A Boy Ate 180 Gummy Melatonins For Lunch. This Is What Happened To His Brain.
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Gummy yum yum 😋😋
I was here
Gum yum fun yum
So true bestie I love taking a bite of my melted together vitamin gummies every day!
yes
Among the first to be here
That mother couldn’t have possibly thought her son *wouldn’t* accidentally eat a whole bottle of melatonin gummies when she *deliberately mixed those into his bag of normal candy* . I’m sorry, but she knew what she was doing, and took him to the hospital out of guilt and to cover her ass.
exactly
I’m wondering what she thought was going to happen.
No wonder the dad never came back with that milk
I mean, what else could she do?
Oh right, she could have used the thing. You know, the thing. It's an ancient set of strategies invented thousands of years ago by early humans and developed throughout the generations. Do you know what it's called? It's called _T A L K I N G_
_".. to cover her ass"?_ I think that such words should be not be used on a public forum, friend. No offense, but there are plethora of words available for the sake of explanation, don't you think?
*EDIT - PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU ARE WEAK HEARTED OR EMOTIONALLY VOLATILE; THERE ARE A LOT OF EXPLICIT AND INSULTING COMMENTS AHEAD, READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, THANK YOU.*
Imagine being a 14 year old boy, abandoned by your father, then sent to the hospital with a mega dose of melatonin by your mother.
Karen's
Yeah, the guy definitely should’ve taken the kid with him when he bailed on his crazy wife.
Couldn't be me.
@@NicholasAllen333 facts this shit sad
And she’s a Karen too
Honestly, this kid needs to be adopted by an actual caring set of parents.
Sorry I'm not from America. Doesn't hospital have a right to report it to the police?
@puurfectlysplendid
Have the right? Do you mean need to report to to child protection services? By law hospitals need to report of suspected child abuse but child protection services don't ethically do their job
@@SelenaY.1331 I see. Thanks for your information
Caring parents would zero out sugar and control kids diet having no junkfood in house or allowed
@@user-il1nx9bl9zthats not caring lol thats overly strict, moreso than the military lmao even the marine corps get a bountiful feast of junk food after completing “the crucible” (or did, not sure if they do still)
A caring parent would LIMIT sugar and LIMIT junk food consumption. Having a treat
Bro really got hit with the ‘dad going for milk’
Edit: I just removed the crying emoji because I disliked seeing it as there has been an increasing amount of saturation when it comes to the iconic crying and skull emojis which makes everything cringe.
Ong 😭
WTF 😭😭😭😭
LOL
Nah the disrespect😭
You realize he makes up the details of these cases to include memes because he can’t actually include the actual personal details, right?
If you're looking for some quiet, it's important to remember that ear plugs are generally cheaper than:
-Melatonin gummies
-Medical costs from poisoning your own child
-Legal fees
And even worse, possible death.
Or parenting your kid right
Noise canceling headphones too, if you really wanna splurge.
or just asking your kid to quiet down
Yes, but you get board and three meals a day free in jail!
Really starting to think making these medicinal substances into gummy form was a terrible idea.
It just goes back to keeping any sort of medication out of reach of children. But this is more like she tried to poison him.
Oh it 100% is. What a terrible mother.
Why because some idiots treat them like candy?
No they are great
This is not the first time we've seen a gummy overdose on this channel.
@@GrammarSplaining To be fair, that other mother didn't understand english. She wasn't being terrible deliberately like this Karen.
After watching 90% of this video, i feel im closer to becoming a doctor than to knowing what happened to HB
Fr bru like I’m jus tryna know what the hell happened ☠️
Exactly I hate these kinds of videos..
😂
Disliked this video
You got a lot farther than me. I stopped after a minute and came to the comments looking for a hero
No one going to talk about how this "Mom" committed attempted murder?
it's not murder because it wasn't pre meditated. attempted manslaughter is the phrase ur looking for mate
@@nsag1109 murder doesn't have to be premeditated. that's first degree. second and third can be spur of the moment
Attempted manslaughter
more like gross negligence
Ah yes, I found the comment that's going to bring out all of the keyboard lawyers. XD
Reminds me of “all kids deserve parents but not all parents deserve kids.” So damn true
Little did we know Karen was going to figuratively live up to her name ☹️
@@ntwalipat2 Also for good Ole dad, clearly he saw that she wasn't a good parent but still left his son with her. Honestly I couldn't imagine being that selfish. Plus the audacity this women had that she actually thought about risking her son's life because she didn't want consequences as if they weren't gonna find out anyways
You think mega dose is a reference to mega pint? Lol
Parents who neglect their children by choice and or stupidity should be jailed
Ch8ld serial killers exist. Some kids don't deserve parents.
This mother is a prime example of a “Karen”
I feel bad for the boy being poisoned by his own mom like this. But as you’ve said it’s a good thing there weren’t any real long-lasting side effects from this.
First
Ima take the second best thing and be second
You!
She's probably the KC he mentions almost every episode
Wait your mother? Still, you’re right that it’s a good thing.
I’ve had major depression for 26 years. I’ve needed melatonin to help me sleep. I can’t remember how long I’ve been taking it. The other night after a bout of insomnia, I felt myself getting sleepy when it started to get dark. This has… continued. I’m flabbergasted. I thought I’d have to take it for the rest of my life. And maybe so, I still wake up a lot at night, which sustained release melatonin helps with. But it’s amazing that my brain just… started working. It might not last! But it’s been nice feeling what a typical body is supposed to feel when it gets dark. Bodies are amazing!
This reminds me of my husband’s brothers ex-wife. She was an awful mom, has nothing to do with the kids now at all but she would put NyQuil in their bottles. One day she slipped up. She said it out loud what she was doing in front of my husband’s grandma, my husband’s grandma cussed her out and actually did call CPS on her. The kids were taken away, given to my brother-in-law. She never tried to get them back, she doesn’t visit them. That was eight years ago. I would cut off my right arm for my son, I would Bruce Campbell my arm before I ever allowed any harm to my son and I feel most mothers are like that.
