Those silly bracelets

[Suezoled]

Girl behind me is 9 weeks pregnant. She has been sick for several weeks; nausea, etc. Her husband bought her the healing bracelets, made of cloth with a thumb-sized ball inside it. The ball digs into your wrist and the cloth holds it there. The girl said it hurt at first )on her wrists), but her nausea is gone.

Coincidentally, the worst part of pregnancy is supposed to pass at about 12 weeks.

I'm thinking:
1.) placebo affect
2.) her nausea passed coincidentally
3.) endorphin release from pain at her wrists.

Thoughts?

 

[Suezoled]

oops... well... that anti nausea property sure didn't last long...

 

[hgc]

oops... well... that anti nausea property sure didn't last long...

Are you saying that in the 18 minutes between you first and second posts, she got sick or nauseous?

 

[Suezoled]

that be so.... short term effects, I'm thinking.

 

[arcticpenguin]

You have to wear those a while to build up an effective dose, 3 weeks or so.

 

[hgc]

that be so.... short term effects, I'm thinking.

Hush! You're jinxing it.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

You have to wear those a while to build up an effective dose, 3 weeks or so.

Well, at least until a person gets into the 2nd trimester of pregnancy...all nausea will suddenly vanish, and all the pain on top of the nausea will have been worth it...

 

[Yahweh]

oops... well... that anti nausea property sure didn't last long...

Perhaps she just didnt have enough faith in Jeeeeezus...

 

[arcticpenguin]

Some people, such as my sister, have bad morning sickness for the entire 9 months.

 

[Suezoled]

Well, she still wears those bracelets, and she still runs to the ladies' room all day. This in itself is a feat, as the ladies' room is halfway around the building.

...meanwhile the girl next to me is trying to figure out how to spell "mastectomy."

 

[Goshawk]

They're called "acupressure bracelets", and Quackwatch has them listed as "questionable devices".

NZ skeptics website recounting how the Institute of Naval Medicine tested them.

http://www.skeptics.org.nz/SK:VIEWARTICLE::waDeptTOC.1,A761

Each subject was tested on the motion challenge on four separate occasions, with at least a week between each. The results? The hycosine had an effect. But Sea Bands? No better than the dummy remedies. In fact, it emerges that the US Naval Aerospace people had tested Sea Bands back in 1982. The results then? No benefit.