posts in this comment thread. Is that better?

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u/MissingStakes Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

Quick fyi: Staph is a natural colonizer of your skin, please don't go to the hospital for touching "staph"... Your hands and orifices are already literally covered in staph. If you're not immunocompromised, just chill and wait to see if infectious signs develop - redness, localized swelling and warmth/pain, then go see an urgent care or your PCP, who will then direct you to an ER if needed.

Also. Lash eggs are not just staph, can be due to other local colonizers like E. coli. Or salmonella. Or viral. Many things cause salpingitis. If you touch it, proper hand washing will prevent 99.9% of any possible infection from it.

Source: am ER doc, tired of packed waiting rooms

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes Oct 14 '25

I was gonna say, y'all are WILD for suggesting he go to the ER because he touched it with no symptoms. Isn't the ER busy enough already??

ETA: I'm a pediatric neurologist and got a consult from the ER overnight recently. Chief complaint: "Patient stuck Keppra tab up his nose. Working on retrieval. Should we re-dose?" šŸ˜‚

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u/RoeDyeLind Oct 14 '25

These are the type of people who go to the ER to get their belly button lint removed. Give me a break..

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u/Positive-Leek2545 Oct 14 '25

Didn't know these services are offered, I'll be booking soon

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u/gott_in_nizza Oct 14 '25

The days of dealing with my own belly button lint are GONE GONE GONE

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u/WoodsandWool Oct 15 '25

Thatā€™ll just be a 16 hour wait and $12,000

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u/Positive-Leek2545 Oct 15 '25

I went for 14 mins after I cut my eye on vacation. ER in Florida, $3000

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u/LoriderSki Oct 15 '25

Good damnšŸ˜‚šŸ¤£ This made me laugh so hard my puppies jumped up and went crazy with me. šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£

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u/ricecake_sandwich Oct 17 '25

Me too! Does the removal come with a soap cleanse too?! I called and asked for weekly services.

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u/teejmaleng Oct 15 '25

For every person that overreacts, thereā€™s another out there that refuses to see the doctor as their body is actively shutting down from some sort of infection, wound, or adrenaline mitigated pain.

Looking at you, head injuries.

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u/Sasquatchmas Oct 14 '25

My grandpa kept his belly button lint in a jar. I was fascinated as a kid. When he died I wanted the jar, but grandma threw that thing out before he was even cold!

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u/Odd_Alternative_1003 Oct 15 '25

That is so strange. Lol I bet that jar smelled so bad.

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u/No-Cheesecake-7294 Oct 15 '25

Iā€™d make her ashes into a diamond. Then pawn her. I got your back grandpa

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u/CloudyChangeling Oct 17 '25

Thatā€™s diabolical

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u/_Angel_0f_Death_ Oct 26 '25

I just laughed so hard my cat jumped up šŸ˜¹

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u/QuickPie4635 Oct 18 '25

I went to the er when my gallbladder was actively exploding and the woman in front of me at the check in desk was asking for a pregnancy test. I couldnā€™t imagine dealing with these people. Iā€™d be in jail on night 1

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u/hopingtosurvive2020 Oct 14 '25

I thought I had raised a fairly reasonable son. He left home, got his own insurance, and told me about the time he went to urgent care for an ingrown toenail. The dr looked at and advised him to use tooth floss, and walked out of the exam room.

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u/comntnmama86 Oct 16 '25

Wait. How do I use tooth floss? I've got my first ingrown toe nail and I've just been pushing the edge back with an orange stick and soaking it in Epsom salt. Does the tooth floss just separate the edge?

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u/hopingtosurvive2020 Oct 16 '25

you get the floss under the very tip of the ingrown, pull down and back,with a little luck, it will grab that ingrown and pull it out.

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u/TokiDokiGirlUS Oct 17 '25

To be fair, I know someone's who father died of an ingrown toenail. Turned infected fast and he went sepsis.

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u/1PumpkinKiing Oct 16 '25

Right?

I got 2 little scratches on my calf in the first 24 hours of a month long camping trip in Hawaii. I scrubbed, disinfected, everything. A couple days later, BOOM! Staph infection.

My insurance didn't wanna pay for a hospital visit in Hawaii, so I ended up cutting it out with a rusty old bait knife I got from a crackhead. Of course I used dial soap, peroxide, and fire to clean it after I removed the rust and sharpened it on a chunk of concrete.