My aunt used to trick her kids and I into taking NyQuil by telling us it was candy. Can't blame her, we were animals. 🤷
Things that never happened for 200 please
Wtf that's not even bad y'all are seriously weird.
@@IrateMoogle you were abused. There's no need to stand up for your abuser even if you love her.
@@rltw2753 nothing has ever happened you're so right. The world is a perfect and beautiful and logical place and everything that makes sense to you specifically is all the happens.
Honestly the thing that was damaged the most was the trust between mother and child. I would be heartbroken to find out my mother tried to literally poison me just to get peace and quiet. If you feel like you can’t communicate parent to child what kind of relationship is this?
Even if they weren't melatonin, the fact that the kid was willing and able to eat 180 gummies is itself disturbing, as sugar is even more poisonous than melatonin.
she didnt mean to poison him. It was meant to make him sleepy for a while. The boy poisoned himself. But she should have seen this coming. So she's careless at most. Hopefully just that
@@abraruralam3534 she didn't mean to poison him just drug him
And if you can't accept and live with what having a child is and what it brings with it, don't have kids. She is a bad mother.
@@abraruralam3534 not careless at most, careless at the very least. You're not a mind reader to know what her intentions are
First we had 150 gummy vitamins for breakfast, and now, we have the sequel that we did not deserve, but the one we needed.
thank you karen
What about not making medicine look like food. I'm waiting for the next episode.
I love America for this reason.
Now, we must eat 210 gummy vitamins for dinner to complete the trilogy.
What's for dinner
Next a boy eats 200 xanax for dinner
Mother: why is my kid so hyper
Also mother: I'll just give him gummy bears for lunch
Single moms in my experience tend to just treat their kids like pets and give them treats to shut them up. This is of course extremely bad parenting because it spoils the child and the mother demonstrates inability to enforce boundaries and rules.
@@paulhancock9942this is extremely true, singlemotherism is a degenerate disease, the U.S. just got ranked #1 in THE WORLD for amount of children raised by single mothers. single mothers produce the degenerate and dangerous society we’re in now and that’s backed by stats there’s no debating
Seems like the father abandoned the mother, for good reason, not the kid. The dads don’t get their kids.
The USA has the highest rate of single motherhood in the world, by a landslide.
When I was in elementary I got into a Flintstones gummy bottle and ate most of them. I went to bed and woke up at 4 am not being able to sleep. Later at school I started to have severe headaches and my vision was almost black and white
( like being blinded by the sun and looking around after).
Anyways I’m still alive so just a bad trip I guess.
It was the Flintstones childrens multivitamin tablets for me- ate about 20..kinda tasty, actually..didn't get quite the symptoms you did- just the craziest colored pee ever. Bright Dayglo Orange.
Holy shit I have HPPD and that sun thing is crazy. Every time I look at a lamp I see an afterimage when I look away. Drugs are dangerous lol
Omgsh, I also remember being about 5 yrs old, sitting watching cartoons while eating half a bottle of Flintstone vitamins . All I remember was sitting down for lunch after that and getting really sick I threw up all over.
I was better the day after.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one. I did that when I was about 5. Only, that was back in 1980 & they were iron fortified. As soon as my mom found out she called poison control & out came the ipecac syrup.
Did you make it?
This sort of (what is essentially) intentional poisoning by caregivers makes me sick. I was somewhat hyperactive as a child (which I now know is due to ADHD), and rather than actually have me seen by a professional, my parents decided that the best way to deal with that during trips was to almost knock me out with allergy medication. I'm thankful simply that I don't have any long-lasting effects from that, but the fact that it happened at all still infuriates me.
To parents with "problem children": your children are human beings with rights, not annoyances that you can "shut up" whenever you need a day off. I guarantee that trying to communicate with them and finding strategies to help them deal with problematic behavior (and seeking professional help if all else fails) will have a better outcome for both parties than the potential permanent disability and death that comes with abusing medication.
Wise words here
My parents did the same. They would have me take benadryl in the morning and at night. Now i cant sleep like a normal person, i have to take a sleep aid for the rest of my life😢
Similar thing but fortunately for me my mom believed in homeopathic shit. 0 long-lasting (or short-lasting) effects :)
BTW I don't think the behaviour is even problematic. It's just ill-suited to modern society. Back in the neolithic the ADHD peeps were the ones who did really well. Check out Dr K he's done lots of videos on ADHD that I found pretty helpful.
I'm frankly horrified tbh. be parent instead of relying on pills.
@@artimiss1238 jfc I'm so sorry that happened to you.
"He was fed up with Karen's nonsense"
Aren't we all?
His father was
Sometimes I can't blame the guy for going out to buy milk and never coming back...
Karen was evil after all.
Should’ve taken his son with him though
Try living with one. It's pure Hell!
I hope this kid finds a family that would never abandon or poison him and he can make a real recovery from the shit he's gone through before turning 15.
I’m glad I watched this. I was just about to sit down for a gummy lunch of my own! THIS CHANNEL SAVES LIVES
Look, make sure you don't eat candy for lunch. Wait, OH OK don't eat too many vitamin Supplements! And don't trick your kids with melatonin! Uum still, don't eat candy for lunch.
Sir gummy is not one of the food groups. Please eat normal people food.
@@draconbacon6395 remember the 4 major food groups, candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup
@@alechachman9599 Yes sir, the 4 food pillars of every reasonable person.
@@alechachman9599 where are silica gel and lava lamps ?
"A boy had shitty parents, this is what happened to his health, mental and physical."
I remember having this brand of melatonin gummies because my sleep was weird and they did work i think. But one time, i took more then i should have, because the texture was phenomenal. It definitely wasnt as big a dose as 180 gummies; probably not even 20, but the thought that i couldve ended up in one of your videos is scary. And also, the fact that this was deliberate because she couldnt handle a kid being a kid is horrible. I hope hes doing better and the mom wisened up on how to actually be a parent.
