History WebVideo / Chubbyemu

* EatingContest: A group of young teenagers try a challenge they dubbed "[[PottyFailure First to poo-poo wears a Tutu]]", where they tried to eat laxative-spiked brownies and last the longest without needing to use the bathroom. the victor gloated about his win and kept eating the brownies even after he won, and let's just say the results weren't pretty... but not in the way you might expect.

* EatingContest: A group of young Chinese teenagers try a challenge they dubbed '[[PottyFailure First to Poo Poo wears a Tutu]]", where they tried to eat laxative-spiked brownies and last the longest without needing to use the bathroom. the victor gloated about his win and kept eating the brownies even after he won, and let's just say the results weren't pretty... but not in the way you might expect.

** Continuing the hepatic[[note]]a term referring to the liver[[/note]] theme, Patient CG’s father in “A Student Ate Leftover Potato Salad For Lunch. This Is What Happened To Her Liver.”, who didn’t know that it’s a very bad idea to pickle food with a copper pot,[[note]]Because large amounts of copper compounds leach into the food as a result of vinegar reacting with the copper surface on the pot’s interior[[/note]] as he did with the dill pickles in his home cooked potato salad. While CG’s dad ultimately suffered a minor case of copper toxicity that resulted in some digestive discomfort, CG suffered from a condition called Wilson’s disease, in which her body was unable to produce the proteins required to move copper in, out and around the body, especially within the liver. The copper compounds increased to lethal levels after she ate the salad, and proceeded to critically damage her liver to the point that she was in end-stage liver failure, but fortunately a transplant was available this time.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3H23g5kT0 This case]] really takes the cake, in which a 19 year old decides that rather than study during the Coronavirus lockdown, he'll down a whole jar of nutmeg extract for 'clout' on [=TikTok=]. In addition to suffering from horrendous mental instability (Nutmeg's main chemical components, Myristicin and Elemicin, are metabolised by the liver into drugs that are close in resemblance and function to Amphetamine and Mescaline), he obsessively drank water due to another symptom of Nutmeg intoxication being dry mouth. This initiated a perfect storm of nervous system chaos in the body that resulted in him being unable to sweat or urinate any of the vast excess of water out of his body, starting Hyponatremia that resulted in multiple seizures as his brain swelled up against the skull. Miraculously, his brain hadn't started herniating, and prompt treatment with hypertonic saline solution saved his life.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3H23g5kT0 This case]] really takes the cake, in which a 19 year old decides that rather than study during the Coronavirus lockdown, he'll down a whole jar of nutmeg extract for 'clout' on Website/TikTok. In addition to suffering from horrendous mental instability (Nutmeg's main chemical components, Myristicin and Elemicin, are metabolised by the liver into drugs that are close in resemblance and function to Amphetamine and Mescaline), he obsessively drank water due to another symptom of Nutmeg intoxication being dry mouth. This initiated a perfect storm of nervous system chaos in the body that resulted in him being unable to sweat or urinate any of the vast excess of water out of his body, starting Hyponatremia that resulted in multiple seizures as his brain swelled up against the skull. Miraculously, his brain hadn't started herniating, and prompt treatment with hypertonic saline solution saved his life.

* BadassBoast: Patient BG, who ate 25 laxative-spiked brownies in “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMy0vJfKvzI A Boy Ate 25 Laxative Brownies In 1 Hour. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys.]]”, probably intended this to be the result of said brownie consumption, where his desire to show up his friends meant he continued eating the tampered food even after it became clear he had won the contest to last the longest without needing to use the bathroom, but it resulted in him doing quite significant damage to his muscles and kidneys by creating hyperkalemia that then resulted in rhabdomyolysis, though he managed to survive.

** A 14-year-old ate 25 brownies laced with laxatives, essentially ingesting a whole bottle of the medicine, then suffered from Rhabdomyolysis.
** In the video Things That Do Not Cure COVID-19 If Ingested, numerous examples are shown, ranging from a relatively harmless case where a Chinese woman ate enough garlic to lose her voice temporarily, to a man drinking an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol, passing out, then recovering, and then someone who thought drinking diluted bleach would disinfect them, causing permanent burns to their throat.

** “A [Person] [carried out action]. This is How His/Her [Organ] Shut Down.” - the basic title for most of the videos in the series.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The cases featured are either adapted from those Bernard or his colleagues directly witnessed, or are taken from the medical literature, making the latter BasedOnATrueStory.

* BadassBoast: The patient who ate 25 laxative-spiked brownies in “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMy0vJfKvzI A Boy Ate 25 Laxative Brownies In 1 Hour. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys.]]” probably intended this to be the result, where his desire to show up his friends meant he continued eating the tampered food, but it resulted in him doing quite significant damage to his muscles and kidneys by creating hyperkalemia that then resulted in rhabdomyolysis, though he managed to survive.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: One man undergoing alcohol withdrawal drinks the contents of a lava lamp.

** “-emia, meaning presence in blood.”

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** The teenager who feasted on an entire bottle of vitamin gummies on a regular basis, inflicting serious damage to their bones and liver through Hypervitaminosis A, culminating in a moment where they downed an entire bottle in one go for breakfast, got dizzy and promptly shattered their arm.

