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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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My father in law actually created a brush type tool to clean a grill, but has no chance of losing bristles. http://grillbros.com/ I know he has several hundred of these to sell. They work well but he definitely needs a distributor.

Looks awesome. You sold me.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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post #338

My father in law actually created a brush type tool to clean a grill, but has no chance of losing bristles. http://grillbros.com/ I know he has several hundred of these to sell. They work well but he definitely needs a distributor.

Awesome. You should tell your father to double down on this news. This is marketing gold.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Isn't a metal wire highly visible in x-ray? How doctors miss that?

Also, aren't BBQ bristle brushes magnetic? Wouldn't a simple magnet over the spot have exacerbated the pain and triggered a closer look? Not that you'd have known to use a magnet to test it, but now it's certainly something that could be considered on a checklist of cheap/free things to check before more expensive/time consuming/invasive procedures are initiated.

If they were magnetic, a CAT scan would rip it out I imagine

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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We usually barbecue in the evening and when finished put the grill in the grass, leave it there for a couple of nights. Because of the dew everything on there gets soaking wet and becomes easy to remove. With, for instance, grass or weeds. No brushes, no waste.

You clean your grill with grass? And the next time you use it, your food doesn't taste like lawn?

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Abdominal pain is notoriously hard to diagnose. Always get a second opinion if it's serious.

Doctors seem to be unwilling to admit that they don't know something.

True enough. Doctors unafraid to admit not knowing something inevitably impress me the most (to the point of staying their patient even after moving to the other side of the city):

* A young GP who pulled out a medical book in front of me to consult it.

* My dentist who told me he’ll perform the extraction if I want him to, but that his colleague specializes in it and will do a better job.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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"Kevin Gallant, of Summerside, P.E.I., had part of his small intestine removed after he swallowed a bristle from a barbecue brush. "I was very ill, probably as close to death as you want to be," he said from his home in Summerside, P.E.I. "The barbecue brush bristle had started to move, so it was trying to come through the wall of my small intestine. So I was told I was very fortunate that they found it, because it w…

Gotta get rid of that encrusted carbon and iron. Human bodies don't deal with those elements half as well as they do short steel spikes.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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> Kinder Surprise (sucks, but somewhat understandable) I still don't understand this, the explanation I have read is that it's due to the inner plastic being totally hidden, but the potential to swallow a Kinder Surprise whole is very low, unless your kids are _really_ large.

Swallowing is not the problem, it's getting the plastic egg stuck in the back of the mouth or throat, blocking the airway.

If you can get it in the front of your mouth you're already doing better than your peers and Darwin is waiting impatiently to endow you with your highly appropriate award.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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I reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immense). There was a very tiny piece of something stuck in my thumb, which I was able to remove but not able to inspect very closely as it was pitch black outside and I was working with…

ouch! I could actually feel your pain.

No joke.

Re: Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Wow, I'm feeling pretty paranoid now.

Don't worry too much about this, there are a dozen other things you don't know about that get close to killing you every day ;)

You make me smile. The sort of worried, am I going to die today smile.
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