Grandma got into urine therapy, we can’t convince her otherwise

Grandmother was not touched by her mind in the literal sense of the word. That is, she is mentally healthy. But our whole family is worried about her cognitive functions.

When she retired, she started watching TV all day long, and they didn’t show any kind of obscurantism. Grandma is very interested in politics and health.

Like any elderly person, and my grandmother is already in her eighties, she has some age-related diseases.

They existed before, but then she was treated normally. Something got sick – she went to the doctors, took tests, underwent examinations, and then did what the doctors prescribed.

This, in my opinion, is the normal behavior of a person who is sick. If my grandmother had had a medical education, then I would have allowed self-medication.

Our second grandmother is a doctor by training; she worked in a hospital all her life. So she herself already knew what kind of illness she had and what to take from it.

And then, if it was something narrowly focused, then she also went to her colleagues, and then took the medications they prescribed, and did not let everything take its course.

And the first grandmother I’m talking about doesn’t even have a close medical education. She worked at school all her life.

So she retired, watched enough of all sorts of nonsense on TV and came to the conclusion that doctors are fooling us, prescribing unnecessary drugs that are made from no one knows what.

Like, doctors have nothing to do except make incomprehensible diagnoses and prescribe harmful medications. It’s just for fun for them.

Grandmother adheres to exactly this opinion. She foamed at the mouth to prove to us that doctors do not prescribe the drugs that actually cure, but those that they are told to prescribe, supposedly this is some kind of worldwide conspiracy.

And grandma found a way out of this situation. She decided to be treated with folk remedies, and the most effective of them is urine therapy.

The fact that she sleeps on an aspen log so that her head doesn’t hurt, drinks a decoction of nettles and brushes her teeth with soda, these are still little things. And when you have a cold, drinking tea with raspberry jam is something I myself respect very much.

But she now treats her chronic and emerging ailments not with medications, but with the help of urine therapy. There are drops, and compresses, and some kind of squeezes.

She came up to me and asked me to empty the baby potty into her bottle and not into the toilet. Like, children’s “raw materials” for treatment are the most useful.

Naturally, I didn’t pour anything into her bottles. I still didn’t have enough to deal with this nonsense! So grandma was very offended by me!

“I’m not asking you for money, but just the contents of a child’s potty!” Do you feel sorry for your grandmother?

Yes, it would be better if she asked for money, at least it somehow fit into her head. And then she got some stupidity into her head and now she’s promoting it to everyone.

Now it is impossible to go to her house; there is a heavy ammonia smell. She is always evaporating something, insisting, boiling. That is, it is known that it is boiling there, but it is not always known why.

Last month my grandmother stumbled and twisted her ankle. Her ankle was swollen. Her whole family told her that she needed to go to the hospital and take a picture. What if there is a fracture? The age is already decent.

So grandma refused. She made some kind of potion of her own, wrapped it around her leg and began to wait. Her swelling subsided, so she generally believed in the omnipotence of urine therapy.

– You said it was a fracture, but I did the lotions and that’s it, now I can walk normally! – Grandma rejoiced.

So we just assumed. And there could be a sprain, and with it, even without auxiliary means, sooner or later the swelling goes away.

But we were never able to convince grandma. Moreover, she now goes and, at every opportunity, advises everyone on how to be treated.

My son caught a cold in kindergarten and his nose was clogged, so my grandmother came running with homemade drops. It’s clear what she made them from.

– So what? “I got rid of my runny nose in two days,” my grandmother was offended by my refusal to use this “medicine.”

Her parents have already given her a suggestion, and I have told her, but my grandmother still believes that she is the one who is right. Now she doesn’t go to doctors, she gets treatment herself, and produces medicine herself.

You can’t enter the apartment; she constantly smells because the whole apartment stinks. That’s terrible!

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