I can’t imagine a mother doing what she did. His issue was absolutely caused by her. I would question her ability to safely take care of children including her own if she thinks something like what she did was OK.
I remember seeing someone online eating a bunch of melatonin gummies as a challenge, I like how this is basically referenced by that
dont care
I think he *rest* in peace
@@haridstevens1224 ok shane
@@LyfeFPS be a good astalfo
@Don't read profile photo okay we won't
I really hope there is someone in this boys life who unconditionally loves and values him because both his parents have failed massively at that.
lol 180 likes dude 180 gummies
No. The son and father failed the mother not the other way around
Y'all wouldn't kill baby Hitler? 😗
@@dennisraeimakers5218 I’m curious, how did you get that from this video ? None of us really know anything other than the fact the mother intentionally gave her son a shit load of over the counter medication against his knowledge.
We don’t expect the minor to know how to behave without example. That’s why their parents are responsible for their well-being, their criminal actions until they’re developed teens and are financially liable for any actions they make take that lead to a civil suit until they finish high school/or take another avenue of leaving school without graduating.
Lol I thought it was hilarious that the narrator gently said “The father used to take a lot of shit for even being near the mother, and eventually he just couldn’t take it any longer.” Like somehow the author of this video knows their life story intimately LOL.
@@dennisraeimakers5218 what an insane troll comment
When I was a kid. My mom caught me eating Flintstones gummies. She asked me how many I had and I said 10. What a dumb mistake. That did not go to well for me
(I had 50)
Ooooof
immunity for life
@@satirism now that I'm thinking about it. I usually only get sick for just about 1 day a year for a single day.
Even when I had covid it only lasted 2
@@cameronzeferino6938 lol thats not how vitamins work
Thank you for including references!!!
Poor kid, both parents failed him so much he ended up at the ER: and similar accidents being on a growing trend is incredibly scary.
So, what have we learned?
*Drugging your children is no substitute for discipline, no matter how desperate you might be.*
It's like those parents who feed their kids Benadryl so they're too wasted to be active on long flights; not only is it a blatant misuse of medicine, but it's also not being given for their benefit, and it also puts them in a dangerous situation, albeit a different one to the case seen here. What if the plane gets into difficulty and has to perform an emergency landing? All of a sudden, you've got a potentially dangerous situation, but the people you should care about are drugged up to their eyeballs with depressants and can't react to the situation properly.
This is a real danger. I've been on 17 commercial flights which spiraled out of control and had to make emergency landings.
ALL pharmaceuticals are poison. No one should use them themselves. Giving them to others is criminal.
Drugging kids is just one of the many benefits of popping them out get over it
my mom drugged me with antidepressants when i was 13 becasue i was bullied at school, after a while it felt bad and it took me a while to convince her to stop making me take them, now i still get bullied at school but its better to feel then to be drugged
good thing my parents never did that. not that it would matter dendryl doesn't make me sleepy
Remember, for sleep, 2-5 mg of meletonin works best. The more you take, the harder it is to sleep. The less you take, the easier. SMALL SMALL amounts
Yup, only when I absolutely need to I’ll take half a 3mg capsule. Works like a charm.
"Typically in the daytime, when the sun is out and it's bright outside, people aren't sleepy."
Me and my lack of a circadian rhythm: "...Wait, WHAT?"
Seriously bro that stuck out to me too. I was like nope not me.
Maybe you should try going outside for a little in the mornings?
I remember buying melatonin supplements cause I heard you could potentially increase your odds of lucid dreaming with them. I remember the first night I took them, I had the wildest, most ridiculous dream. And then after that night it never happened again no matter what I did. Wagering a guess I psyched myself up the first time and it was more of a placebo. But man, I still have memories of that dream 10 years ago.
Go for mugwort. Lots of people use that one to lucid dream. It's a little harsh on the liver but not gonna kill you
You may have had sleep paralysis. It happens to a small percentage of people. I've taken melatonin three times in my life. All three times I had sleep paralysis and it was the most horrifying thing of my entire life and I too will never forget those "dreams".. trapped, screaming outloud, a figure standing over my bed. It wasn't until the third time that I looked it up and found out about this potential side effect. Never again
@@Ena48145 what... im sure they would know the difference between ridiculous dreams and sleep paralysis lol
yeah I get more vivid dreams but in general I always have vivid dreams. I take 10mg to 20mg for sleep. I can't tell if it actually works but I do notice I feel different when I wake up from sleep. I need to get more and I messed up drinking multiple redbulls and coffee over a 24 hr period I am about to crash asleep finally after almost 48 hours 😴
I always lucid dream when I take melatonin.
I think your final conclusion is too optimistic.
This is a mother who - at best - gave her son an unsupervised dose of medication so he would shut the hell up, then proceeded to withhold that information from medical staff when she was about to be found out.
Call me cynical, but I think there's a much bleaker explanation for why the kid never returned
Was the mum not criminally prosecuted? She tried to kill her son?!?!?
I'd be surprised if someone didn't at least call CPS, it's their job.
Right and nor would I if this Is the moronic take u have. Same reason people who are drunk addicts overdosing don't call rescue because of the stigma
@SEGASammyTheWhale every women has the right to post birth abortions, we dont want to ruin womens lives, abortion should be legalized at any point during the 18 years the adolescent clump of cells is dependant on the mother.
Me, after listening to a lot of true crime podcasts: "He's probably dead in a ditch, and she's moved to another state under an assumed name."
Bro did everything in his power to stretch this video out to the 10 minute mark
And you stayed and watched the entire video. Stay mad.