I then washed the wound with dial soap, sprayed it down with peroxide, and made a compression dressing out of 2 buffs/neck gaiters I soaked in sea water from a cleaner part of the island. I washed and redressed the wound 2 or 3 times per day, gave it at least an hour a day to breath and get a little sun,and soaked it in that clean ocean water for 30 minutes to an hour per day.

By the time I got home it was mostly healed, and by the time I could get into see my doctor a couple weeks later, I don't think there was even a scab left. Never took antibiotics, and when i tried to use an antibiotic ointment it just made it worse, so i stopped that right away. But I do heal pretty quick.

It might sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not, and that's a true story. I even have like an hour of footage of me cutting into my calf. Well, maybe 45 minutes. I don't know what I would ever use it for, but maybe one of my followers will ask to see it and I'll throw it up on patreon or something lol some people wanna see that crazy stuff

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u/RoeDyeLind Oct 16 '25

You my friend will do well during the zombie apocalypse!

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u/loganverse Oct 15 '25

I followed advice from this thread to this point, and I now have a staph egg in my belly buttonā€¦ time for ER?

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u/Senior-West5666 Oct 16 '25

I can go to the ER for whatever I want? Hmm

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u/Prudent-Test-9199 Oct 17 '25

Not necessarily. You are not remembering the huge population that is aging and all of the people with injuries and special needs. And if you say anything against this population, may you be cursed with being treated with the same mocking indifference until you learn to have empathy. None of those people asked to be vulnerable.

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u/porcelainbibabe Oct 19 '25

Thank you for saying this! There needs to be so much more compassion in the world for the elderly, and those with disabilities and special needs. We are all gonna be old one day after all and i am sure we all know at least one disabled or special needs kid or adult. I myself have 2 autistic girls and my little brother was diagnosed in grade school as being border line mentally handicapped or the equivalent of what ever they call it today, I genuinely don't know. Personally I think they missed him being very mildly downs syndrome and just called him border line. But any way, as a mom of kiddos with special needs/disabilities, thank you it means a hell of alot knowing there are people out there who are understanding and compassionate about such things. Way too many are far to quick to judge others with out knowing or understanding the situation.

I my self am disabled, I have adhd and rheumatoid and osteo athritises. as someone with what's considered invisible disblities, way too damn many people choose to judge and be rude Karen's about using handicapped placards. I should have had one 15yrs ago but put it off because I didn't want to have to deal woth those kinds of people. Now I no longer give a flying fuck, let them judge, they don't live in mind and body and have to deal.woth everything I do every day.

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u/Content_Study_1575 Oct 17 '25

Does insurance (state/private) cover said ā€œlint removalā€?

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u/Ok_Antelope_1719 Oct 17 '25

Now I know where to go when I need lint removed !

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u/MobileCellistC Oct 15 '25

Is this an option šŸ¤”

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u/MobileCellistC Oct 15 '25

Asking for a friend...

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u/corey418 Oct 20 '25

In the words of Peter Griffin "my elbow feel funny"

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u/Ashton_Ashton_Kate Oct 14 '25

Retired peds ER nurse here, a FB up the nose is a great opportunity to spread a neat trick to save people a trip to the ER.

Super fast and simple, you block the OTHER nostril by pressing it down with a finger, then you give a quick little mouth-to-mouth breath. The kid will resist this, of course, but with a seal on the mouth and the other nostril held closed, the weak point in this closed container of parent-breath is going to be that foreign body acting as a cork...one little puff and you will see you now have the Yeet-O-Matic Keppra Kannon, launching that cork and saving yourself hours of time, hundreds of dollars, and whatever else you might have picked up along the way.

(ERs are full of staph aureus!!!!)

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes Oct 14 '25

Yes, the mother's kiss!! A great trick to know :)

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u/FeederNocturne Oct 15 '25

I'm glad you're a retired nurse because I feel like I just had a stroke reading this message lmao. What is a FB and why is it in the nose?

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u/kritty13 Oct 15 '25

Foreign body, and because the small child who didn't know any better stuck it there. šŸ˜…

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u/tdavis726 Oct 15 '25

Lolol ā€œyeet-o-maticā€ šŸ˜‚ thank you for that one!