** A 14-year-old ate 25 brownies laced with laxatives, essentially ingesting an entire bottle of the medicine, then suffered from Rhabdomyolysis.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The cases happened to Bernard or his colleagues, or were drawn from the medical literature.

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!!This channel features examples of the following:

** “A [Person] [carried out action]. This is How His/Her [Organ] Shut Down.” - the basic title for most of the videos in the series.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** Patient AJ’s roommate in “A Student Ate 5 Day Old Pasta For Lunch. This Is How His Liver Shut Down.” The patient, a student, had accidentally left out some pre-prepared pasta for two days, where it had become contaminated with the bacteria Bacillus cereus, only for his roommate to put the spoilt pasta into the fridge, thinking it had only been out for a few hours. Three days later, AJ ate the pasta, became infected with the bacteria, and suffered a horrible death after the bacteria, an uncommon strain capable of producing the toxin cereulide, destroyed his liver with the deadly chemical, and no transplant was available in time to save him.
** Continuing the hepatic[[note]]a term referring to the liver[[/note]] theme, Patient CG’s father in “A Student Ate Leftover Potato Salad For Lunch. This Is What Happened To Her Liver.”, who didn’t know that it’s a very bad idea to pickle food with a copper pot,[[note]]Because large amounts of copper compounds leach into the food as a result of vinegar reacting with the copper surface on the pot’s interior[[/note]] as he did with the dill pickles in his home cooked potato salad. While CG’s dad ultimately suffered a minor case of copper toxicity that resulted in some digestive discomfort, CG suffered from a condition called Wilson’s disease, in which her body was unable to produce the proteins required to move copper in, out and around the body, especially within the liver. The copper compounds increased to lethal levels after she ate the salad, and proceeded to critically damage her liver to the point that she was in end-stage liver failure, but fortunately a transplant was available this time.

** Continuing the hepatic[[note]]a term referring to the liver[[/note]] theme, Patient CG’s father in “A Student Ate Leftover Potato Salad For Lunch. This Is What Happened To Her Liver.”, who didn’t know that it’s a very bad idea to pickle food with a copper pot,[[note]]Because large amounts of copper compounds leach into the food as a result of vinegar reacting with the copper surface on the pot’s interior[[/note]] as he did with the dill pickles in his home cooked potato salad. While CG’s dad ultimately suffered a minor case of copper toxicity that resulted in some digestive discomfort, CG suffered from a condition called Wilson’s disease, in which her body was unable to produce the proteins required to move copper in, out and around the body, especially within the liver. These compounds proceeded to destroy her liver as well, but fortunately a transplant was available this time.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Patient AJ’s roommate in “ A Student Ate 5 Day Old Pasta For Lunch. This Is How His Liver Shut Down.” The patient, a student, had accidentally left out some pre-prepared pasta for two days, where it had become contaminated with the bacteria Bacillus cereus, only for his roommate to put the spoilt pasta into the fridge, thinking it had only been out for a few hours. Three days later, AJ ate the pasta, became infected with the bacteria, and suffered a horrible death after the bacteria, an uncommon strain capable of producing the toxin cereulide, destroyed his liver with the deadly chemical, and no transplant was available in time to save him.
** Continuing the hepatic[[note]]a term referring to the liver[[/note]] theme, Patient CG’s father in “ A Student Ate Leftover Potato Salad For Lunch. This Is What Happened To Her Liver.”, who didn’t know that it’s a very bad idea to pickle food with a copper pot,[[note]]Because large amounts of copper compounds leach into the food as a result of vinegar reacting with the copper surface on the pot’s interior[[/note]] as he did with the dill pickles in his home cooked potato salad. While CG’s dad ultimately suffered a minor case of copper toxicity that resulted in some digestive discomfort, CG suffered from a condition called Wilson’s disease, in which her body was unable to produce the proteins required to move copper in, out and around the body, especially within the liver. These compounds proceeded to destroy her liver as well, but fortunately a transplant was available this time.

* BigEater: A teenage girl engages in bouts of nyctophagia (sleepwalking, then eating while still asleep) as a consequence of Polycystic Ovary Sydrome.

* InstantIllness: Some of the medical illnesses and poisonings discussed on the channel show that some of them really do kick in extremely quickly, and almost instantly in some examples - these include a student getting infected with the Anisakis simplex parasite, and a man suffering from alcohol withdrawal getting poisoned by drinking a lava lamp full of propylene glycol in desperation, feeling his stomach struggle almost instantly.

** A 14-year-old ate 25 brownies laced with laxatives, essentially ingesting an entire bottle of the medicine, then suffered from Rhabdomyolosis.

'''Chubbyemu''' is the name of a Website/YouTube channel operated by a Chicago-based doctor, who covers strange and unusual medical cases, often with seemingly mundane or unexpected causes; the channel’s videos often feature ‘clickbaity’ titles, only for this to be the opposite of the case; everything in the title is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin!

** In the video Things That Do Not Cure COVID-19 If Ingested, numerous examples are shown, ranging from a relatively harmless case where a Chinese woman ate enough garlic to lose her voice temporarily, to a man drinking an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol, passing out, then recovering, and then someone who thought drinking diluted bleach would disinfect them, causing permanent burns to their throat.