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Before the unusual treatment, the girl, who has a rare bleeding disorder, had been in intensive care for five days with surgeons unable to stop the blood loss.
Operations and conventional treatment had failed to work, she needed regular transfusions and she was on a ventilator.
Doctors at Detroit Medical Centre feared she might need a highly risky procedure which could have left her blind or caused her body to begin attacking its own cells.
But then a doctor who had served in the military recalled being told to use salt pork on the battlefield to cure a nosebleed and decided to try it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2093267/Cured-Girl-4-saved-life-threatening-nosebleed-salted-pork-nostrils.html#ixzz1krNI6YKv
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)There's an extra "put".
JSnuffy
(374 posts)I remember a nasty cut I got in the field and my bandage kept working loose, from sweat and dirt, and the wound kept reopening.
Eventually someone stuck some pine sap on it and that sucker stayed shut for days. Supposedly there is some anti-microbacterial stuff in there as well.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)So, yes, it can't make me feel well. That's something it can't do.
(The "everything tastes better with bacon" line foisted on society by The Food Network is an affront to every Jew, Muslim and people who can't eat pork for dietary reason and a pet peeve of mine.)
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Religion is a choice.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Not eating it.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Doesn't sound like "put up her nostrils" to me.