"Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon ..."

[underpants]

Detroit - Doctors in Detroit, Michigan are now advocating an offbeat way to treat nosebleeds. All you need to do is stick a "nasal tampon" made from salted, cured pork up your nostrils.
A group of doctors working at Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan have published their findings in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. The bacon tampon technique was recently used to treat a young girl with a rare blood disorder and chronic nosebleeds.


"Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and packed within the nasal vaults successfully stopped nasal hemorrhage promptly," the doctors wrote. "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."


Surprisingly, this use of "medical pork" isn't new: doctors had previously used the technique to treat different disorders in 1940, 1953, and 1976.


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318499#ixzz1kbtCqJPE

[MrCoffee]

1. Bacon-Aids?

[Suich]

2. What's wrong with a Kleenex and

tilting your head back?

[underpants]

3. It's science, lady!

SCIENCE!!!!

[ohiosmith]

4. Doesn't sound kosher to me.

[underpants]

8. Oy!

[Brother Buzz]

5. So, like, I get in a bar fight and punch a dude in the nose, I should

stuff his nose with pork rinds so he don't bleed all over the pool table?

[Wait Wut]

7. AH!

AHAHAHAHAHA!!! So glad the boss left already!

[Avalux]

6. At least it smells good. n/t