Another reason to fear visiting the dentist

[zeitghost]

Patient Sacha Rumaner dies after allergic reaction to mouthwash | Metro.co.uk

[OwlHoot]

Patient Sacha Rumaner dies after allergic reaction to mouthwash | Metro.co.uk

I wonder if it was hydrogen peroxide mouthwash - Gives quite a belt if you're not expecting it, and probably not a good idea to swallow much.

[SueEllen]

Patient Sacha Rumaner dies after allergic reaction to mouthwash | Metro.co.uk

FFS no need to get hysterical.

This woman probably ignored the warning signs when she had a minor reaction to mouthwash (or stuff with the same ingredients) before - it's not uncommon. Particularly as lots of people aren't sure of the symptoms.

For example in my own family one of my sisters' has currently minor reaction to nuts. Instead of telling everyone she ignores it, when in fact there are others in my family who now have more serious reactions started of like hers.

[OwlHoot]

Dunno.

The stuff in my dentist's is blue. ..

That's the normal inoffensive stuff they have in a cup on the raised platform thingie by the chair. But sometimes, when they're serious about wanting to kill every germ in your mouth, for example after drilling a hole for a filling, they hand you a cup of truly noxious stuff that tastes like drain cleaner smells and foams and fizzes alarmingly in your mouth, and up your nose and down your throat if you're not careful.

That's the peroxide mouth wash I referred to, and it seems quite plausible someone could have an allergy to it, or swallow a load if a stupid dentist or their assistant didn't warn them first.

[hyperD]

2 H2O2 → 2 H2O + O2

Water and Oxygen - nay bother in the mouth. Frothtastic!

[shaunbhoy]

Another reason to fear visiting the dentist

You mean on top of the fact that you have over 600 teeth zeity?

[amcdonald]

Watching "Marathon Man" put me off dentists years ago