Can you use tampons to slow down the bleeding from bullet holes?

[Anonymous]

It will get infected most likely but from the ground to the hospital it sounds effective 🤔

[NathanDavis]

no lmfao...

tampons are effective to absorb some blood and literally tea spoons of it, which is not a lot... I cut my finger the other day and I did bleed more than that just with a cut, lmao

even if it were a giant tampon that could absorb all five liters... it will only absorb, it will not slow down the bleeding in any way

so... take any of her clothes instead and wrap it around for the most pressure you can apply... or just get some quikclot online...

[Asker]

Yea but then you squeeze it and you het a blood refill 😂

[Asker]

Get**

[NathanDavis]

or a vampire's tea...

[Asker]

Yea that is a vampirian refreshing beverage

[Nick_Halden]

You literally shove it in the bullet wound and it expands, then you wrap the wound and apply pressure with a pad over the area. That's what a combat medic told me. I'm sure it depends on the nature of the bullet wound though.

[WhiteSteve]

Hmmm, depends on the caliber….🤔

In seriousness, no, haha. Need to put heavy pressure on it with a shirt or towel or something. If it’s a limb shot, tie it off above the wound with a belt, a shoelace, a torn shirt, whatever, and try to keep it elevated higher than the heart.

[Asker]

So what caliber is a tampon? 🤔

[laly520]

not recommended
they r designed only for periods not suitable for managing traumatic injuries
otherwise applying pressure n controlling bleeding through proper first aid techniques can significantly improve the chances of survival n not ending up x. x

[Asker]

What about if you use double tampons? ☻

[laly520]

at this point just use a pad kek

[Asker]

Does it have the sticky stuck on the edges or something like a bandaid so it sticks without wrapping it?

[Asker]

Stuff*

[laly520]

yes it does
some have sticky edges n some only sticky on the bottom

[Asker]

Those could work too, or a tampon to plug the hole and a pad over it

Wow I should become a doctor

[laly520]

yes definitely

[IslaTheWitch]

In theory, you can, to some extent. Together with some pressure it could even work, but will hurt AF...

[Asker]

Yea I think it's gonna hurt anyways tho lol

[IslaTheWitch]

putting anything into the shot hole hurts... putting there something and adding some pressure, I would bet for immediate black out lol

[Asker]

Yea imagine pouring alcohol on it or dropping something spicy on it lol

[IslaTheWitch]

ugh... no thank you!

[handsomelad70]

Well, the great boxer Sugar Ray Leonard used tampons as hand wrappings under his boxing gloves to cushion the effects of hitting his opponents' head.

[DagonbroughtMehere]

No.
It takes almost 4 yards of 4 inch wide gauze to pack one bullet wound. Deconstruct a tampon and you will find a piece of cotton wadding about 12 inches by 4 inches.

Females who have a heavy monthly period will tell you they go through multiple tampons a day to absorb a period’s blood.

The best practice for traumatic bleeding is direct pressure. The tampon does not provide direct pressure.

A tampon placed in the entry or exit wound, will not prevent bleeding into the interior of the body, so serious bleeding can continue.

Although tampons have been widely touted as a makeshift intervention, there are no studies showing they are effective in stopping hemorrhage.

In short, use tampons for the use they were intended. Carry a roll of packing gauze instead. Or stay in cover.

[Katie1964]

Yes,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/padded-account/

[Asker]

Holy crap, I knew the shape of them looked like bullet hole patches lol

[DJB72]

It's possible but very dangerous.

Bullets do weird stuff once they impact depending on what they're made of, trajectory, velocity, angle of impact, collision with bone, etc. I've seen a.303 round ricochet off a sandbag and break a window. Bullets do scary shit. I think that's their point.

[FunkyMonkee]

I would think it's a good ploy. My only worry would be any loose fragments from it getting stuck to the wound. I've heard a few people say they put one of their nose to stop a nose bleed so...

[Asker]

Yea but I don't think you'd die from that would You? Lol

[FunkyMonkee]

What, a nose bleed or tampon fragments stuck to the wound?

[Asker]

Tampon pieces, it can get infected but will it kill you?

[FunkyMonkee]

No, they'd only be as thin as a hair. Hit the wound with alcohol, first to reduce the chances of infection.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Yeah but you still have apply pressure or it's not going to matter. Not like they're going to plug the hole and be done with it.

[Asker]

Lmao imagine, like patching a jar 💀

[BoopBoopBeep]

Some people think it's like recorking a bottle of wine or something, but the cavitation isn't hard and without pressure the tampon would just get full and back out eventually with what little blood pressure is still left pushing it out. Now if you happened to miss all the veins and arteries then a pair of compression socks and a bandaid will get you to the hospital, but an inch over and you're using clamps or a tourniquet or you aren't making it through the red light.

[Asker]

I wanna replace all my veins with Kevlar veins, veins made of Kevlar

[BoopBoopBeep]

I hear you, except your veins need to be able to expand and contract, so much harder to coat than bone would be,

[Asker]

Yea we need alien technology then lol

[susie22]

Interesting question, but how many people really know anything about a bullet wound, pain level, blood loss, etc? In theory I'd say yes, but if that were to happen I think you would use anything available at the time.

