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Ananova:

Australian medical alert: 'Don't put ice cubes up bottoms'

Australian medical experts are warning would-be first aiders of the dangers of using ice cube "enemas" to revive friends from drug overdoses.

Government officials say putting ice cubes up the rectums of unconscious people has no physiological benefit and can even lead to seizures and stroke.

According to Paul Dillon, research officer with the Australian National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, some people have been attempting to insert ice cubes into the anuses of friends who have become unconscious after taking the party drug GHB in the mistaken belief that it will revive them.

But GHB overdose expert David Caldicott, of the Emergency Department of Royal Adelaide Hospital, said the practice is potentially hazardous.

Quoted in the gay community newspaper the Sydney Star Observer, Dr Caldicott said putting an object into the rectum of someone not expecting it could cause a "vagal" reaction, the Herald Sun newspaper reports.

This occurs when the vagus nerve, which slows the heart, is activated.

On top of the blood pressure-lowering effects of GBH, a vagal reaction can potentially stop blood flow to the brain. The matter should not be treated as a joke, Mr Dillon said.

"An overdose in a club is embarrassing enough for the person involved," he told the Star Observer.

"The sight of the incapacitated person with their pants around their ankles having people inserting ice cubes is beyond humiliating and potentially dangerous.

"Some of the people doing this should know better and should not pretend to be trained medical professionals." The procedure could also result in charges of sexual assault, he said.

Another reason to get "No Entry" tattooed on your arse:D

Man, can you post a link to this article?

I've always gone with EXIT ONLY for my own butt-cheeks!

The only thing I want between by legs that's cold and wet is a beer when I don't have a cup-holder! Other than that, keep that stuff away!!!!

well thats interesting, who was the chump that started telling people they'd be revived if they shoved ice up their ass?

putting ice up the bum to help an overdose??

i know that putting ecstasy up ya bum has a faster effect than if taken orally, but ice as a cure up the bum... well thats just plain weird.

there you go canucker... just don´t overdose GHB in a gay club in Sydney, and your Aussie adventure will be just fine.

OK, I won't
but thank you for letting me know.

Check...ice up wahzoo, BAD.
gotcha. :)

Rectum? Damn near killed him!!

I wondered the same thing...
:lol: bwahahahahaha!

I wonder who dreamed that up o_o

God I busted up laughing here at work, and all my co-workers think I finally lost it. :)

I'm assuming this is still safe as long as you're fully conscious and not under the influence of any drugs, correct?

no ice in the balloon knot huh... shouldn't be a problem, but thanks for the heads up.

Well.. there goes my grand plan for a drink called the "Anal Attack"

The thing I don't get is - why the heck people would think to do this anyway? I mean, I have seen people passed out on every substance, and I never thought to stick ice up their ass.

Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon!

im glad that the times i passed out on ghb nobody put ice cubes in my ass...i would have been pissed.

MuadDib: I dont know the link but it was on Fark about a week ago.

Sorry guys, I saw it on a news website, forgot to take the URL down.

@_@

ice cubes? there?

no.

I'll have to remember this. My wife and I have used other objects/body parts but while completely concious and agreed upon.