@@ArashiKageTaro I most definitely did not 😂 I watched the first 3 minutes
@@ArashiKageTaro What a weird thing to get aggressive over 😂
I enjoyed the medical explanation tho. It is scientific and it gives more information on the subject. Ideal for med students like me 😆
@@lilyung3203 nerd
I love your videos so much. This is the type of content I really enjoy, I don't have all the answers, even Google can help fill in the blanks but non of that compares to someone who actually knows and has studied this stuff.
this kid is a legend... one day he will tell his kids "Yep my mother poisoned me with melatonines at a young age and my father left for the milk."
Eminem 2.0
@@konstantinrebrov675 I'm pretty sure he abandoned the kid, nothing about court was mentioned losing custody, he just left the kid. If the mother is a psycho which can be evaluated for court purposes, a father CAN win custody. It's true that in two healthy individuals if the kid is too young they'll stay with moms which is biased against both fathers and mothers (pretty sure Karen didn't want the child either, she wouldn't mind the father getting the child, she wouldn't have so much noise to cancel it out by melatonin gummies)
It's 2 parents that hate their kids AND eachother but the father abandoned them and the mother was poisoning her kid to shut him up. This has nothing to do with courts patriarchal standards of thinking moms are inherently better at parenting and more with father abandoned mother regrets not having an abortion
@@landothepeepeehead guminem
Poor kid
@@konstantinrebrov675 ....because the father abandoned him, he said that in the beginning lol
I'm glad that HB seemed to be fine after this, but appalled that the mother didn't face consequences. She endangered her son because she didn't want to put the effort into actually being a parent.
Well first of all, the medical staff respond to the medical side of the case. They will inform police if they Know that there is a crime to be investigated, but how can the doctors Know that the son didn't just take gummy melatonin because he thought it was normal candy? A lot of all kinds of poisoning can be through malice, but they can also be accidents, and a teen eating candy looking stuff really leans towards the accident-side of the spectrum. Especially because the mother didn't admit guilt in ER.
@@mirko241 I know that, I wasn't blaming the medical staff at all. Doesn't take away from the fact that the mother got away with it.
@@mirko241 I feel like if you have any suspicion at all you should call the police. They handle whether something negligent happened, the ER just has to identify potential.
That’s single mothers for you
Also a reminder that the details in the story are changed for identification protection and entertainment. This might not have happened just be a compelling set up for the information.
Great video, thanks Dr Anthony!
Found you through Mr. Ballen. Love it! Melatonin is horrible and people think it's the best! Appreciate the content - thanks!
That mother knew what she was doing and should have received child endangerment charges, and or abuse. As you stated in the beginning of the video, she was tired of his hyperactivity and substituted the melatonin gummies. She knew with the anticipation of him eating them because he thought it was candy gummies. SMH
Yeah, she wanted him to shut up and fall asleep. She freaked out when he fell motionless on the floor and wouldn't respond.
> should have received child endangerment charges, and or abuse
I mean, main thing for a court case is - prove it. Mom says the kid just ate a bunch of melatonin gummies on his own. Is that beyond reasonable doubt?
@@SimonWoodburyForget if she were to put headphones on she wouldn't be able to hear her son getting into trouble, or she would but claim she didn't. “A boy played on his own while his mother had headphones on...here'what happened to his eyeballs...”
Remember that these stories aren't real! :p
@@SimonWoodburyForget If you need training to know that you shouldn't drug a child just because you don't want to deal with them, then you shouldn't be allowed to live amongst people.
I once drank a quarter bottle of liquid melatonin, didn't even fall asleep, I just sat there for at least an hour feeling funny. Didn't have the desire to move or anything. Just sitting there in my chair, staring at my wall, on way too much melatonin.
Melatonin doesn't help me at all. It just makes me drowsy but doesn't actually put me or keep me asleep. I'm not a fan.
Hellll ya sounds fun
I ate a handful, at least 20 melatonin gummies probably more. When i had woken up 15 hours later i couldnt move my legs so i had to crawl out of bed and downstairs. Took 3 hours for me to be able to stand up. Gonna be honest i havent felt different after that but i seriously thought i had overdosed then.
This happened to me with cough syrup when I was a kid. I remember just feeling extremely funny for for a bit.
@@masterodisguise2983 I did the same bro I started hallucinating really bad 🤣🤣🤣
so a mother literally poisoned her child and dismissed it as an "accident"
hospital staff should've called child protective services, that woman is not right in the head
@Brah I mean yeah, but with melatonin gummies, you’re gonna eat what maybe 1-4 of them based off the dosage? What kid eats 1-4 gummies out of a huge bag? Of course a kid is gonna feast on at least a 1/4 of the bag…
Yeah. Child endangerment at best, attempted murder at worst.
@Brah she willingly drugged her child. But it’s not her fault he ate more than she thought he would, that’s not a valid defense.
@Brah She replaced her son's regular gummies with melatonin gummies knowing he eats a lot of candy. That's at least a child endangerment/child abuse charge.
@@lanzi7912 she belongs in jail
The real question is, who's kid is eating over a hundred gummies a sitting to begin with!
Easy, meet some kids.
me
?
I’m a grown adult bodybuilder & I still have issues to where I have to finish an entire bag of candy in a sitting 😂
What kid dosent😭
suddenly im immensely more appreciative of how my mother only gave me 1/8th of these minty, round tablets of melatonin if i had trouble sleeping. To this day I've yet to eaten a whole one
I appreciate you taking the time to create and publish these educational videos spreading awareness, thank you, and keep up the good work!
"One day, dad told HB he was going out to buy some milk, and HB never saw his dad again."
@@HeidenLam But i thought women were the one's initiating 80 percent of the divorces?
