[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Paul B. at 19 Dec 2002 21:33:49: Bleeding and control
As an answer to: Re: bleeding written by Rood at 19 Dec 2002 15:32:52:
> Hmmm...on the question of bleeding from a torn frenulum: "...usually brief, albeit messy, self-limiting". How much bleeding is common, usually, enough to soak the bed sheets and ruin them, as one intact son told his "cut" father? Or would said son have been hiding some other problem.
Who knows!
I go back to the previous comment. You cut anything out in the garden. or your finger on the kitchen knife - it makes a mess. Sometimes a big mess, but mostly not.
The fraenulum contains a small artery, as does the finger (tip) and possibly the hymen. If you cut that, it bleeds longer, unless you have the presence of mind to put a tissue or towel on it and hold it tight a few minutes. Fortunately, most fingers I see have had this done already and that makes patching them up much easier.
The scalp bleeds like stink too! I was just chatting a couple of days ago at work (one of them, anyway), and it was noted that a proportion of people recovered from road accidents unconscious for some period, require transfusion merely from uncontrolled blood loss from the scalp, having been carefully checked and found to have no internal injuries to explain the loss.