Pork, the surprise remedy for a nosebleed

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Researchers document the use of pork strips for treating nosebleeds

Marc Abrahams

A new medical study recommends a method called "nasal packing with strips of cured pork" as an effective way to treat uncontrollable nosebleeds.

Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, at Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan, treated a girl who had a rare hereditary disorder that brings prolongued bleeding. Publishing in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, they pack the essential details into two sentences:

"Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and packed within the nasal vaults successfully stopped nasal hemorrhage promptly, effectively, and without sequelae … To our knowledge, this represents the first description of nasal packing with strips of cured pork for treatment of life-threatening hemorrhage in a patient with Glanzmann thrombasthenia."

They acknowledge a long tradition of using pork to treat general epistaxis, ie nosebleed. The technique fell into disuse, they speculate, because "packing with salt pork was fraught with bacterial and parasitic complications. As newer synthetic hemostatic agents and surgical techniques evolved, the use of packing with salt pork diminished."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/23/improbable-research-pork-nosebleeds

[Javaman]

1. Is that raw bacon up your nose or are you glad to see me? nt

[zbdent]

2. Makes me wonder if these doctors were

representing the pork industry ...

[MicaelS]

3. Well that finally explains this video over at Live Leak

Guy Gets Nose Professionally Picked

[hootinholler]

4. BACON!

BACON! BACON! BACON! BACON! BAAAACOOOONNN!!