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Bacon Stops 4 Year Old's Nosebleed (Saved her life)
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Posted on 01/26/2012 9:09:08 AM PST by submarinerswife

Bacon Stops 4 Year Old's Nosebleed

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Could cramming a piece of bacon up your nose stop an uncontrollable nosebleed? Some doctors in Michigan say yes. They say the fatty pork helped save the life of a four year old girl whose nose would not stop bleeding. The child was diagnosed with Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, a rare genetic platelet disorder, and doctors were able to stop her nose bleed twice with bacon.

They recommend raw bacon. One of doctors recalled the recommendation he had head in a surgical field manual while in the military -- use pork to stop bleeding.


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To: submarinerswife

(Homer Simpson) Bacon...is there anything it can’t do?(/Homer Simpson)


21 posted on 01/26/2012 9:26:24 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: GeronL
Since I was in the kitchen my last enlistment, I could get raw bacon pretty quickly. ;)

/johnny

22 posted on 01/26/2012 9:27:39 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: submarinerswife

And none of that turkey bacon crap.


23 posted on 01/26/2012 9:28:09 AM PST by albie
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To: GeronL

“How common is it for deployed soldiers to be carrying raw bacon??”

Well, it could also be used to subdue Talibunnies in Afghanistan.


24 posted on 01/26/2012 9:28:46 AM PST by ari-freedom (If SOPA/PIPA passes, we will lose our Free Republic.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Actually a wet tea bag stops bleeding. Press it on the wound and it works fast. Stings like heck though.


25 posted on 01/26/2012 9:31:06 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Or Jewish


26 posted on 01/26/2012 9:34:39 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: musicman

That . . . that is a thing of beauty.

If only the vase was filled with beer . . .


27 posted on 01/26/2012 9:39:33 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Preparation ZOT, for prompt relief from annoying romnoids.)
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To: KoRn

Spam spam spam spam ...


28 posted on 01/26/2012 9:41:34 AM PST by rfp1234 (RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
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To: submarinerswife

Watch out for bacon-snort overdoses, though. You could end up looking like Henry Waxman.


29 posted on 01/26/2012 9:45:35 AM PST by rfp1234 (RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
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To: submarinerswife
The Power of Pork® Pinglist!

If you'd like to be added, send a ping...

just kidding!!

30 posted on 01/26/2012 9:51:11 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Proud RINOmney Denialist since 2007!)
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To: stuartcr

I suspect that a Jewish person would not object to bacon being used as a compress to stop bleeding, as long as he didn’t have to eat it. But, a Muslim would. Moreover, I might object to having raw bacon shoved up my nose, even though I have noreservations about eating it cooked. ;^)

However, you make a good point. LOL.


31 posted on 01/26/2012 9:53:17 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: kevkrom
Proving yet again that everything is better with bacon.

Yes, even that.

Apparently *somebody* agrees!


32 posted on 01/26/2012 10:07:16 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Red Badger
Kevin?..............

For best results, the bacon has to be at 6 degrees.
33 posted on 01/26/2012 10:07:22 AM PST by BikerJoe
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“And if the child is Muslim, he just bleeds to death?”

Apparently so.


34 posted on 01/26/2012 10:13:25 AM PST by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: GeronL

“How common is it for deployed soldiers to be carrying raw bacon??”

Probably more common than anyone cares to let on.


35 posted on 01/26/2012 10:14:50 AM PST by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I guess everyone should keep an emergency supply


36 posted on 01/26/2012 10:15:13 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Big Giant Head; Marie Antoinette

I didn’t look down thread to see if you had seen this yet.


37 posted on 01/26/2012 10:15:13 AM PST by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: ladyjane

“... a wet tea bag stops bleeding”

Arrowroot can stop it as well. Well, maybe not in the nose but on other parts.


38 posted on 01/26/2012 10:19:05 AM PST by momtothree
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To: MeganC

heh

That brings up some weird ideas


39 posted on 01/26/2012 10:21:04 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: submarinerswife

Bmfl.


40 posted on 01/26/2012 10:36:56 AM PST by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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