The Lemonade Enema

wglb | karma 64679 | avg karma 7.38 · 2019-03-24 19:33:51+00:00

"Making you grateful for modern medicine."

0db532a0 | karma 331 | avg karma 0.84 · 2019-03-24 19:44:04+00:00

Not just a lemonade enema, but even more perverse: An enema made with lemonade thrown up by a nurse.

moron4hire | karma 11137 | avg karma 1.67 · 2019-03-24 19:51:53+00:00

I don't think that was what that meant. I think the "throw up" part was in reference to the administering of the enema itself.

codewritinfool | karma 568 | avg karma 2.52 · 2019-03-24 15:00:02

I don't believe that is what "throw up a clyster" means. If you google it, that particular phrasing is not uncommon to this story. To me, from context (I have no special knowledge), "throw up a clyster" means to mix a clyster, not regurgitate it.

benj111 | karma 3842 | avg karma 0.84 · 2019-03-24 20:22:17+00:00

I'm guess its like knocking up (a clyster)... Which doesn't mean getting it pregnant.

0db532a0 | karma 331 | avg karma 0.84 · 2019-03-24 17:37:18

It was a joke.

rossdavidh | karma 19091 | avg karma 4.77 · 2019-03-24 20:11:06+00:00

I am so not clicking on that link.

_eht | karma 802 | avg karma 2.09 · 2019-03-24 20:26:44+00:00

It’s OK, you’re not on Reddit anymore.

trhway | karma 7273 | avg karma 1.26 · 2019-03-24 20:11:33+00:00

Sounds like it allowed to avoid dehydration. Probably not the worst way of doing it [IANAD]

benj111 | karma 3842 | avg karma 0.84 · 2019-03-24 20:19:08+00:00

I think the first comment in the article explains it.

Its basically an IV, getting in fluids when they can't be administered orally.

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IdiocyInAction | karma 612 | avg karma 2.58 · 2019-03-24 20:20:35+00:00

> Before the Suicide Act of 1961 it was illegal to kill oneself.

That's certainly interesting. I wonder if it carried the death penalty..

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LifeLiverTransp | karma 223 | avg karma 0.35 · 2019-03-24 21:18:25+00:00

Avoid rectal ginger ale. Horse trader secrets should not be applied to patients.