[TheorionMage]

Ideally, you're looking to stem the bleeding, preferably with as sterile a medium as convenient. This SHORT term! Military use sterile compression dressings to get you to a trauma center~

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I think it would hurt too much, even if its the smallest and thin sized tampons.

[Asker]

Perhaps 🤔

[PBandJ_Nerd]

Best to use a maxi pad for the bleeding instead.

[Asker]

Yea someone else recommended that as well lol

[PBandJ_Nerd]

They're pretty sanitary so great for big bleeds.

[Asker]

I didn't know that lol

[V_Injector]

I usually cut off the victim's

fingers and stick them in all their holes.

[exitseven]

sounds reasonable to me. Better that bleeding to death.

[Asker]

Lmao simple logic sometimes is just the best logic 😂

[handsomelad70]

As the 60's band The Barbarians sang in '65,"Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?"

[Asker]

What? 😂

[handsomelad70]

I'm 70, that's why I remember the Barbarians.

[PrettyCrumblBb]

Dude I misread that 🤣 I thought u said "butt holes"

[Asker]

Now that would just be unhygenic 😂

[PrettyCrumblBb]

🏠 🚑 🏥

[4ngelic]

theoretically that would work but i think that might have a high risk of toxic shock syndrome

[andreasderjuengere]

If your organs are torn, that won't do much.
Tieing of the injured limb, or a compression bandage work better, I'd say.

[sheikalana]

No! Never. You can go into TSS. Is just best to apply pressure on the wound on the way to the hospital.

[dustybiker2]

I'm no professional, but I think they say "add pressure" for a reason. Tampons would just turn a gunshot victim into a filtered pump. My guess.

[AlcoholicAngel]

Tampons expand, so they would rip a bigger hole as they absorb more blood.

[euniestars]

I think periods and a bullet hole are a little bit different 😭

[Asker]

They are both a bleeding hole, sounds like a similarity to me lmao

[euniestars]

Well ig ur gonna have to find out if a tampon works

[Asker]

Yep, what caliber would you say a tampon is? 💀

[euniestars]

Alright now that’s enough 💀

[Asker]

Damn I was really looking forward to an answer 🙃

[euniestars]

I know nothing about guns bruh

[Asker]

Shame... on... you 🙂👉

[euniestars]

Okay shut up now

[Asker]

🤐🤐🤐

[euniestars]

MHMMM AS U SHOULD

[Asker]

Hmm 🤔🤔

Now ima talk cause my ego got shooketh 😂

[euniestars]

Aww ur ego got hurt

[Asker]

Hurt more than your period cramps, how dare you hurt my innocent little soul, shame... on... you 😂👉

[euniestars]

It hurt that much 💀

[Asker]

No but you felt powerful for a sec didn't you heehee

[euniestars]

I am powerful 😌

[Asker]

Pfff yea okay 😂

[euniestars]

IM STRONGER THAN U LOOOL

[Asker]

Yea sure okay 5'2, i can't hear you down there 😂😌

[euniestars]

5’1 actually, get it right 🤡

[Asker]

It's okay don't worry *pats head*

[euniestars]

Ur like what 5’5?

[Asker]

5'10, which makes you small

[euniestars]

That’s not that big of a difference

[Asker]

Funny how it's the short stuff saying so 😂

[Anonymous]

One of the best things to keep in a first aid kit. Heard this from several army combat medics.

[Opinion Owner]

As I explained above, since I wasn't clear here: "You literally shove it in the bullet wound and it expands, then you wrap the wound and apply pressure with a pad over the area. That's what a combat medic told me. I'm sure it depends on the nature of the bullet wound though."

[KrakenAttackin]

Yes, and there are tampon shaped Celox/quick clot charges to stop heavy bleeding in combat casualties.

[Agape93]

Yeah, that's why they were invented

[Asker]

They must not have worked well if they are used for periods now tho

[Agape93]

Actually they worked well. But when world War was over, the company wanted to keep making them but had no buyers now, so, they rebranded it as a product for women

[Miah04]

Bruh. You got some weird thoughts 😂

[Asker]

You call it weird, I call it creative :3

[Miah04]

😂😂😂

[LaurenM1997]

No nothing slows down the flows

[Asker]

Well there is this spray in some first aid kits that clogs blood, you spray it and the blood starts to harden, put that on a rag or bandage over the hole and that can work but if you pour that on a tampon, more effective? 🤔

[BoopBoopBeep]

Most CFC (clotting factor concentrates) actually perform poorer sprayed on fabric. The blood will clot there and form a less permeable layer, which will then delaminate from the wound and allow the blood to flow between it and whatever is holding it on if it isn't really cinched down in place. When it's sprayed in the wound it's done so in order to get the clot to form there, but even that isn't going to work on a retracted major artery.

[CharlotteNoivern]

Not sure sorry

[Jennz6]

That’s a good temporary fix

[noohair]

Molotov cocktails.