No, you essentially cannot get COVID from bed sheets. Five years of global surveillance has not produced a single confirmed case of COVID-19 transmitted through bedding, and surface (fomite) contact is estimated to account for less than 1…
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Yes, you can get an STD from protected intercourse, although the risk is much lower than from unprotected sex.
Continue reading →No, stomach acid cannot break down solid metal objects in any practically meaningful way.
Continue reading →Yes, amblyopia can be improved in adults, but the honest answer has two halves.
Continue reading →No. Sulfamethoxazole is not a recommended treatment for chlamydia, and it should never be used as monotherapy for genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
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Yes, tension can be negative, and whether that is physically meaningful depends entirely on the material and the sign convention.
Continue reading →Yes, you can chew a small piece of citronella leaf without harm, but citronella is not a food and its essential oil should never be swallowed undiluted. The plant sold as citronella, Cymbopogon nardus or C.
Continue reading →Yes, weed can be laced with meth, but the practice is rare and physically awkward. The chemistry works against it. Methamphetamine hydrochloride is water-soluble and dosed in the 5 to 30 milligram range.
Continue reading →Yes, emotional pain can contribute to death, but it is rarely recorded as a standalone cause; it raises mortality risk through suicide, stress cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular events, immune disruption, and behavioral collapse.
Continue reading →Yes, you can break open a capsule pill in most cases. The exceptions matter, and they hinge on what is inside the shell rather than the shell itself.
Continue reading →Yes, you can get emphysema from secondhand smoke, but the risk is much lower than from active smoking and depends on cumulative dose, timing, and susceptibility.
Continue reading →Yes, you can get a scar on your eye, and the eye scars in five distinct places: the cornea, the conjunctiva, the retina, the sclera, and the eyelid. The cornea is the most consequential.
Continue reading →Yes, you can buy human breast milk in the United States, but not as an ordinary regulated food. Sale is legal in most states, yet milk bought online or directly from a seller is not subject to FDA food-safety oversight.
Continue reading →Yes. Twins can be born days apart, but only in a narrow anatomical setup and almost always after a very preterm delivery.
Continue reading →You can get rabies from an opossum in theory, but the real-world risk is extraordinarily low. No human rabies case in the United States has ever been attributed to an opossum. Any mammal can carry the virus, and rabid opossums do exist.
Continue reading →Tendons can regenerate only in a narrow, partial sense; most adult tendons repair themselves by making scar tissue, not by rebuilding perfect tendon.
Continue reading →Visible light alone is not an established cause of skin cancer in humans, but the question can visible light cause skin cancer has a qualified answer: intense blue and violet light may contribute indirectly to skin damage.
Continue reading →Yes, you can eat chicken noodle soup when you have diarrhea, provided you have stopped vomiting and can keep fluids down. Most adults can start with 4 to 6 ounces per sitting once 2 to 6 hours have passed without vomiting.
Continue reading →Yes, blood can leave the body without a uterus, but it is not a menstrual period. Menstrual bleeding requires an endometrium that thickens under estrogen and then breaks down when progesterone falls.
Continue reading →Yes, it is possible, though extraordinarily rare, to die from an orgasm, almost always because sexual climax triggers a cardiovascular event in a person already at high risk.
Continue reading →Yes, you can drink alcohol with most eye drops, because alcohol does not chemically react with the liquid in the bottle or with the surface of the eye.
Continue reading →Yes, but usually not from the alcohol molecule itself. Drinking too much can produce a rash through at least six distinct routes: acetaldehyde buildup during flushing, direct mast-cell degranulation that triggers hives, histamine and…
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