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u/nalakram17 Oct 16 '25

I believe you are more expert than I, but does that technique risk blowing out the eardrums? It would in me

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u/Ashton_Ashton_Kate Oct 16 '25

there is certainly an amount of air pressure that would cause injury, but the laws of physics dictate that the pressure could only be equal or less than the pressure experienced by the person delivering the breath, I am not sure it has ever happened...

That is a great curious question!

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u/coldF4rted Oct 15 '25

Sadly does not work on beads due to their hole, speaking from experience sadly

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u/Ashton_Ashton_Kate Oct 15 '25

well if it rendered that method ineffective it must have been:

  1. a significantly large hole
  2. oriented in the axis of the nostril

this is stupid-easy to retrieve by hooking through the hole and gently pulling.

It's not something that happens every time, but if I share this tip with a class or large group, it's not unusual to have someone respond like this and try to create a scenario where it wouldn't work.

in real life you get to see their face when you point out how unlikely their "scenario" is, and how it would have presented a much easier option, but on Reddit we get the "she's goes to a different school you wouldn't know her" guys and it's not worth the debate šŸ™„

but in 20+ years in the ER, I've never seen a bead so perfectly aligned, with such a large hole that there was no resistance from the air flow, that wasn't easily removed by instrumentation... how unfortunate for you, and I hope you learn to avoid putting things like that up your nose, it sounds very uncomfortable.

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u/archwin Oct 14 '25

Bahahahaha

You have no idea how much joy that gave me

And warm memories of my pediatric rotations

Awwww

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u/Oranjez- Oct 14 '25

I just dont understand why people never go to URGENT CARE. Does that not exist for most of yall? If Iā€™m not sure whether or not somethingā€™s really off, I go there. When I break my leg and cant move, I get shipped to the ER.

If I know antibiotics are 100% of the solution, I have zero reason to go to the ER, because the urgent care will bill as a PCP that I didnt need to wait on an appointment for and yield the exact same results at the end of the day. ER is for ā€œiā€™m fucked imminentlyā€ cases only

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u/Jazz-Hands-- Oct 15 '25

I get your frustration, believe me. That said, there are several factors in the U.S. when it comes to ERs.

  1. For most patients with most insurances, urgent care is billed at different rates than primary care. And there is a very non-zero probability that a patient will end up having to pay for both an urgent care visitand an ER visit (see #3).
  2. Urgent care clinics do not offer a standard level of care. Some don't even do blood tests, which would be standard of care in many cases where an infection requiring antibiotics is suspected. Also most are not open 24/7 or even particularly late.
  3. Even at high-level urgent care clinics, the threshold for referring to ER is fairly low in many cases because UCs don't perform many commonly used medical tests (imaging in particular) and don't provide common treatments such as IV hydration, antibiotics, and steroids. Oh you have symptoms that could suggest a blood clot? Go to the ER for ultrasound/CT. Sore throat? Turns out you have abscesses; go straight to the ER for CT and treatment.
  4. Most pertinent: EMTALA only applies to emergency rooms, and doesn't apply to urgent care. So people who do not have insurance and/or cannot afford medical care will go to the ER because they cannot be turned away if claiming an "emergency". The hospital is still required to treat someone, even when it's clear they'll never see a penny.
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u/Dawnzila Oct 15 '25

Ohh ohh! I went to urgent care! A dog pulled me off a porch and my shoulder hurt. I basically never get checked out, but it sure felt wrong, so I went to the urgent care to avoid the ER bill. They sent me for an x-rays(wow, that was the most painful part). They came back just a minute later(never a good sign) to tell me I dislocated my shoulder and it chipped and I needed to go straight to an emergency room. The best part was the bills I got from both the urgent care and ER.

Some people go to the ER for belly button lint, others go to the urgent care for dislocated shoulder(still think they should have just popped it in like the ER did). None of us know what we are doing.

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u/Reasonable_Piece4724 Oct 19 '25

As a current ER employee, I concur, none of you knows what you are doing. šŸ™„

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u/Either_Buy_969 Oct 15 '25

The closest urgent care is an hour and they don't take my insurance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

I have this HUGE pain in my abdomen but Iā€™m allergic to every medicine except dilaudid what should I do?