Final wake up call 👉👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary]🔥🔥
Based comment. Make more like these, positive and noncritical! The only type of comment that has a positive effect ❤
I think mom spiked dad's milk as well... 😳
Young parents especially don't always understand how melatonin works. I had a parent I worked with mention to me a while back about her daughter acting strange and especially sleepy. After asking the mom if she did/gave anything different with her daughter, she mentioned they tried a single melatonin pill the night before. I asked how big the pill was (1 or 2 mg being normal child doses), and after she checked, she found the pill was for 10 mg! She had absolutely no idea she was supposed to cut the pull into quarters for her child! It does state on the warnings not to give to children under six, but who reads the warnings, anymore? One pill means one dose, right? That's too much for most ADULTS, much less a 4-year-old girl!
Fortunately, it was melatonin and not something like a pain pill, which had to be stated after my supervisor found about this and was demanding to know why I didn't report the mom to CPS right away. Young mom, gave kid ONE PILL, she didn't know the dose was too high. It's not like this is something they teach in school, and it's far from parenting 101. Thankfully, the girl was back to normal within a few days, but I felt so bad for that young mom. She really was doing what she thought was right.
Edit: For those saying I should have called CPS anyway and I'm as horrible as the young mother who gave her kid ONE melatonin (NOT like the mother in the story, which people seem to be getting seriously confused about) - It's easy to be judgmental when you're not directly involved in the situation and even easier to be judgmental behind a keyboard. I guarantee you're not quite so aggressive when face-to-face with real people. Maybe grow up a little and learn some compassion and stop being the judgmental narcissist behind a keyboard.
When it comes to chemicals I prefer to exercise caution with them, even if it's something I'm familiar with (eg. isopropyl alcohol for, you know, cleaning).
Still a far cry from the mother in this video, I still can't really believe it. Even if the melatonin did nothing, that woman still tried to deliberately drug her son. I would be pissed if that happened to me
Not reading the instructions aside, why the hell do they make tablets that need to be cut in quarters?
@@shaz_1466 might be because they are easier to manufacture and it saves packaging. It's pretty normal in Germany to have tablets with grooves in them so as to cut them more easily.
@@shaz_1466 I think it's probably just the molds used for manufacturing tablets in general... 😅
Nobody talking about how his dad left for milk?
Thank you I've been trying to get this point across forever ❤
she should have 100% seen this coming being that she dumped the whole bottle into the bag of gummies. like, you think he's only gonna eat one? also, i can almost guarantee that his mother didnt tell him what happened. i have no doubt this kid was still loopy leaving the hospital, so he probably barely even remembers being at the hospital, let alone remembers the doctor talking about what happened. Furthermore, she was hesitant to declare what she had done to the doctors, waiting until they were about to draw blood when she panicked and realized she had to come clean before they found out. I don't trust that she was honest with her son about how she effectively enabled her son to just about poison himself. I also don't know why child services weren't involved and how she managed to dodge an assault charge.
100%. Apparently a child doesn't have the right to bodily autonomy, the right not to be poisoned by their parents. Even in the cases where people were prosecuted for poisoning kids with melatonin it wasn't because they put the child's well-being in danger but because they didn't have the parents' permission to do so. It's ridiculous
when it seems accidental sometimes they instead of calling cps will do education. ie a parent giving baby vegan food and it loses weight, if the parents honest and when told it's the diet they express horror and regret like an ignorant parent would in that situation the pediatrician will educate them sternly then say its on record and threaten to call cps if they dont return w baby in 1 wk and it hadn't gained weight. for example.
It could've been easily presumed an accident /ignorance.
But I agree minors are the only class of persons who have virtually no rights especially federally. Not even the ones that adults value most like freedom of religion, bodily privacy, etc. Funny because it's a class everyone is a part of at one time.
These stories aren't real they're (usually, not always) a dramatised version of a combination of case studies he knows of. He's said this before. Idk how people still haven't realised this when half the cases he describes would realistically have no written record of half the things he includes to make the stories more relatable, and are also filled with obvious jokes. A mom called Karen and a dad who left to get milk and never came back? Why would that detail be in any case study report of a minor melatonin poisoning even aside the obvious meme reference? Yeah cases like this happen and that's what he based it on but you're acting like this particular case is real and some justice wasn't served
I don't think the melatonin put him in the hospital.
Each of those things has 10 calories of sugar.
He wolfed down 1800 calories of high glycemic index carbs at one sitting.
His brain was slammed by a glucose baseball-bat.
@@-danR IDK about that…Maybe a bad sugar crash/hangover, especially since he’s young. It’s was the Melatonin that put him in the hospital.
"typically, in the daytime, when the sun is out and it's bright outside, people aren't sleepy"
sir, you didn't have to come at me so hard.
I read this as he said it
Yeah, dude needs to speak for himself on that one. We're not all daytime people out here!
Creatures of The Night Rise Up!
The concept of 'siestas' objects!
I know sunshine actually makes me sleepy. I can't live in California, all that sun made it hard to even open my eyes. I would just squint until I gave up and closed my eyes. Not good while driving, made it impossible there. I'm also more awake at night naturally, going so far as to become a day sleeper when I have no demands on my time for being up during the day. I need the sun about half the day, I have noticed I miss it if I haven't seen it in a while, but even then it's from a safe distance, like indoors.
I feel like a chubbyemu video isn’t complete if he doesn’t get to say “emia - presence in blood”
Wow. Your normal videos don't usually contain deliberate child abuse. That's horrible. Glad the kid survived and made a recovery!
The story is a teaching device, not about someone in particular
The mother didn't intend to abuse so it is not deliberate.
@@jonhohensee3258 poisoning a child to manage behavioural outcomes is definitely deliberate
@@jonhohensee3258 i would call purposefully drugging someone without their knowledge deliberate abuse
@@plank3543 You can, but putting it in such simplestic terms is misleading. This mother simply wanted her child to be quiet. She gave him something that she thought was harmless. She was stupid for loading up the bag up with the melatonin gummies. But to call it "deliberate abuse" is ridiculous.
You know it's a good start of the day when Chubbyemu uploads a new video.
" he thought as he clicked play...
