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[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

[Australia] 62% of patients used nitrous during labour

I've never heard of nitrous being used during labor, only during dental procedures. It seems it fell mostly into disuse in the US, with the emergence of epidurals.

We see this type of gaslit form of presenting information way too much. It criticizes those who criticize, for having some projected nefarious motivation.

People did a normal thing, by pointing out possible impact tot he environment from an action. Those preforming the criticized action, react by gaslighting people into thinking they only did it malicious reasons, stemming from not taking women's pain seriously.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

for having some projected nefarious motivation.

I know this one. It's because we don't have effective pain management anymore. They keep doing these "people are mad <some almost useless thing for pain> is being taken away" articles. I assume to drum up support for these poor options and ignore people are back to 1800s style medicine in this area.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

never heard of

N.B. this is australia so it may be a regional thing that you never heard of it. It's way, way, WAY less dangerous to breathe some N2O2 than to have a spinal injection, so I'm all for it.

A few bottles of laughing gas is literally nothing compared to all the coal power plants being built all around the world TODAY. GTFO with this nibbling at the margins "but muh environment" bullshit.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure, but coal power plants are kind of whataboutism here and doesn't mean that nitrous impact doesn't exist. In the hospital setting, it seems that reclaiming nitrous, instead of releasing it into the environment, might be a feasible option as well; It would just costs more money.

Yes, despite nitrous being widely used for labor in the US, 30 or 40 years ago, then falling into disuse for epidurals and largely forgotten. For some reason it seems still widely used in Australia. I do think the risks of epidurals is under-rated, and long term problems glossed over, but on paper they are super safe. Nitrous seems well documented to be problematic, where many in labor can't handle it. Personally, for dental procedures, I can't handle it myself. From my exposure at the dentist, nitrous is fun and all, and seems great for parties, but when the dentist gets to doing his thing it makes me freak out.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nitrous is some fun shit.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More likely it's to try and stop kids using it and littering the bottles everywhere.

Bad tactic, the young cry about climate change but will do the least to prevent it. They expect mummy to take care of everything.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

climate change is caused by removing the rainforests and covering everything with concrete .. farmland that is overused

and we could talk about how disposable society is retarded as well

this kind of talk however, is just retarded

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're halfway right. This is silliness. But climate change is a result of the planet warming since before people were around, if you believe the scientists we are currently emerging from an ice age

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

if you believe the scientists

not anymore. they have proven to be tools of the elite to hide truth