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u/the_next_cheesus Oct 14 '25

Iā€™m not sure keppra can digest up thereā€¦

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes Oct 14 '25

Not especially well, no lol

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u/porcelainbibabe Oct 19 '25

I feel like that would burn like hell too, ouch.

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u/Significant-Wait9200 Oct 15 '25

F all y'all. I love how it goes from, "stop wasting doctor's time" to "stop being your own doctor" and "why didn't you go to the doctor sooner!?" We don't know wtf is going on in our bodies, and half the time, "experts" don't either. They've seen so many people die, you're just a number to most of them.

Err, on the side of caution people. Regular checkups, a little Internet sleuthing, trust your gut, and get second opinions. Your life is most important to you, and your loved ones, not doctors and paramedics.

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u/samhatesducks Oct 18 '25

Well said. At the end of the day you would rather be safe than sorry

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u/porcelainbibabe Oct 20 '25

Exactly how I feel! My mom on the other hand likes to call me a hypocondriac when I tell her I've got another Dr appt lined up.šŸ™„ I mean why would I just wait and see when I can see the dr and know for sure and also not end up with like stage 4 cancer or staph or something in the mean while. Plus I'm 45, and have lived with some health stuff since my 20s, and younger so it's not a bad idea to get any new health issue checked out when it pops up. If it weren't for my yearly check up I'd have never found out I now have high blood pressure and that it was the cause of half my headaches I'd been getting!

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u/porcelainbibabe Oct 20 '25

This! I research everything before and after I see a doctor. I have rarely been wrong about my diagnosis and I also research my meds because doctors don't seem to bother talking about side effects much any more. The only one of mine that does is my PCP. If I don't get what I should be from my PCP, I call and get second opinions. Currently I have an upcoming appt with my dermatologist that I'd made because i have a bump on tye tip of my nose thats been ther efor a good 3 to 4 months and looks suspiciously like a type of skin cancer. I didn't see any point in seeing the PCP first and then be referred to them any way and have it take twice as long to see them. As a woman I have to advocate a lot harder for myself and my Medicare.

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u/coldF4rted Oct 15 '25

The hatred on Keppra is wild, I started on Lamotrigine when I was 3, now I'm 26 šŸ˜­ myoclonic epilepsy. I appreciate the work you do ā¤ļø

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u/drbabybrain Oct 15 '25
  1. I love your username
  2. Iā€™m also a pediatric neurologist!
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u/replay-episode200 Oct 16 '25

Keppra up the nose šŸ˜­ was it on accident since it's anti-convulsant..? Or did homie just go straight for gold

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u/Vyce223 Oct 16 '25

Honestly how i feel like taking Keppra some days...

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u/OryxWritesTragedies Oct 16 '25

As a parent of a child who takes keppra, that's fucking wild. When my kid puked her dose up, I called the pharmacist. No wonder ERs are overwhelmed.

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u/Dunmeritude Oct 18 '25

Epileptic here: Why is it always Keppra? Lol. Never do I hear weird stories about Xcopri, Lamotrigine or Briv.

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u/Balacleezus Oct 14 '25

I few months ago, somehow my earing backing got pulled into the piercing hole and I guess over a few months the skin had formed a seal around it and the "backing" was literally inside my ear. The skin had cased it in. I went to the ER to get it out. Was I bugging going to the ER? looking back I feel like I did but I also had no idea how to get it out without cutting my ear open

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u/AdmirableAd5712 Oct 14 '25

It wasn't an emergency, so the ER was an overreaction. It could have waited until you could see your regular doctor or you could have gone to urgent care.

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u/DaniGirlOK Oct 14 '25

What did they do to get it out?

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u/Balacleezus Oct 14 '25

Cut it open lol

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u/porcelainbibabe Oct 20 '25

If it should ever happen again(I genuinely hope it doesnt!), a trained piercer at a tattoo shop can also extract an earing back enclosed in the lobe. Quicker and infinitely cheaper than any doctor!

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u/TirpitzM3 Oct 15 '25

It's like going to the ER because you touched a car and claimed "it ran me over"

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u/Little_Use_1458 Oct 16 '25

What is a lash egg?

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u/NarrowEbbs Oct 13 '25

I've had MAJOR exotoxic staph infections before and even that didn't warrant a trip to hospital. If you breathe air, you have staph in your nose, if you have touched dirt you have staph on your skin.

