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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts) Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:04 AM Jan 2012

Girl, 4, saved from life-threatening nosebleed after doctor puts salted pork up her nostrils

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Before the unusual treatment, the girl, who has a rare bleeding disorder, had been in intensive care for five days with surgeons unable to stop the blood loss.

Operations and conventional treatment had failed to work, she needed regular transfusions and she was on a ventilator.

Doctors at Detroit Medical Centre feared she might need a highly risky procedure which could have left her blind or caused her body to begin attacking its own cells.

But then a doctor who had served in the military recalled being told to use salt pork on the battlefield to cure a nosebleed and decided to try it.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2093267/Cured-Girl-4-saved-life-threatening-nosebleed-salted-pork-nostrils.html#ixzz1krNI6YKv

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Girl, 4, saved from life-threatening nosebleed after doctor puts salted pork up her nostrils (Original Post) snagglepuss Jan 2012 OP

You may want to edit that title proud2BlibKansan Jan 2012 #1

Good stuff... JSnuffy Jan 2012 #2

Is there anything bacon can't do?? Schema Thing Jan 2012 #3

Pork makes me sick. Fawke Em Jan 2012 #4

Really? Fuzz Jan 2012 #5

Choose not to eat pork. Not "can't". MNBrewer Jan 2012 #6

We're talking about shoving stuff up your nose here slackmaster Jan 2012 #7

"Placed inside her nasal cavity" Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #8

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)

1. You may want to edit that title

Reply to snagglepuss (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:05 AM

Jan 2012

There's an extra "put".

JSnuffy

(374 posts)

2. Good stuff...

Reply to snagglepuss (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:07 AM

Jan 2012

I remember a nasty cut I got in the field and my bandage kept working loose, from sweat and dirt, and the wound kept reopening.

Eventually someone stuck some pine sap on it and that sucker stayed shut for days. Supposedly there is some anti-microbacterial stuff in there as well.

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)

3. Is there anything bacon can't do??

Reply to snagglepuss (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:59 AM

Jan 2012

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)

4. Pork makes me sick.

Reply to Schema Thing (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:08 PM

Jan 2012

So, yes, it can't make me feel well. That's something it can't do.

(The "everything tastes better with bacon" line foisted on society by The Food Network is an affront to every Jew, Muslim and people who can't eat pork for dietary reason and a pet peeve of mine.)