I used to have nosebleeds as a kid. I sometimes used my mom's tampons and her reaction was: "That's actually a good idea."
Tampons absorb, which isn’t great if you need to help clot your leaky flesh. It’s better than nothing, but gauze or tissue would be better.
Tampons absorb to grow thicker and then staunch the bleeding by blocking it. It's literally called a tamponade.
Tamponade is what they drink in hell on hot days.
Is that like a bloody Mary?
I thought it was what vampires drank on a hot day.
A vampire walks into a bar. The bartender asks if he'd like some blood. "Just hot water, please," the vampire responds. The bartender raise an eyebrow, but goes to get the hot water. When he places the mug in front of the vampire, he says, "I thought you were a vampire. Why order hot water?" The vampire pulls a tampon out of his bag and says, "I'm having tea."
You're welcome.
When you tell this joke in person, the crappy vampire accent is a must.
My mental voice for that is Vladislav from Among the Shadows
Tamponade is what they drink in heaven on hot days.
And if you squeeze it into a glass it's called a kool-ade
What a horrible day to be able to read.
They were invented to plug bullet wounds in wartime after all, until nurses noticed they had other practical uses as well.
Don’t quote me on that though, I don’t remember where I read that.
Tampons have been used to manage menstruation for thousands of years. In the 1800s they first started trying to used them for bullet wounds. So they weren't invented for bullet wounds.
Also, just to be clear, don't stick a tampon in a bullet wound. They are not at all an effective dressing. In all cases you are far better off just holding a wad of gauze or similar over the wound and applying pressure. A tampon isn't large enough and doesn't go deep enough to do any good as packing.
isn't large enough and doesn't go deep enough to do any good as packing.
Story of my life.
If you get nosebleeds often, especially in cold weather, get some 'nasal spray' I don't know the exact name but mine is from Dollar General and says "Nasal Spray oxymetazoline HCL 0.05%" on the bottle.
It'll stop it in like 5 minutes instead of 30. With the only drawback being that I now have a slightly bloody bottle in my purse 😅
Also they sell little cotton tubes that you can put up your nose and those work pretty well also.
Be careful of the oxymetazoline sprays. If used for longer periods of time (more than three days) they can get you addicted to them. This is mostly true for people using them for stuffy noses, but getting used to using them is what puts people at risk. It's an addiction that's actually quite common but not very often talked about, because it's often not recognised as an addiction.
Great, affordable medicine for the occasional nose issue, but it comes with risks people tend to ignore until it's too late and you're buying bags of the stuff just to get through the week.
I don't know the exact name
Nasal Spray oxymetazoline HCL 0.05%
If you get nosebleeds often, go to the dr. They can fix it. Had mine fixed as a teen, went from weekly to never.
I'd add to this that 30 minute nosebleeds don't sound that healthy either!
*There is a good chance they can fix it.
A friend of mine wanted to get their nose fixed but the doctors said that their nose wasn't suitable for the procedure and that it would most likely make it worse instead of better. They mostly grew out of it naturally though, going from multiple times a day as a teen to less than once per month as an adult.
Mine are about once a month or two. I live in Florida so the air is humid and warm, my issue isn't with the frequency but rather that they won't stop. I'm on a medicine that has a side effect of thinning blood, I looked into getting it fixed and decided wasn't big enough of a deal to actually do.
Glad it worked for you though!
Bonus: absorb some cocaine in it so when you use it, you get a burst of energy!
Instructions unclear sat down and did my taxes instead of getting energy
Rather die before I bought medicine from a dollar general. Can't trust that shit
Dollar general stuff is actually often the exact same brands in smaller portions.
It's legally the same chemical, and often the same brand. However, their handling of potentially sensitive products is profoundly lacking. See: https://apnews.com/article/dollar-tree-lead-cinnamon-applesauce-wanabana-7376af3115d7fe506ad2cb168787d1d3
I wouldn't trust them to properly comply with a recall that I as a consumer would usually trust the store to handle, like taking products they know to be contaminated off the shelf. Additionally, I wouldn't trust them to ship or store those products in compliance with manufacturers guidelines.
Most things will be fine, but some things breakdown or develop issues if not stored in what are typically reasonable conditions.
For example, if kept too long or in improper conditions, aspirin can break down significantly and provide less benefit. Annoying if you're taking it for a headache, potentially dangerous if you're taking it for clot prevention.
Likewise bottled water, although typically drawn from municipal water supplies, is not held to the same standards and can develop bacterial growth if left in poor conditions too long.
Then there's the chronic staffing issues that can lead to food that requires refrigeration, like meat or dairy, to sit waiting to be put in the cooler for far, far longer than is safe.
Dollar stores are great for stuff like "I lost my shirt at the beach and I need something so I can go inside a restaurant", crayons, and general "stuff" you need only a small amount of and can afford the relative markup or only need infrequently. I wouldn't trust them for anything that goes inside a living creature because I have no confidence they even have enough staff to try to handle things appropriately.
Dollar stores are great for stuff like
also wrapping paper and cheap 3 ring binders.
Cronus would be proud
I don’t get it
It looks like he just ate a baby.
I'm not sure I do either but my guess would be the other lady thinks he's huffing a menstrual pad?
Or munching on a bloody diaper...
Appreciate your willingness to admit it.
It looks like he is munching on a bloody diaper or menstrual pad to the lady in the other car.
Would also be funny if it was a maxipad.
maxipads were invented for wounds like this. the menstrual solution came after the war.
The fact that I get to learn cool facts while commenting on memes is a reason why I love the Internet.
I read someone say that (here or on Reddit) when there was post that Russian soldiers were given tampons to use to stop bleeding.
I searched for history of tampons and that looked like the person was just bullshitting. I think OP probably saw the same comment as me.
Recently saw an army training video and they used tampons as tinder for campfires. I wonder when they started doing that.
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