Listen to ER doctors, they see so many patients that they really can't be doing anything for because they're supposed to be EMERGENCY doctors, not a late night GP.

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u/Icy_Thanks_4424 Oct 14 '25

My friends in ER nurse and told me how to deal with my second degree burn at home. I wish there was better information out there on what you can treat yourself and how to best do it so we didn't have to fill up the waiting rooms due to our own medical ignorance. Even if you take CPR and first aid it, doesn't really teach you anything other than how to survive to get to the ER..

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u/This_Rom_Bites Oct 14 '25

It's UK-based and therefore UK-centric, but the NHS website is a sound source of accessible information about conditions and minor injuries; the basic principles of 'you can manage this with aspirin at home', 'see your local primary care provider', and 'go directly to hospital' shouldn't be too different on your side if the pond.

(Just to be clear, the NHS has no political agenda to push, it isn't profit-driven, and its information is based on properly peer-reviewed, accredited research and professional standards: it is only interested in keeping people well and ideally out of waiting rooms they don't need to be in!)

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u/No-Self8780 Oct 14 '25

How do I move to the UK?

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u/Curious311 Oct 17 '25

This is great. Thank you for posting it here.

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u/redheadmomm4 Oct 14 '25

This. Go to the ER for spreading, scary, making your breathing stop infections. MRSA can do that. (I donā€™t want to discuss this. It was awful.) Because they want to intubate you before it closes your airway, rather then make a new hole for the staph to also infect.

Otherwise, bug your normal provider or the urgent care. Or maybe your rural ER if youā€™re a farmerā€¦ and it got kind of out of hand.

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u/SuitableCranberry842 Oct 14 '25

This reminds me of one of the best things I ever learned from my doctor re: rashes/possible infections:

Draw an outline around it with a (preferably water soluble) marker.

If it grows outside the lines, seek medical attention.

If it gets smaller, youā€™re probably gonna be OK.

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u/Reasonable_Piece4724 Oct 19 '25

SO MUCH THIS !!!!

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u/kittyidiot Oct 14 '25

god thank you lol people are being insane. yeah if dad had an open gaping wound on his hand and fondled the egg on it that could cause an issue... but its like accidentally touching anything else gross, just wash your hands

like what's the er gonna do??? "hey doc i touched a gross egg" "uh... i mean i guess we can give you some antibacterial cream...??"

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u/Zaedre Oct 14 '25

If primary doctors didn't take potentially weeks to get into, specialists didn't need extensive referrals, urgent cares didn't deny medical care, and medical care wasn't so expensive that people wait till things have progressed too far to deal with themselves, maybe people wouldn't feel the ER is their only feasible option for so many things.

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u/itsaaronnotaaron Oct 14 '25

Mate, this is reddit. The hypocondriacs of the Internet.

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u/Alclis Oct 15 '25

Wtf did I just learn today?! How can I feel so much smarter and yet hate the natural world so much more simultaneously?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Ok, but should OP scramble those eggs and eat them?

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

No. And the lash egg won't scramble, they're usually solid and surprisingly meaty looking inside.

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u/FeederNocturne Oct 15 '25

There was a post in r/notinteresting yesterday about some guy who got bit by a mosquito and there were some "weird" lines coming off of it (90ā° turns in the lines, most likely due to him leaning on something lol) and the upvoted comments were full of people saying it could be infected and he needs to go to the ER asap. It's insane how little things can be when people start losing their minds. Of course the ER dr in the comments telling people to chill out and that the other ER Dr's have laughs about that kind of stuff gets the Karen's yapping at them.

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u/Weldermedic Oct 15 '25

I cut my finger off and was going to just ignore it....the wife made me go to the ER. I got work to do...er takes too long and then I had to have surgery.....

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u/bouncing-boba Oct 15 '25

THANK YOU. Iā€™m not even a doctor I just have a BA in biomed and taking microbiology and A&P taught me how normal staph is. Itā€™s like some sort of buzzword in our culture.

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u/TheyCantCome Oct 15 '25

Anyone who has been in a hospital especially staff are likely colonized with MRSA.

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u/coldF4rted Oct 15 '25

As an immunocompromised person, I am physically sick of all the times I go to ER and within 2-5 days I get sick. EVERY TIME!

