Table of Contents
- 1 Why do you spread cheeks and cough?
- 2 Why do they make prisoners cough?
- 3 What does spread your cheeks mean?
- 4 Why do nurses ask you to squat and cough?
- 5 Why do doctors make guys cough during a physical?
- 6 Why do mental hospitals tell you to squat and cough?
- 7 Is coughing a natural reflex?
- 8 Why do we cough?
Why do you spread cheeks and cough?
And it’s known as “slapped cheek” disease. This is because the rash can cause a child’s cheeks to become very red. Fifth disease is spread from one child to another through direct contact with fluid from the nose and throat. It can also be spread through contact with infected blood.
Why do they make prisoners cough?
Guards would order inmate Tonya Townsend to strip completely. Along with 15 to 40 other women at a time, she would be told to spread her legs, squat three times and cough, in order to free any hidden contraband. If someone didn’t do it just so, everybody had to do it again.
Why do people bend over and cough?
When your doctor tells you to look to the side and cough, he or she is checking you for a hernia. A hernia is caused by a weakness in the abdominal wall which allows the abdominal contents (mostly fat, but rarely intestines) to slip down in to the scrotal sac (commonly referred to as your “balls”).
What does spread your cheeks mean?
Informal to make (oneself) agreeable to a large number of people, often of the opposite sex.
Why do nurses ask you to squat and cough?
It’s a search method to see if a prison inmate has something hidden inside his or her body cavity . Women prisoners can, do and will hide objects in their vaginas, so a physical probe will be done by a female prison guard, if security feels that one needs to be done.
What is a full body search?
A full body cavity search is a visual search or manual internal inspection of body cavities for prohibited material such as illegal drugs, money, jewellery, or weapons. This search is different from a strip search as it involves poking fingers or inserting the entire hand into suspect’s rectums.
Why do doctors make guys cough during a physical?
A doctor can feel for a hernia by using his or her fingers to examine the area around the groin and testicles. The doctor may ask you to cough while pressing on or feeling the area. Sometimes, the hernia causes a bulge that the doctor can detect. If this happens, surgery almost always repairs the hernia completely.
Why do mental hospitals tell you to squat and cough?
While it is common practice in psychiatric facilities to do a body map of a patient’s scars, bruises, tattoos, and other markings so as to be able to identify the appearance of new such markings and injuries over the course of one’s hospitalization, at Hartgrove they conduct it far more like a prison strip search.
What does “squat and cough” mean in prison?
It’s going to mean the same for females as it does for males. A female inmate will be ordered to bend forward at the waist, spread her cheeks, and “Squat and Cough”. Just as a person cannot sneeze with their eyes open, they can’t keep certain orifices clenched when they cough. This is part of the Unclothed Body Search (Strip Search) procedure.
Is coughing a natural reflex?
A cough is a natural reflex, but when you think about it, coughs are violent, wracking events that can often be painful, and yet our body seems to perform them naturally – almost unconsciously. Before we properly dig into the “how” of the matter, perhaps we should outline “why” we cough at all!
Why do we cough?
There are a number of other causes for coughing, including smoking, acid reflux disease and sleep apnea, but in every case, a cough is meant to expel an irritant, even if we are intentionally putting it inside of us.
Can you sneeze with your eyes open during a strip search?
Just as a person cannot sneeze with their eyes open, they can’t keep certain orifices clenched when they cough. This is part of the Unclothed Body Search (Strip Search) procedure. They have to check to see if you have anything hidden in your vagina and if you do squatting and coughing as hard as you can will make it come out.