(as well as tasting delicious)
http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-bacon- ... 4737.story
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Bacon Stops 4 Year Old's Nosebleed
Topics: Bacon
Genes and Chromosomes
Nosebleeds
Vera Culley
Web Producer
5:49 a.m. CST, January 26, 2012
(KTVI - FOX2now.com)—
Could cramming a piece of bacon up your nose stop an uncontrollable nosebleed? Some doctors in Michigan say yes. They say the fatty pork helped save the life of a four year old girl whose nose would not stop bleeding. The child was diagnosed with Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, a rare genetic platelet disorder, and doctors were able to stop her nose bleed twice with bacon.
They recommend raw bacon. One of the doctors recalled the recommendation he had heard in a surgical field manual while in the military -- use pork to stop bleeding.
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As reported in the Guardian,
“A new medical study recommends a method called “nasal packing with strips of cured pork” as an effective way to treat uncontrollable nosebleeds.”
Doctors at the Detroit Medical Center successfully treated a girl with a rare hereditary disorder (Glanzmann thrombasthenia) that can cause prolonged nasal hemorrhage – by using a bacon nasal tampon!
The study was published in the Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, with the gist of it being:
“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.”
Although the doctors claim this is the first treatment for that particular disorder, they also acknowledge a long tradition of using cured pork to treat nosebleeds. They speculate that the technique fell into disuse because “packing with salt pork was fraught with bacterial and parasitic complications.”
YAY BACON!