@@christopherbaby3842 no he just hopes bad stuff happens to people because then the UA-cam guy can explain it
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I've taken melatonin 3 times in my life, the first two trials didn't work out well for me. I've always had trouble sleeping, but I've also often been on poor schedules which meant I'd often have 8 hours at most from the moment I laid in bed (not asleep yet, just in bed) and when I'd need to wake up. This, unfortunately, meant the melatonin would make me oversleep, I'd miss alarms and wind up late for things.
This third time is what I'm currently doing, I'm on night job, working from 6pm to 2am (or there about), I take the melatonin at 3am, and am out by 4am. It's done wonders for helping me get to sleep and stay asleep, a problem only amplified by the fact that I'm sleeping during half of the day.
I did make sure to get my melatonin from a independently verified and tested brand, so my 3mg of melatonin is only 3mg.
When parents play doctor with their kids. "Son presents to the ER due to parental stupidity..." 🤷♀️
Thanks, Dr. Bernard. Be well!
and parental negligence*, she could have easily just raised her child and she never would have felt the urged to drug him because he was too "hyperactive".
@@hungrymusicwolf Yes, it was parental neglect, or rather *negligence* that brought him to the ER.
@@Master_Petes_Theater Good catch, and fixed.
@@coronerelf Yes, it was deliberate, although I doubt she meant to kill him. She was lazy and self-absorbed and too "busy" to seek professional guidance.
"when the sun's out, people aren't sleepy" - You, sir, a lucky person. I will happily lay down at 2pm for a 2-3 hour nap any day of the week because all my energy just disappears around then, every day.
Have you checked your thyroid levels? I had the same problem and turns out I was severely Hypo. (Low function of the thyroid)
It's worth looking into!
I do this too! but it’s just the depression, not my Thyroid LOL
@@SensationalBanana yes! i came to say the same thing!! my levels were so high when i was experiencing the same symptoms.
Quit eating carbs/grains/starches for lunch
That's normal no? I also get sleepy after lunch
If I have school in the morning and go home to have lunch an have no classes after, usually I'm really tired so I just fall asleep right on the couch
That brand of melatonin gummies you showed, blurred, Natrol, works so well it’s uncanny.
After handling gummies one day for someone else, I licked my fingers after and I was falling asleep less than ten minutes later… involuntarily on the 4 minute drive home. Never bought another brand but that one again for her. If anyone needs a decent brand… my god. No other variation worked as well for her.
Those are the only ones I use as well, they work crazy good
lmoa nice
Riiiiiiiight 🤦🏼♀️
@@earlesa ?
@@earlesa ?
The amount of Tryptophan in turkey isn't enough to really make you that sleepy, it's more so the fact of eating a lot of foods (usually various types of foods) that your body is wanting you to slumber so it can focus it's energy on digesting the foods.
Tryptophan has to be taken without any other amino acids for it to make you sleepy and there are a lot of other amino acids in Turkey so it's not really having any real effect other than perhaps making your sleep a bit more satisfying.
Yeah, it's sympathetic vs parasympathetic nervous system stuff. Aka rest and digest.
Imagine giving a child 180 gummy melatonin and thinking to yourself that it's a good idea
As they say.... "Woman☕️"
@@dirtywater7576 Aint nobody said that
@@rareuses you clearly haven’t been around a lot of women. They do a lot of things that only women could do, good or bad.
@@monkeyman9856 I AM ONE 💀
@@rareuses that makes sense. Some of you aren’t too self aware 😮💨
When I had a heavy sleep disorder about twenty years ago, I was ultimately prescribed melatonin by my neurologist and I had to come back frequently to adjust the dosage. It still baffles me that the same hormone that used to require me frequent visits to a neurologist, is now sold over the counter and that people eat them like (in this case literal) candy.
MELATONIN IS SAFE KID, ANTI AGING DOCTORS TAKE 200MG A DAY + KING OF ANTIOXIDANT AT HIGHER DOSAGES + X3 STRONGER THAN VITAMIN E AND C
And they really do taste amazing. Better than many candies in the store.
In New Zealand it's prescription only. Watching this video I can see why.
I'm appalled that this is the case, in Germany, where I live, as well. It used to be presciption-only, but now we have the silly candy and spray-stuff in stores.
Medicine is wild sometimes. Like, a lot of very serious medications are available in various candy forms now
I've realized my favorite videos of yours are any that deal with the brain. At first i thought it was the vids on psychoactives, but its whenever its about the brain. Its just so interesting.
Thank you for the tip, mr. Chubbyemu! About to eat a bowl of gummy melatonins for lunch
Make sure to add milk!
Apparently if you sprinkle in some Benadryl, it’s good for your immune system 💕
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Sleep well my friend
Good night fellow eater
Wow, my son had brutal temper tantrum until 8 or 9 years old and not once did it occur to me to just sedate him. This turns my stomach.
Respect to you for being a good mother and human being.
Oh well, you can always try it with your next child. Can't come up with all the good ideas on your own!
@@B61Mod12 🤣
Not even cough syrup?
Well now you know melatonin works
went from wanting to know what happened to hb to getting a doctrine lecture
Great explanation
“Dad told HB that he was going out to buy some milk, and HB never saw his dad again.”😂
I love how all the comments are all so serious and then there's just this, Its amazing because I thought the exact same thing
LMAOO
That's actually heartbreaking...
Funny, how they try to blame the Dad (The lead up really has no connection to what happened), but if the mother was nutty enough to replace her kids gummies with medication then it sounds like the Dad had a reason to get the hell out.
LMAO
It's alarming that anyone would think that drugging your children would be ok. Anything taken in excess can be harmful, even an over the counter supplement.
Do you mean drugging them without their knowledge?
My wife had a friend that would NyQuil her severely non talking autistic kid every night. So she could fuck her boyfriend while her husband was out at work.
But you know, she’s a good mom and shit.