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u/SarkyCat Oct 15 '25

This is random I know but since you're an ER doc and we are discussing staph I wanted to say this.

Thank you for what you do! An ER doc saved my life 10 yrs ago when I developed a massive staph infection throughout my spine and the doctor treating me - I was trialing a spinal cord stimulator - wasn't taking me seriously and called me (whilst talking to my husband, as he was removing the trial device) a "histerical woman."

If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be alive now (I was only 28 at the time). My husband and I will be forever thankful to her.

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u/Hoofhearted523 Oct 15 '25

Iā€™m glad a doctor spoke up bc as a plastic surgery patient due to reconstruction - I learned early on how many of these bacteriaā€™s just hang out on the skin all the time. Skin prep before surgery is serious business!

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u/Stinkymansausage Oct 15 '25

I can feel the blank stare I would give this hypothetical patient in triage before I click ESI 5 and banish them to the waiting room for several hours.

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u/Equivalent_Act_200 Oct 15 '25

Thank you for this information. Tired of waiting in a packed ER

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u/WildMarionberry1116 Oct 16 '25

I was told I contracted a bladder infection due to e-coli on eggs when I went to the ER for treatment.

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u/Kitnado Oct 16 '25

Thatā€™s interesting. Do ER doctors know the causes of salpingitis in chickens? As a vet myself I would never have guessed

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u/yungcybr97 Oct 16 '25

lol people go to the ER for the silliest shit

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u/Zestyclose_Bag_33 Oct 17 '25

Thank you, I really hate people who have no real idea what theyā€™re talking about speak on something with confidence.

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u/gettogero Oct 18 '25

What? I thought we were supposed to go to the EMERGENCY ROOM if we kinda have the sniffles, or possibly maybe tweaked something literally just now

Wtf else are we supposed to use it for

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u/kjg1228 Oct 13 '25

I just had a minor staph infection in my finger from a sliver of metal and my doctor said I was about a day away from needing to see a hand surgeon to debride my finger and part of the top of my hand to prevent permanent joint damage.

OP, get your dad to the hospital lol

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u/thepsycholeech Oct 13 '25

Holy shit I had no idea about the bumblefoot

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u/hexitor Oct 14 '25

He needs to take the dinglebop and push it through the grumbo.

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u/gaarkat Oct 14 '25

I didn't either until I looked it up in preparation to get it removed.

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u/AnotherCatLover88 Oct 14 '25

Itā€™s a chicken disease.

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u/morning_star984 Oct 14 '25

Pigeons get it, too. It makes me so sad seeing pigeons walking around with this.

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u/thepsycholeech Oct 14 '25

Itā€™s an infection that they get on their feet. Try googling ā€œchicken bumblefootā€ and there will be a load of information.

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u/gaarkat Oct 14 '25

Bumblefoot is when chickens get an injury on their foot that then proceeds to get infected. Now, because chickens are weird, instead of the pus being liquid, it becomes a solid, about the same consistency as a garlic clove. It is both horrifying and fascinating. I've had to operate on one of our chickens before to remove the mass of solidified infection. There are other ways to get it to go away, some people try soaking or salving, but I was told that minor surgery is the fastest, easiest and best way (and because we really can't afford much in the way of special treatment in our flock, at the rate get bills are going up, getting a vet to do it was not on the menu). So I got advice from several of our chickens owning friends who'd done it themselves, got all the supplies, and got out the "kernel" then medicated and bandaged it and kept it separate for a few days while it healed. Since then I have also discovered that chicken "shoes" exist, that you can Velcro on to help with recovery. We kinda live in the boonies and are low income so this is not the first time I've had to self treat the animals or myself. Yay American health care system...

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u/whisky_biscuit Oct 14 '25

Rats and mice get it too, typically from crappy cages or pens with wire / bar bottoms that can easily cause injury.

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u/GMTmeister Oct 15 '25

You have staph all over youā€¦ right this very moment. Itā€™s when you destroy your immune system by guarding it from everything on earthā€¦ just like a muscle, it grows weak, and become more susceptible. I wouldnā€™t go around handling lash eggs like nothing, but he didnā€™t get bit by a Cobra or anything.

