Preface
"If you don't obey again, I'll take you to get an injection"
No matter how "naughty" a child is when he is a child, as long as he hears the name of "ass needle", he will become a "three-good student" in seconds.
Do you remember the "powerlessness" that was quickly pierced by a cold needle and caused severe pain?
In the days dominated by "butt needle", what we are most afraid of is a cold and fever, once the medicine has no effect, a butt needle Dafa can make you "refreshed", cheap, affordable and convenient at the same time can also make you "cry dad and call mother".
This kind of rough ass needle is rare these days, and the reason for the disappearance is a bit surprising!
The "embarrassing" problem of ass needles
The efficiency of butt injections is really not picky, whether you have a high fever or vomiting and diarrhea, butt injections can make you eliminate all diseases at the "speed of light", and it does not cost anything.
The only bad thing is that it is too much of a toss in the butt, and this pain is a nightmare feeling for both children and adults.
We can only passively accept the torture of butt needles, because the medical conditions were not good before, especially disposable medical supplies were scarce, and a syringe had to be recycled.
A needle may "abuse" the whole village, and the glass syringe is the "heirloom" of the clinic doctor, because the medical equipment is too expensive.
In the past, township clinics were in short supply of disposable syringes, not to mention the scarcity of disposable infusion bags.
The general cold and fever is to use butt injections, minor illnesses are not worthy of intravenous drips at all, and infusion with medicine is reserved for people who need it more, so the reason why butt injections are popular is actually limited by conditions, and we can only accept it helplessly.
However, the buttocks needle has a very embarrassing problem, it can only be pierced on the buttocks, and the traditional intramuscular injection must choose a part with a large amount of muscle, and the most suitable place is of course the buttocks.
It's really embarrassing to take off your pants at every turn, especially when women are injecting drugs, which is not acceptable to everyone.
The privacy of the butt needle is too poor, and it may not have been a big problem in the past, but it may be criticized now, and the poor privacy may be a major reason for the reduction of the butt needle.
There is also a high risk of high efficacy of buttocks injections
It is well known that butt needles are effective, but they also pose high risks, especially in the absence of disposable syringes.
Due to the lack of disposable medical devices, many syringes were recycled in the past, and it is understandable that the conditions are a little more difficult, and there is no awareness of one person, one needle, one device.
The problem lies in the disinfection of the utensils, if the utensils are disinfected in full accordance with the standards, cross-infection can be well avoided, and there will not be too many problems with safety.
As long as it is in the hands of a qualified doctor, even a recycled syringe does not pose a high risk to the patient, and the problem lies with the doctor.
In the past, many barefoot doctors in the countryside had a weak sense of hygiene, and there was a fundamental gap between the medical level and the big hospitals in the towns, so it was difficult to be foolproof.
Some syringes are only rinsed with boiling water after use, but their practical boiling water needs to be boiled continuously, and simple rinsing will leave a great risk of infection.
The short stay of boiling water in the appliance cannot provide continuous high temperatures, the temperature drops rapidly, and the killing of harmful germs and viruses is limited.
The safest thing is to directly put the utensils into boiling water and continue to boil, almost no germs can resist such high temperatures, drain the water and store it in a sterile environment.
Such complex disinfection and storage is not something that every rural doctor can do, and it is indeed not difficult to boil water, but it is still difficult to create a stable "sterile environment" for rural medical care.
The glass syringes we have the impression of are usually put in small aluminum boxes by village doctors, and the sterilization of this small box may only be known to the doctors themselves.
There is no need to worry about hygiene when switching to disposable syringes, but there is a more serious risk that people don't know about.
The principle of butt acupuncture is to inject drugs directly into the muscles, once the infection is caused, it will be very serious, and it may affect a person's life in serious cases.
The theory of this injection method is very reasonable, but it has high requirements for disinfection and doctors, and it is so popular simply because of the lack of medical resources, but now there are sufficient medical resources.
With more stable and safe injections, fewer people would choose high-risk intramuscular injections, and few people would be able to tolerate the severe pain of butt injections.
The pain of the "butt needle" is unbearable
Intramuscular injections are among the most painful of the many ways to ingest the drug, with human muscles buried deep beneath the skin and fat, wrapped in layers and firmly attached to the bones.
In addition to humans, other mammals are constructed in the same way, and this structure protects muscle tissue from being easily damaged.
Although muscles are a symbol of strength, the strength of muscles is very low, and when you buy pork belly, you will find that red meat is easy to cut, but fat meat is difficult to cut.
The strength of the skin is much higher than that of the fat, and the strength of the tissue decreases from the outside to the inside.
Intramuscular injection is a direct breakthrough of the skin and fat to the muscle layer, directly touching the most sensitive part of the tissue, which will cause people to have a very severe pain in an instant.
The pain of the injection is not the same as that of ordinary trauma, the injection is a relatively stuffy and severe pain, and it gradually increases with the injection of drugs, which is unbearable.
Compared with our normal body temperature, the temperature of the drug is at most room temperature, and the touch brought by the drug is cold, which aggravates the pain.
The cold, sharp needles and cold liquid are slowly injected into the muscles, and everyone who has experienced it knows how painful it is.
Although painful, this type of injection has an advantage that other injections are unmatched.
Intramuscular injections are still widely used
Intramuscular injection is highly portable, and the drug goes directly to the muscle, so that the drug will take effect quickly, and the main thing is a "fast".
This is ideal for areas where medical conditions are lacking, such as those used by field expedition teams.
If there is an emergency, such as an open wound infection in the field, or a sudden high fever that does not go away, it is too slow to use oral medication in such an emergency.
Medium to large open wounds in the field are extremely dangerous and can lead to life-threatening infections if not treated carelessly, and the best safe way to deal with this situation is to rinse and disinfect and then inject antibiotics around the wound.
In the field, it is not possible to go to the hospital in the first place, so you can only use this quick method.
At this time, the "butt needle" that we usually scoff at has become a life-saving medicine, and the sooner the antibiotic is injected, the lower the risk of infection.
Therefore, many emergency medical kits for field use will have syringes and portable antibiotics, of course, it is best to read the instructions when using them, and you must also master some relevant skills in ordinary times.
epilogue
Although intramuscular injections can be portable and funny, it is still necessary to pay attention to hygiene, not to cause greater infections due to treatment, and it is best not to let anything touch the needle before piercing the skin.
Now that the hanging bottle has almost replaced the butt needle, the pain of the infusion is much smaller, it only punctures the skin and blood vessels, and does not have to hurt the muscle tissue, but the time is too long, and the portability is also lacking.
References:
On March 23, 2022, the official media China Engineering Science and Technology Knowledge Center released on the Toutiao platform "The once popular "butt needle" has a quick and cheap effect, why is it missing now? ”
Baidu Encyclopedia's information about "intramuscular injection".
Baidu Encyclopedia's information about "intravenous injection".