Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots

Posted By: A_G

Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:18 PM

Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots

Last Thursday, parents of students at Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island were sent an email warning them about the dangers of snorting crushed up Smarties candy (you know, that chalky-sweet staple of elementary school Halloween parties?).

But here’s the bad part: while it won’t get you high, Smartie-snorting can cause lung infections, bloody noses, and allergic reactions. Oh yeah, it can also invite nasal maggots.

That last horrifying possibility happens when the crushed and rotting candy stays lodged in the nasal cavity long enough to attract flies into the nostril. The fly can hang around just long enough to lay eggs, which typically come in batches of 75-150 eggs for a common housefly and hatch within a day of having been laid. Believe it or not, the presence of nose-maggots even has a medical name: nasal myiasis. Parents have been warned to watch for kids obsessively scratching their noses as an indication that children may have maggots in their noses. Presumably, parents should also pay attention to whether kids are picking wriggling, white boogers.
Posted By: MB Guy

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:25 PM

:chills:
Posted By: Sinatra Fan

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:26 PM

Gonna have to change the name of the candy to Dummies. crazy
Posted By: Carolina Blue

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:36 PM

Past- candy cigarettes
Now- candy cocaine
Next- candy meth?
Posted By: Bacon Boy

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:37 PM

Wow! Dale Butcher in the sixth grade convinced me snorting Smarties would make me smarter. Dumb me believed him and I had the worst burning sensation for hours. Fortunately, I never had maggots growing up in there.

::shudders::
Posted By: TB 12

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:37 PM

:crosses "snorting smarties" off the bucket list:
Posted By: BurntSienna

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 05:39 PM

Originally Posted By: BaconBoy
Fortunately, I never had maggots growing up in there.

::shudders::


Are you sure? eek
Posted By: 'Lil Freak!

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 06:07 PM

But Pixie Stix are still okay to snort, right?
Posted By: RR Joker

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 06:27 PM

I think I'd know if a fly flew up my nose...but it does put a new meaning to snorting a gnat up your nose! crazy eek

About snorting candy...ommmm...I don't even wanna go there. Someone really got some definitions and nicknames really, really confused!

nose candy = meth. shocked
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 06:30 PM

That is simply disgusting, AG. sick
Posted By: GuitarDude

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 06:32 PM

I heard about this on the radio this morning. I guess nasal maggots will be the clincher as to why someone shouldn't snort Smarties. crazy
Posted By: waldensouth

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 06:44 PM

That's just nasty! This would not even have been contemplated when I was a child.....
Posted By: KC Danimal

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 10:26 PM

That gives Candy Crush a whole new meaning.
Posted By: TheTruth

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/21/14 10:43 PM

Who knew?
Posted By: MollyMacMe

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/22/14 04:58 PM

Let the Dummies snort the Smarties as much as they want.

My Dad would call that "thinning the herd".
Posted By: GuitarDude

Re: Snorting Smarties Warning: Can Cause Nasal Maggots - 01/22/14 05:16 PM

...and the worms ate into his brain.