Interesting use for a tampon.

[Tryharder62]

The main character of the book I just finished used tampons to stop the blood flow from gun shot wounds. Not to save the victim but to keep the blood from getting on the floor when she drug him to the garage. Then she froze the victim in snow 24 hours so she could make up the plan on how to get her daughter, who was kidnapped, back. I am thinking it would work to help save a life if used earlier. So, I am thinking of adding tampons to my first aid kit.

 

[cleaver]

they're wicks, not staunches...
i'd be afraid that they'd promote flow...

mud's a better patch...
hell!
superglue was invented to stop bleeders.
takes less room too.

don't need no desiccant!

 

[Tryharder62]

they're wicks, not staunches...
i'd be afraid that they'd promote flow...

mud's a better patch...
hell!
superglue was invented to stop bleeders.
takes less room too.

don't need no desiccant!

I doubt that if they promoted flow woman would be wearing them! Superglue would be detectable in the wound and picked up on autopsy. So would mud. The author of the book was very clever. Cleaver?

 

[cleaver]

your world, babe...
i'm just staunching the flow... it seems.

use a roll of paper towels then burn them?

in the southwest,
they just hire mexicans (actually any native spanish speakers)
who clean up with bleach and fabuloso later...

take care of the body(ies) at hand
and leave the rest to illegal peons...

make the most of illegal immigration?

it's as american as politics.

hit a bong and calm down.
the stiff you're worried about is dead, right?

 

[Tryharder62]

IT IS ONLY A BOOK! But the person in the book was dead.

 

[bronzeage]

I doubt that if they promoted flow woman would be wearing them! Superglue would be detectable in the wound and picked up on autopsy. So would mud. The author of the book was very clever. Cleaver?

They are intended to absorb fluids, so if applied to a wound, it might serve her purpose. If this was a shot gun wound, he would have looked like a dingleberry tree.

Panty liners would be more effective.

 

[butters]

perg's the goto man for the best information next to bronze - i understand tampons and panty liners are a regular part of wilderness first aid kits

 

[butters]

ha, who needs perg when mr google was so forthcoming?

The tampon is actually regulated in the US by the Food & Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The word “tampon” is a derivative of the French word tapon which means “a little plug or stopper.” My research indicates that tampons were used as early as the 19th century as battle dressings to plug bullet holes. There are even accounts of tampons being used as wound plugs in modern warfare. A friend of mine told me that it’s not uncommon for Army Medics to carry tampons in their med kits. They are also the perfect product for a bloody nose. There seem to be mixed accounts of whether the tampon was used as a feminine product before or after its use on the battlefield.

http://artofmanliness.com/2012/06/05/survival-tampon/

Another excellent tampon survival use is as a crude water filter. While it will not filter out biological, chemical, or heavy metal threats, it can certainly be used to filter out sediments and floating particulates. This would be considered a 1st Phase Filter, which can drastically increase the life and efficacy of your main water filter.

excellent fire tinder. When the dry cotton fibers of a tampon are pulled apart and hit with a spark or flame, they will burst into a nice steady fire

As a last ditch water filter, you can make an improvised Survival Straw from the plastic housing and cotton from a tampon.

and more

awesome.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

When I was 12, I knocked the ever-loving shit out of my right little finger. My grandmother, ever the country-girl improvisor, made a splint out of a metal shoe horn that she straightened the end on, and she made a pad for it from a tampon. Those and a bit of surgical tape, and that finger wasn't going anywhere.

 

[McKenna]

I've heard of using a tampon in the barrel of a gun to keep it clean. If it stops blood flow, it oughtta stop dirt flow, eh?

 

[torchthebitch]

"Ne toucher ni la plaie ni le tampon" or something like that, was printed on the wrapper of my first field dressings.

 

[oggbashan]

I've heard of using a tampon in the barrel of a gun to keep it clean. If it stops blood flow, it oughtta stop dirt flow, eh?

During the assault on the Normandy Beaches on D-Day, US troops were issued with condoms to protect the bore of their rifles from salt water and sand.

They had many left over for use among the civilian population...

 

[McKenna]

During the assault on the Normandy Beaches on D-Day, US troops were issued with condoms to protect the bore of their rifles from salt water and sand.

They had many left over for use among the civilian population...

Win, win!

 

[knot_sweet]

To slow blood flow from a gunshot entry wound, sure tampons might work. On the exit wound, not so much.

Besides, there's a nifty little product called "quick clot" now. Basically, it's sheets of gauze impregnated with a clotting agent. You just pack the wound, and keep packing till the bleeding stops.

Downside, it's expensive stuff.

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

White pepper is fantastic for clotting blood from a cut or similar small wound.

 

[sbaudot]

Hit me with white pepper on an open cut and I might have to give you a tampon for the bloody nose I am gonna give you hehehehe

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Hit me with white pepper on an open cut and I might have to give you a tampon for the bloody nose I am gonna give you hehehehe

It's not salt. It doesn't hurt.

 

[BotanyBoy]

IT IS ONLY A BOOK! But the person in the book was dead.

Every leader on the battlefield worth his weight in shit makes his guys carry at least a few tampons, and yes they are perfect for plugging bullet holes. Sterile, stop bleeding and they even have an applicator to shove in the wound for a perfect plug.

I still carry a box in my first aid kit, never know when you may find yourself dealing with a puncture wound. But then again I also carry tourniquets, 2000 CC bag of Lactated Ringers with 14 and 18ga IV, epi pens, clotting agent, sucking chest wound kit, splint, cravats, gauze and all the other little bandaid type bullshit you usually find in kits.

Call me paranoid...but more than one person has been thankful I had that in my trunk.

 

[going_long]

If lightly moistened and carefully teased they also make a sufficiently convincing child's hamster replacement to buy time until the nearest pet shop opens.

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Every leader on the battlefield worth his weight in shit makes his guys carry at least a few tampons, and yes they are perfect for plugging bullet holes. Sterile, stop bleeding and they even have an applicator to shove in the wound for a perfect plug.

I still carry a box in my first aid kit, never know when you may find yourself dealing with a puncture wound. But then again I also carry tourniquets, 2000 CC bag of Lactated Ringers with 14 and 18ga IV, epi pens, clotting agent, sucking chest wound kit, splint, cravats, gauze and all the other little bandaid type bullshit you usually find in kits.

Call me paranoid...but more than one person has been thankful I had that in my trunk.

I'd be more inclined to call you prepared.

Most brands of tampons here don't come with applicators.. Actually I'm hard pushed to think of any that do, so there goes part of the advantage on this side of the planet.

 

[torchthebitch]

To slow blood flow from a gunshot entry wound, sure tampons might work. On the exit wound, not so much.

Besides, there's a nifty little product called "quick clot" now. Basically, it's sheets of gauze impregnated with a clotting agent. You just pack the wound, and keep packing till the bleeding stops.

Downside, it's expensive stuff.

White pepper is fantastic for clotting blood from a cut or similar small wound.

Milk powder works too. Quick Clot though is exothermic. Field hospitals hate cleaning out the wounds where clotting agents have been used and in most cases casevac makes them un-necessary. Civilian situations however are often different.

 

[going_long]

I understand that, traditionally, the French army issued them to their soldiers to pop up their bumholes so they didn't soil themselves as they ran away.

 

[Riles]

Other than the white pepper - I don't recall seeing that, these items are all mentioned several times over for various purposes in my wilderness survival books.