# Ever Puked Just From Something You SAW? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790 "2009-09-03T20:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/21 "2009-09-04T19:57:16Z")
> [@Kingspades](#): > > \*\*SeptemberDay \*\*worked as a veterinary technician for about six years. The three main techs all had one particular malady that they just couldn’t handle: hers was abcesses, one hated anything to do with the eye, and the third couldn’t handle maggots. Fortunately each person’s particular squick-inducer wasn’t shared by the other two, so they’d swap out rooms as needed. What happened when they brought in an unfortunate animal with a maggot-infested abcess in its eye? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/22 "2009-09-04T20:27:35Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > What happened when they brought in an unfortunate animal with a maggot-infested abcess in its eye? 😉 Help wanted. FAST! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/23 "2009-09-05T02:15:30Z")
You know that “I threw up in my mouth a little” thing? I’ve had that a few times while working with three-year-olds. And not because of the fact that most of their diapers still needed changing. Nope. Instead it was always something worse: picture two thick lines of dayglow green snot running down an otherwise adorable face, and before you can get to them with a tissue, a little pink tongue darts out… yeah. Little kids are gross. And before anyone asks, their **own** tongue (as far up their lips as they could manage), okay? ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/24 "2009-09-05T02:57:22Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Once, long ago, there was a huge fly buzzing around my room. I swatted at it with a rolled up newspaper and smashed it. It had parasites, so instantly the smashed goo was covered with tiny crawling white worms. I didn’t throw up, but by the involuntary gagging in my throat, I sure wanted to. WHAT? This can happen? Seriously? I’ve never heard of this. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/25 "2009-09-05T02:59:49Z")
I did it. I thought it was a mama fly and those were her maggots. But mama flies lay eggs, they don’t gestate maggots. Eurggh. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/26 "2009-09-05T03:32:26Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > You know that “I threw up in my mouth a little” thing? I’ve had that a few times while working with three-year-olds. And not because of the fact that most of their diapers still needed changing. > > Nope. Instead it was always something worse: picture two thick lines of dayglow green snot running down an otherwise adorable face, and before you can get to them with a tissue, a little pink tongue darts out… yeah. Little kids are gross. And before anyone asks, their **own** tongue (as far up their lips as they could manage), okay? See, that doesn’t bother me at all. I guess it’s because you swallow so much snot when you have a cold anyway, what’s the difference if it goes through the front of the mouth first before going down the throat? I think also because I’ve wiped my daughter’s nose so many times when she has a cold that I’m immune to snot grossness. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/27 "2009-09-05T03:42:25Z")
No. I vomited seemingly endlessly for over a week when I fractured my skull (age 5) and once when I ate too much candy and cake at a birthday party (age 8). I haven’t thrown up since then (Now almost 30). I may feel a bit queasy from something gross, like watching childbirth. But, even a stomach flu can’t make me puke now. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/28 "2009-09-05T03:45:35Z")
I saw a pic of a horse whose hoof had completely separated from its leg. That did it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/29 "2009-09-05T03:46:55Z")
I threw up from watching the opening scene of _Trainspotting_. I’ll sure never go diving in a nasty toilet. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/30 "2009-09-05T03:53:13Z")
I’ve seen a leg infested with maggots. Things I see don’t make me throw up. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/31 "2009-09-05T05:06:00Z")
No, but I have made _someone else_ puke just by telling them a [story](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=483206&highlight=vomit). ---
**Author:** ![MarmaladeBay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@MarmaladeBay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarmaladeBay)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/32 "2009-09-05T10:21:55Z")
Nope. I tend to faint when I’m grossed out as opposed to puke. Pros: easier clean-up. Cons: not if you split open your head. My friend was describing a foot injury (in detail) to me and wham–I hit the ground. His car broke down on a main road and he was wearing flipflops. He took them off to push the car to a side road. Bloody footprints, etc. In the ER, they had to peel apart the sinews of his muscle to dig out the gravel. Yech. Another time as a party was dispersing, some friends and I went to In-N-Out. I didn’t faint–because I knew I was going to (I’m a seasoned pro)–but I did lay down in the parking lot directly in front of a police officer. I don’t know why, but a friend was telling me a story about a grandpa who was holding up his three year old granddaughter. He’s tickling her. She kicks him in the eye. It explodes. I think her aunt was a nurse. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/33 "2009-09-05T10:29:52Z")
I’m feeling a little queasy just reading this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/34 "2009-09-05T13:43:25Z")
[Don’t](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYmiqad_-M)[click](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmMQSok6TZM)on [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrODvhAHIA), [then](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqp6ql9DUHg). For that last one, you’ve GOT to stick around until the 1:06 mark. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/35 "2009-09-08T15:45:13Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name] For that last one, you’ve GOT to stick around until the 1:06 mark. [/QUOTE] Absolutely! I think Diego is going to be in my dreams, and probably not in a complimentary way. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/36 "2009-09-08T20:10:53Z")
2 girls 1 cup almost made me vomit, but not quite. Just dry heaves. Even thinking about it gives me dry heaves. Supposedly the most disgusting sound in the world is the sound of vomit hitting a floor or bucket. Any behavior that will increase your risk of contracting an infection is going to be disgusting. Eating feces, eating vomit, pus filled infections, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/37 "2009-09-08T21:53:22Z")
Last month my four year old daughter woke up and vomited all over herself and our bed. I almost vomited when I saw it. I was heaving heavily. It was the smell that actually did it though. Also on the bed. We had to throw out the entire mattress and pillows that night. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/38 "2009-09-08T22:22:16Z")
I was reading one of the stories on Crime Library when I was pregnant. One of them made me instantly nauseaus and light-headed. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/39 "2009-09-08T23:03:35Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I was reading one of the stories on Crime Library when I was pregnant. One of them made me instantly nauseaus and light-headed. Well, I’m curious. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790/40 "2009-09-09T00:56:38Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I am a sympathetic puker. Someone in my vicinity hurls, I follow suit fairly quickly unless I can get out of the area as soon as I see someone making that prehurking movement. Same here. I saw my mother throwing up through a window, couldn’t hear or smell it, couldn’t see the vomit, she had a deep basin to catch it, and I still had to turn away lest I join her in the spewing. The only time I’ve seen something and thrown up was when I saw a woman close a car door on her leg with enough force to sever everything but the bone. The foot was dangling in a way that was wholly unnatural and the flesh of her ankle was scrunched down like a sock and it was just nasty. And of course the woman was screaming in pain and totally freaking out, which made it all the worse. I don’t think I threw up because of the disgustingness of it, though, I think it was from the adrenaline dump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-puked-just-from-something-you-saw/508790.md?page=3)