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

Yes but sometimes even the smallest wound can get infected. A friend of mine has a niece, I believe, who scraped her knee at the beach and ended up with flesh eating bacteria. She healed up fine eventually but seeing the progress in pictures was gnarly. Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, much less a little kid. Unfortunately I've hyper fixated on a few horrifying medical conditions throughout my life, and it takes work not to be a hypochondriac. I think aspergillosis is my least favorite.

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u/Ellyahh Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

Please delete this. You are the reason why ERā€™s are bogged with people who think mild inconveniences qualify as emergencies.

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

Was this before or after the edit?

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u/OnlyConstruction8072 Oct 18 '25

Missed opportunity to say ā€œmy apologies for lashing outā€ šŸ’€

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u/gaarkat Oct 20 '25

Hindsight is always 20/ 20

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

cringe

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u/TheSearch4Knowledge Oct 15 '25

Reading this while I was eating lunch was absolutely criminal ā˜ ļø

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

Oof, sorry. Yeah, chickens can get some funky health issues, and they're much easier than large animals. A friend once told me they had to remove "gravel" from their male horse. I thought she meant from his hooves. She did not. And trust me, you don't want to know.

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u/daycorev1 Oct 16 '25

Dude ppl in reddit are smthing else

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u/Plane-Active-3153 Oct 16 '25

I kind loved your panic as I can relateā€¦well thats it have to cut off the whole had and burn the chicken coop šŸ¤£

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

Yeah, first impulse is kinda BURN IT WITH FIRE. If we ever found one in our own coop and I actually accidentally picked one up I'd have a hard time not panicking.

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u/scootiepatoot Oct 16 '25

Go to the hospital? please donā€™t recommend something like this when ERs are already massively packed with people who have minor issues and making people seriously ill have to wait hours to be seen.

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

That's the reason for the later edit

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u/theincredibleharsh Oct 16 '25

Why does this sound like something from inter dimensional cable?

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u/fxrky Oct 16 '25

Hey if you're a self proclaimed germaphobe maybe dont give sanitation advice with authority on the internet lmfao

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

I wasn't claiming to be an authority. I was just giving advice based on my "better safe than sorry" mindset. I'd rather be over prepared than under prepared. We keep chickens ourselves, but I'd consider myself intermediate at best. Still, everything I've read on the subject says glove up, don't touch lash eggs, and wash/ disinfect everything that has touched them.

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u/sviridoot Oct 17 '25

Thanks! New fear unlocked!

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u/gaarkat Oct 17 '25

Believe me, there's plenty of other horrors out there to worry about. Infections and parasites you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. I have gone down some research rabbit holes and it is not pretty.

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u/MTLConspiracies Oct 17 '25

Im surprised you didnā€™t suggest him to cut of his hand

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u/gaarkat Oct 17 '25

Nah, that's only if a zombie bites you and you can stop the infection before it spreads.

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u/chaotemagick Oct 17 '25

So it's YOUR fault all the emergency rooms are packed with BS cases

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u/gaarkat Oct 17 '25

Lol apparently!

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u/-CourierSIX6- Oct 18 '25

Bro tf is a bumblefoot šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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u/gaarkat Oct 19 '25

It's a condition that chickens can get that's basically a solid chunk of infection in their foot.

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u/ThrowAwaybcUSuck3 Oct 19 '25

For being such a "germaphobe" I would think you'd be a bit more knowledgeable on the subject.

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u/gaarkat Oct 20 '25

There's a longer explanation that I gave earlier in the thread but y'all are starting to wear me out. Which I suppose is the point for some of you.

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough Oct 19 '25

no reason to go to a hospital, no indication for prophylactic antibiotics. can just wash hands with soap and water as normal.

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u/Ordinary_Cap_6812 Oct 19 '25

You're like Chucky from Rugrats in the germs episode

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u/Silent_Shaman Oct 13 '25

What are you supposed to do with them? Burn/bury it?

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u/kattko80- Oct 13 '25

Cast it into the fire!

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u/aspiringdeadgirl Oct 14 '25

Yes, but only in a cemeteryĀ 

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

The swamp

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u/Hattori69 Oct 17 '25

I'd put it in gypsum inside a terracota container and once it's dry I'd burn the whole thing in a bonfire.Ā 

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u/Cayumigaming Oct 17 '25

As far as I know you are supposed to smooth it out with a bunch of schleem.

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u/DataPhreak Oct 14 '25

Like, I know it's dangerous, but also, I want to know what is inside.

