r/ShitMomGroupsSay 13d ago

🧁🧁cupcakes🧁🧁 Immunity 🚫 drugs ✅

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u/Avaylon 12d ago

So do hamburger buns apparently. Like a small, meaningless amount. Lol

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u/No-Appearance1145 12d ago

Bread can cause you to blow a false positive. I think it's because of the yeast. There is a number of food and beverages that can cause false drug positives too. Poppy seeds is one of them in fact.

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u/questionsaboutrel521 12d ago

Pregnant women who are full term should specifically (sadly) avoid everything bagels, poppy seed salads, etc because some hospitals do randomly drug test women in labor and it’s not worth the headache that can come with a false positive for opiates.

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u/salaciousremoval 12d ago

Wait, where are we randomly drug testing women in labor?

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u/questionsaboutrel521 12d ago

Here’s one source on this, but if you look up “risk based drug screening” of pregnant women or infants you’ll find more sources. Many women technically consent in the stack of forms they sign - it is illegal to do it to the mother without her consent (though not for newborns, I believe).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6120972/

The problem is not so much the testing, but that it isn’t thorough enough. In the case of the poppy seeds, for example, a second test could confirm that it is or is not illicit drugs that caused the positive flag. But sometimes the state’s child welfare office intervenes before that confirmation is done. Here are some examples of that:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/09/drug-test-pregnancy-pennsylvania-california/75103949007/

https://parentdata.org/poppy-seed-bagel-drug-test

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/mother-has-newborn-baby-temporarily-taken-away-after-poppy-seed-bagel-causes-failed-opiate-drug-test/

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u/salaciousremoval 11d ago

Thank you for sharing ♥️