Yeah my wife isn’t friends with her anymore
Great channel!! The flick of the hair when you say something shocking/important is your trademark😂😂😂
Wow, what a responsible and good mother.
As a pharmacy technician, if you have ANY questions regarding medications at all whatsoever, find your local pharmacy's phone number and ask for the pharmacist. They can answer almost any medication question. Don't do google searches because it's not always going to be very accurate. Some of them will literally sit on the phone for you to read every single medication you take, just to make sure that what your asking about doesn't cause any interactions.
Other than the Covid vaccine
@@esotericleigh showing how you know nothing about science
Yup. I've learned that lots of doctors don't really know much about the medications they prescribe. A doctor prescribed me tramadol even though I have epilepsy. Luckily I already knew about how it lowers seizure threshold.
they just google it too, you know
@@jobdylan5782 I worked at CVS, they have a built in program for correct info to look things up because google isn't always 100% accurate.
I use to take Melatonin to sleep. I saw this and thought "holy shit". One supplement pill was enough to knock me out all night and struggle to wake me up in the morning. My roommate couldn't even get up after trying one.
its more effective at lower dose for sleep, about 0.3mg
I also never knew that the actual amount of supplement varied from tablet to tablet. Now though, it makes sense as to why one tablet either does nothing or completely washes me.
Whenever I take melatonin, sure it will knock me out, but I get an awful 3-4 hours of sleep and I won't be able to fall asleep again
Lmao and then there's me who took 400 mg Quetiapine and 5 mg Melatonin just to sleep.
@@danielverlander5025 ive heard melatonin works different for some people. Personally, melatonin is an absolute lifesaver because it helps me get decent sleep, while everything else ive tried taking for sleep assistance hasnt worked anywhere near as well.
Wow! So a teacher at school would possibly wind up in prison because they gave a kid melatonin, but, it's okay for the school to keep transitioning a secret from parents.
What a mother she is
Did this guy's dad actually use the old "going to get some milk" excuse or did emu just put that in there lol
Tbh i was finna ask too cause if so his dad literally didnt come back with the milk
@@zacharyblaicher1891 he didn’t mean it literally
We all know he went to get cigarettes
The only things that are real in this video is the science & statistics he provides as well as the links he lists in the description. Everything else he “just put in there” lol
And her names Karen 😂
can you or have you done a video on the pineal gland,i believe you will bring me new insight. Love your channel.
chubbyemu always gets me with the classic memes, subtly too XD
I'm surprised nothing seemed to happen to the Mom. Did she at least get yelled at for risking her son's life? What if he had died? I kind of feel like part of her wanted that to happen...
Great vid anyway ^^
Well her name is Karen so that explains it.
@@breanntheartist1989 She probably demanded to see the Court's manager.
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I would've wanted her to be confronted by the police because what she did was illegal.
It's quite possible this was an attempted murder or absolute Munchausen's with no empathy or concern about what could have happened. How many mothers get annoyed at the kids playing video games thing? This was no mother this was a demon and why daddy bounced. If only he could have taken his son :(
I've never really slept, even as a baby, and prescription sleeping meds give me problems so melatonin supplements have been a life saver for me. I've had weird dreams since childhood so taking melatonin doesn't make a difference for me. I just hope people don't start abusing it to the point that it has to be highly regulated because then I will be screwed.
Same here. Later down the road found out it was because of Narcolepsy. Sleep study is very important. Good luck thank you for sharing.
I don’t sleep cause I’m always high on METH!
Just stack up on melatonin just in case! I don't know if it expires though. Most likely not though. In the UK you need a prescription for it I believe. So worst case even if it becomes regulated you would easily be able to obtain a prescription as an adult with a valid reason (as you have).
@@Synky I have a valid reason for all of my plethora of medications yet some of them were so abused by others that I have to beg and plead with insurance/government to get them filled, despite my actual doctor being happy to give me the refills.
@@isaacmettle based
Dad going out for a pack of smokes and never coming home. Perpetrator named Karen. Giving a kid whisky in their bottle to settle them down. This story is a conglomeration of cliches. I love it
I watched this video because I wanted to eat a shit ton of melatonins. At the end when you said “take care of yourself, stay well”, I liked that a lot man. Thanks, I think I will stay well
Also nice episode. Really unique cause it was more informative about the dangers of melatonin in general rather than analyzing this incident which didn't have much to offer but was a great source for making a video on thesubject keep up the great work bro
danger? of a hormone produced naturally? where a kid ate 150x the normal dose and suffered brief “confusion”????? hHahsha
Yes, they started giving more detail and I was afraid this would be another drawn out story that seems so popular in videos these days. But, was pleasantly surprised by all the good info!
Woman accidentally poisons son.
"It's not my fault."
Actually, Karen...
She wouldn't be Karen if she owned up to it now would she.
@@hungrymusicwolf truuuuuuuuuue
My kid is fine Karen said
Like the Disney villain
“It’s not my fault
I’m not to blame
It’s my son who is to blame
It’s not my fault
If in gods plan
He made my son so louuuddd”
time to go do this thanks for the idea
At the store one day, Karen came up with an idea. "I'm not buying any candy."
Viewer diagnosed with insomnia here: just wanted to talk about melatonin in my own experience.
For me when I can't sleep I take 10mg or for me 2 tablets, and it helps me sleep really well through the night. Additionally I've taken 2 types of sedatives for sleep prescribed my my psychiatrist. Be careful with that stuff and how you manage it because unfortunately when I was taking one at a high dose I ended up seizing. And stopped that medication. I constantly switch on and off sleeping medications to account for how to get through the night and very much suffer from insomnia to this day without them. Nevertheless be responsible with your medications, similar to this kid do not take more than what is recommended for it's intended purpose. Even if it's just a little bit more your sleep schedule will be majorly thrown off for a long period of time. Fortunately I do not talk from experience I just learned about this precaution long ago
I feel like people should not take melatonin unless they have sleeping problems. There's no point if you can sleep fine since you are just causing an imbalance anyways.