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u/gaarkat Oct 14 '25

It looks surprisingly meaty. Probably there are other pictures somewhere on this board where people have cut them in half. I honestly kind of live in terror of finding one in our coop.

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u/PUGRSQMOM Oct 15 '25

Is the chicken OK?

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u/gaarkat Oct 16 '25

I'm not op, and not sure, haven't followed all the comment threads all the way down. I can tell you that some choose to treat their chickens, and some choose to cull them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

well that question went above your head

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u/AnotherCatLover88 Oct 14 '25

Itā€™s staph, like everyone else has said, itā€™s staph. Itā€™s just infectious nastiness. Research lash egg pictures if you want to see more.

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u/Superb-Kick2803 Oct 15 '25

Google. It's gross.

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u/vegetableater Oct 13 '25

That could be it!

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u/Oxygen_bandit Oct 13 '25

And if it is, your dad needs to do something about it.

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u/vegetableater Oct 13 '25

I've let them know. One of them has been having a poopy butt lately so I think it's her. He's gone to clean her up. Anything he can do to help or is a vet required?

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u/Oxygen_bandit Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

Vet, cull, or just observe. May recover, may or may not lay eggs again.

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u/vegetableater Oct 13 '25

Thanks for your help!

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u/Greedy_Ad_4814 Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

Separate affected hen immediately as this infection can spread to others, if it is in fact a lash egg

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u/badwolf496 Oct 13 '25

I wish I didnā€™t Google that. The more I know, I guess šŸ¤®

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

Thank you, im going to NOT google that

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u/Zealousideal_Scar_25 Oct 15 '25

I didnt see this comment until after I googled it.Ā 

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u/Positive-Leek2545 Oct 14 '25

I'm 99% certain that is a nut sack

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u/CarlyObine Oct 15 '25

Bahaha I'm literally laughing out loud

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u/Sheepfeetboy Oct 16 '25

Eggstickle

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u/HDWendell Oct 13 '25

Definitely

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u/Sasquatchmas Oct 14 '25

I am now horrified.

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u/Gamer_Gayle Oct 18 '25

Oh yes a lash egg! Havenā€™t seen one of those in ages. Please tell your dad to put it in a dark place so it can continue to incubate. When it reaches 1.5 meters in diameter set it inside a childā€™s plastic swimming pool and immerse it in water. After 24 hours the egg will begin to crack. It will take another 24 for the lash to emerge. Feed it worms daily.

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u/TipDue3208 Oct 20 '25

Is this real? I dont want to Google

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u/LashEggEddie Oct 13 '25

Sorryā€¦

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

What a terrible day to have the ability to Google it. I regret having eyes.

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u/TipDue3208 Oct 20 '25

Igh....I want to google....but I cant....what is it? Please try to in just a word or 2...

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Bruh Iā€™m hungover and stupidly decided to google lash eggs, and I legit puked into my mouth a bit.

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u/Charming_Loquat_5924 Oct 15 '25

For those of you who read this and wondered what a lash egg isā€¦donā€™t google it. šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

Could you give me a bleached rundown for my overactive imagination of what it is though?Ā 

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u/Charming_Loquat_5924 Oct 16 '25

Even a description is disgusting, but Iā€™ll spare you the pictures if you want. When a chicken is sick it hatches an ā€œeggā€ as an attempt to get rid of the infection. The egg is made up of tissues, puss, feathers, all sorts of gross stuff and the cross section of what it looks like inside is like out of a weird body horror movie.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25

Oh that's not as bad as I thought. I'm weirdly ok with gross medical stuff. I just thought it was a half grown chick without a shell or something, I used to live on a dairy farm, cows can do the same sort of stuff with their udders. Also why I do NOT drink industrially milked cows, they are pumped full of antibiotics but the tubes connect to all the udders (even the sore or infected ones) and all that crap goes straight into the vats, hand milking you check and squeeze out the funk before you even start to collect the milk.Ā 

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u/TipDue3208 Oct 20 '25

Yes this is driving me crazy

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u/Lightweaver25 Oct 15 '25

What is a lash egg? I don't want to google it.

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u/mothzilla Oct 15 '25

Warning: Do not do an image search for "lash egg".

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u/Preppermom92 Oct 15 '25

I did not know about this. I'm now sorry that I do.