OT: Life Threatening Nosebleed-4yo saved-Army doctor's cure.

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Got a nosebleed? Shove salted pork up it. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2093267/Cured-Girl-4-saved-life-threatening-nosebleed-salted-pork-nostrils.html> Cured: Girl, 4,

saved from life-threatening nosebleed after salted pork is put up her nostrils By Mail

On Sunday Reporter Last updated at

11:32 PM on 28th January 2012 ·

Slices

of the meat from a local supermarket in Detroit were cut into narrow strips and

placed inside the four-year-old's nasal cavities A

girl with a life-threatening nosebleed was cured when doctors put salted pork

up her nostrils. Slices

of the meat from a local supermarket were cut into narrow strips and placed

inside the four-year-old’s nasal cavities. Over

the next 48 hours, her condition improved and she left hospital with no further

bleeding. 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. More...

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Her

family gave permission before the meat was used. Surgeon

Ian Humphreys said: ‘We bought it from a regular supermarket and cut it

to size.’ The

pork, which has been salt-cured and is different from bacon, was used to cure

nosebleeds in the 19th century but fell out of favour in the Forties because

modern drugs and medical sponges were considered more effective. It

is thought the heavy salt content causes tissue in the nose to swell, cutting

off the bleeding. The

pork itself may also have another unknown property. It

should not be used on normal nosebleeds due to the infection risk. 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