Greg moment
dawg you can’t have seizures from melatonin
seizures aren’t caused by nervous system depressants like sleeping meds. they’re caused by an influx of too many electrical signals to the brain
10mg seems like a huge dosis... in my country you can only get melatonin in 1,5 and 3mg tabletts (and you should only take 1...)
The only thing that pisses me off about this story is that this so-called "mother" is serving no jailtime for this, and she probably still has custody. Unbelievable!
The mother usually gets custody.
same
@@NateBThere are so many cases where they're clearly the abusers and still get to keep the kids. It's insane.
That's life, live with it.
This is probably not the original story. He often changes aspects of real cases to keep patients anonymous. She may not even exist.
It's awesome that you happened to mention Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder, if not by name. Unfortunately, it does have a small prevalence in individuals who aren't blind, but among us sighted sufferers of the disorder, it is an orphan disease. It doesn't make enough money to treat us, so studies or treatments are not made.
I knew that melatonin supplements were contraindicated for me because I take an SSRI, but now I know why -- melatonin supplements sometimes also contain serotonin, & so could lead to serotonin syndrome. Thanks!
HP's dad: Son, I am going out to get some milk.
HP: OK
*proceeds to never see his dad again* (usual phenomenon)
Presenting to the milk store, where we are now
now he suffers from hypopateras, hypo for "too little" and pateras for "dad"
i really hope this is just something he said cuz the real reason was too personal...
Milk store: business is booming recently
Hey, if women can kill kids in and/or out of the womb the least a father can do is abandon them.
I used melatonin to assist with sleep a few occasions I couldn’t sleep. I am a shift worker and bed time is around 3:30 to 4:00 am. It would work somewhat but I would never get good sleep. I would feel tired and groggy the next morning. To me what has worked better was making the room as dark as possible and listen to calming atmospheric music.
Gonna be honest. When I worked a factory job I had to wake up at 4am, start work at 5am, and work until past 5pm. 3 days in a row. The best thing to get me to sleep? Weed (only a few hits, my lungs can't afford for me to be completely stoned) + half of one or one whole melatonin. Slept like a baby. Tried edibles, but they straight up don't work on me and can take hours anyways, so I chose to vape it. Much faster effect. Stopped working that job though because of the holiday weeks. They worked you ragged and I couldn't take it mentally. After I left that job, I was able to quit using both of these, but I know many people have to have these jobs and have to self medicate basically.
I take melatonin and homemade Valerian root tincture (20 drops)... I fall asleep like a rock.
Honestly me. Anime ASMR
i have emotional trauma, don’t question it
@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 down horrendous but whatever makes you sleep
I just recently find out that melatonin has a short half life. I take 30mg a night and have no problems the next morning. But everyone is different.
This is the math questions we have all prepared for
4:41 thank you for this clip. it really did help.
I took melatonin pills for several years, especially during university when the stress severely impacted my sleep. I never had any particular problems or even "wild dreams" while taking them and they did help me to fall asleep quickly most of the times. However, one night that I took melatonin my heart started to race and beat strongly, I was sweating and incapable of sleeping until 4:00 AM. When I finally fell asleep I woke up at 7:00 PM.
I wasn't sure that the melatonin was the culprit because I was very stressed those days so a couple days later I took another one to sleep and this time it was orders of magnitude worse. My heart was beating so loud I could feel my body shaking with each beat, sometimes it suddenly stopped or slowed down and I felt like I was having a heart attack and was punching my chest to "fix my heart or something". In any case I was still in my bed trying to sleep but every time I was about to finally fall asleep my heart and my breath felt like completely stopping and my body heated up like a wild fever before a huge adrenaline rush made me awake and my heart racing one again, over and over and over. I called and ambulance because I thought I was going to die and they took me to the emergency room, but they didn't find any particular problem. For the two following days I didn't sleep even a single minute and I couldn't get totally fixed until my doctor prescribed me lorazepam for two weeks and I still took several months to completely recover a nice sleep routine.
I still don't think that the melatonin pills were the culprit but maybe the small amount of serotonin in the pills (if there actually is) triggered a wild anxiety attack or something. Never again I took those god damned pills again though.
That must have been a terrifying experience! 😮
That sounds like a much more serious problem than what a melatonin pill is going to cause
i used to take melatonin and sleep aids quite often, no problems, until i started waking up absolutely nauseous hyperventilating sweating cold anxious and just gross. i have other health problems and i dismissed it for something else, kept on w my melatonin regimen, and got worse. i dropped a lot of weight and lost a ton of friends and couldn’t work, it was really bad. slowly been recovering over the past year. it takes a lot out of me still but i’m getting there! glad to know you’re okay too:)
sounds like mdma withdrawal brain zaps idk if u do mdma tho 😂
if you take them for an extended period of time they fuck with your sleep scedule
I’m 59, when I was a child one of my favorite toys was my little doctor kit, complete with vials of little sugar pills. A number of years later those pills were replaced with paper images inside the bottle. Apparently they didn’t want children to mistake candy for medicine. So my question is, now we have popsicles, lollipops and gummies for medicine, what happened? Did they think people suddenly got smarter? They didn’t.
Even worse, they have gummies with drugs, that are not 'medicine', and people are overdosing on those all the time also. It's extremely irresponsible on our part, and we need to more heavily regulate this stuff.
I appreciate you ❤❤
HB is me! Hehe, Hunter Bernard, I was the one who overdosed on melatonin gummy bears. Last time I OD'd on gummies it was weed lmao
1:35 “and he felt goood” 💀
Gøøøöőď
Gooood
If I were to have a nickel everytime someone eat a bunch of gummies and ended up at the hospital, I would have 10 cents which isn’t much but it’s weird it happened twice.
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It's happened way more than twice. Just ChubbyEmu has only covered it twice.
the music in the background just makes this hilarious