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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Tue, 10 December 2013, 17:43:32
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Saw this in a movie..
The guy's got a light bleed.. this guy rips up some cigarettes onto some tissue and makes a compress..
This should be BAD.. correct?
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It's not sanitary.
Super glue works better anyway. That's what I use when I cut myself by accident. Hospitals too
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Wait so he puts the tobacco in the compress? Nicotine is toxic, I don't think that would be a good idea.
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Wait so he puts the tobacco in the compress? Nicotine is toxic, I don't think that would be a good idea.
yea.. ur probably right... I was highly suspicious of this... (http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/069.gif)
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Using a tobacco compress to stop light bleeding is an old folk remedy. Strictly temporary and only if nothing better is available, of course.
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Using a tobacco compress to stop light bleeding is an old folk remedy. Strictly temporary and only if nothing better is available, of course.
so there is something to this?
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Just googled it, apparently it really helps against light bleeding. Interesting.
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Interesting.
Don't throw out the antibiotic ointment just yet.
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Just googled it, apparently it really helps against light bleeding. Interesting.
u mean that one post on ask wiki? LOLOL
I saw this pdf.. it says the tobacco thing is a myth..
http://www.kcfirstaid.com/images/first_aid_myths_mistakes.pdf
But honestly... I think anything that works like a gauze.. that soaks up liquid and holds blood there for it to clot will work to stop light bleeding..
So maybe it's not as much a myth.. as it's just that light bleeding can be stopped by anything...
Computer paper would probably work too.
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Don't throw out the antibiotic ointment just yet.
Interesting != I would ever use this or recommend using this :p
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Just googled it, apparently it really helps against light bleeding. Interesting.
That and you get your fix. :p
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I take it packing in a bunch of dirt and covering with something would work also in a bind?