Lysol maker warns against internal use of disinfectants after Trump comments

LewisBraham

https://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/lysol-manufacturer-warns-against-internal-use-after-trump-comments-n1191586

The manufacturer of Lysol, a disinfectant spray and cleaning product, issued a statement warning against any internal use after President Donald Trump suggested that people could get an "injection" of "the disinfectant that knocks (coronavirus) out in a minute."

"As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)," a spokesperson for Reckitt Benckiser, the United Kingdom-based owner of Lysol, said in a statement to NBC News.

PopTart

God help us all if the lunatics take over the asylum once again in November ...

msf

Lysol may be owned by a company in the UK, but it is manufactured right here in the good old US of A.

According to the WSJ:

A century ago, Lysol marketed itself as a weapon against the Spanish flu, which rolled across the planet, killing between 20 million and 40 million people. “Fight Spanish Influenza With Daily Disinfection,” a Lysol ad in the New York Times advised in 1918. “Use Lysol daily to kill germs that are always present in garbage cans, toilets, sinks, drains and in dark, damp, sunless corners.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-workers-at-a-lysol-plant-have-a-mission-now-11587482618

Back then, everyone, even presidents, knew that it was to be used on external surfaces.

rforno

Step right up, ol' Doc Mengel---er, Tweety has your latest miracle cure! Believe me, people are loving it! It's so perfect ... like my phone call ....

Anna

Well, I can't abide the smell of Lysol. Then I remembered that the experts were saying it was just as good to give your hands a thorough washing with hand soap. So I just made myself a sudsy shake of Ivory hand soap and drank it slowly while jumping on my trampoline. I'm fairly certain I got most of the nooks a crannies inside my body that a virus could hide in. I understand my death wasn't due to the Ivory soap shake but rather to the refusal of my lungs to have the solution slosh around in them.

BenWP

I like that idea @Anna. If it were not for reading this article, I would still be squeezing the liquid out of our one container of Lysol wipes. I was planning to keep it for the day when my wife or I gets the virus.

rforno

For Friday drinks today I’m thinking of a Trumptini: 2 jiggers bleach, 1 of Lysol, & 2 ounces of seltzer water, served over ice with a colloidal silver garnish that’s been UV-seared for ten minutes. Refreshing and disinfecting! (Funeral director chasers to follow) Recommended by the orange thing himself!!

Dennis Baran

@rforno ROFLOLUTS

davidrmoran

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catch22

Witness (tv) to all of this, the comments, etc.

Thank you to all who have added to Lewis' post to help us make it through these trying times, and I'm not writing about COVID.

I had a big smile on my face while reading.

Good Evening,
Catch

Mark

And I bet you all thought that no one could possibly be that stupid:

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2020/04/25/tennesseans-being-overexposed-disinfectants-they-ward-off-covid-19/3013177001/?fbclid=IwAR36nlxmXGpKjq280Q_-PGqWOBWYBE-gUwKL0cmYx2gidyKA2MRrKRxyqFg

Old_Joe

Seems to me that most of you are missing the obvious "solution".

Alcohol is a great disinfectant, yes? A fair amount of your favorite poison plus a brisk session on the trampoline (thanks for that, Anna!) should do the job.

catch22

Hi @Old_Joe

So...........shaken, not stirred, eh? As with, James Bond. Might do the trick.