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Redheads Need More Anesthesia than Others
Natural redheads need 20% more anesthesia than other people report scientists. "Redheads are likely to experience more pain from a given stimulus and therefore require more anesthesia to alleviate that pain." said Dr. Edwin Liem of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Anesthesiology is still very much a mystery to scientists, and picking the right dosage that keeps someone out without killing them is still very much an art. Studies like this will help them determine how anesthesics work and why.
They're just more pissy, thats all. Blondes go under real fast because theres not as much brain to put asleep.
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Do they need 20% less stimulation? :)
so that's why I spend so much on alcohol...
I am a redhead who is dating a redhead, and who has red haired relatives all over my family tree. I can tell you that redhead pain sensitivity is no more or less than anyone else. You can believe what you want, but just remember: If you tell an irishman he can't handle pain, he'll cut his own balls off to prove it, then he'll shove them down your throat and stomp your ass into a mudhole so you remember. Believe me.
Then again, these were scientists from the University of Kentucky. Who better to study redheads, than rednecks?
On a serious note, this doesn't surprise me too much. Redheads are well known for having extremely sensitive skin. Ever see a redhead with a tan? If you have, it was a rarity, most redheads go straight from pasty-white to fire-engine red; freckles (another sensitivity based reaction to the sun) are more common among redheads than folks with locks of other colors. So it seems logical that this would extrapolate to other areas of pain and sensitivity.
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You wrote: "since most Europeans can trace their ancestors back to a very small group of perhaps a dozen Ice Age survivors."
I know this is the case for my family (german/danish). We've traced our family line on both sides to a brother and sister who barely avoided a slow cold death by crossing the Alps into the area around Cannes.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
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It's A Fact Girl: It's A Fact.
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Scott: Hello. When I was a little girl, if a child was born with red hair, she was considered irreparably evil and drowned as a witch. It's a fact!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Redheads Need More Anesthesia than Others
What section is this, ChrisD's lurve tips?
I am a Karma Library.
Keep in mind that you'll have to make the tranquilizer dart 20% heavier to make Carrot-Top less annoying
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Patient: Uhm - WHAT are you doing?
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Doctor: Well, Miss Everhart I need to verify that you're a 'real redhead' before we proceed with the operation to ensure proper dosage
The Pjammer Chronicles --
Man, imagine if you would've kept going and traced back to your GRAND-parents...
>and that topical gel stuff they put on your gums before the injection? That actually CAUSES me pain.
:-/
Five bucks says it feels like your mouth is on fire wherever they apply it. I find it useless, too. Can't they find a better way to inject than to go an inch into the joint in my gums? I can't imagine there's anywhere else it could hurt more... And they make sure your muscles are as as stretched as possible for maximum pain (ok, they don't do it on purpose, and I could always lay off the candy).
"Don't worry, it just feels like a mosquito bite". Yeah, like a mosquito bite on my crotch, maybe.
Carbocaine sounds great, but with previous experiences with other prescription pain killers, I'm wary to try it.
Last major dental surgery was having wisdom teeth removed. After waking up, I puked lots of blood (I'm told I was a real winner for the amount -- and the first in the last while) and was given Toradol for the pain.
After two Toradols I sat in a seat for a while trying to catch my breath while my heart was racing (probably a stupid thing to do -- next time I'll get my ass to the hospital instead). So again, I lived with the pain, and used that super-duper tylenol they prescribe you instead.
Maybe I'm just an over-sensitive, over-complaining loser, though. Or it could be the fact I haven't been in hospital for anything serious for a couple of decades. No, the first one sounds more realistic.
Thanks for the suggestion anyways. I'll ask about it...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
What do you call a smart blonde? A golden retriever.
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So, being Kevin Mitnick's sidekick on a radio show qualifies her as brainy? Will it work if I put Anna Nicole Smith on a show with Bill Nye, The Science Guy? Did you notice that there aren't many redhead jokes? That's because the last guy to tell them got killed.
How ya like dat?