how to stop bleeding...

[killsta]

[spurs-442]

olly22n said:

I'm an idiot and have cut my lip open trying to get a strepsil out of its foil packaging...

How can I stop the bleeding, its gushing out!!!

Salt and Vinegar chips are my recommendation





May not actually help

[Famous Graham]

Iodine.

[Original Poster]

I had a similar incident in Barcelona with my shaver.

It bled for a good 30 minutes. All I did was kept tissue applied, it will stop eventually (you hope).

[Superhoop1904]

[killsta]

I think that's the poshest stapler I've ever seen.

[patmahe]

Its no good, you're doomed. Or I'd imagine holding some loo roll to it should do the trick followed by a coating of vaseline (steady) should keep things under control.

[TonyHetherington]

salt binds wounds

[grumbledoak]

spurs-442 said:

Salt and Vinegar chips are my recommendation

Not nice! Nor you, Graham.

If it is really desperate, Super Glue was designed and intended to quickly stick skin to skin. Not sure I'd want it in my mouth, though.

I'd stick to tissues and time, myself.

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 7th October 16:02

[HBLC]

Whack a tampon up it.

[Blue Meanie]

Cyanide... Stops any bleeding quick smart.

[Superhoop1904]

HBLC said:

Whack a tampon up it.

[Jasandjules]

Pressure until your blood has coagulated.....

[spurs-442]

Blue Meanie said:

Cyanide... Stops any bleeding quick smart.

Tends to stop the heart too which may be too much of a negative in this instance

[BlackVanGirl]

Firm pressure with a tissue or cloth, if it soaks through put another one over it rather than pulling the soaked one off. Oh, and go to a walk-in centre if it doesn't stop after half an hour or so.

[Jonathan27]

A soldering iron should cauterise the wound. Or, if you don’t have one handy a very delicately placed hot iron should do it.

[DavesFlaps]

Just leave it.

The bleeding will stop eventually, for one reason or another.

[filski666]

Obviously pressure on the wound, then dip your mouth in molten tar.

OK, seriously if you are starting to go into shock from the huge blood loss (!) you need a Styptic Pencil - usually sold for when you cut yourself shaving, made of Aluminium Sulphate, Titanium Dioxide or Potassium Alum.

Available from most chemists, and some secondary school chemistry departments!

Another alternative is sold in pet shops for when you cut small a animal's (e.g. a rabbit's) toenail and you cut too much - they bleed like the proverbial stuck pig - so pet shops sell styptic pencils which you dab on the wound and it clots the blood and stops the bleeding.

Edited by filski666 on Thursday 7th October 16:09

[Mars]

You need to let the pressure out elsewhere, so drill some small holes around your lower body. That ought to do.

[_Batty_]

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