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This is called a double humiliation.
Posted on 02/15/2010 7:42:05 AM PST by Kensy1
Feminine hygiene products just aren’t for women anymore, a dog can benefit too.
A suburban Atlanta couple learned that in case of an emergency, a maxi pad works just as well as any commercially available bandage does for a dog.
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A friend of mine, who happens to be an avid hunter, always keeps a few in his truck. When I asked him why, he said they are the best compression bandages money can buy.
This is called a double humiliation.
I highly recommend buying a real compression bandage instead. A maxi-pad is designed to keep a woman 'dry' so to speak. It does this by absorbing blood to keep it away from the body. It is the exact opposite of what you want. You want to trap the blood at the site of the wound so it can begin clotting and stopping the flow of blood. Using a maxi-pad when there are other alternatives, even a cotton shirt will do, is just stupid and will help kill your patient faster.
LOL - poor dog!
Bo has grinch feet.
Glad you’re still with us, Bo.
Absolutely.
As an EMT, we always carried and used Kotex in the ambulance as it is not sterile environment anyway. There is not a better compression bandage made.
Yep have at least one in each of my kits.
bttt
Part of my first aid kit too as well as duct tape ...
We did not carry them our ambulance that I know of. But
back when I was in the Boy Scouts, the Fire Chief for my
town was the instructor for the first aid merit badge and
he swore by them.
Mike
These pads are referred to as “trauma pads” in most large firstaid kits, and they work just fine for humans as well as animals.
Be sure and apply to the wrong side of the pad not the absorbent side
It is difficult to argue with a hundred years of proven success. :)
They were a perfect fit for the inside of the waveguide, on a high power radar system, that had gotten flooded with coolant water.
When one end was tied with a string, they could be pulled through the waveguide sections, drying them out quickly.
This enabled us to return a critical Sea Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Detection and Warning system back to operation.
Of course, the young airman took some teasing about coming to the checkout with every box of product in the (small) commissary in his cart.
One of our crew's wife was working the checkout that day and he had called her with a heads up, so she held her teasing to a minimum.
You TAPE the pads firmly to the wound and as the pad expands, it actually gets tighter on the wound as the tape soon won’t allow much more room for expansion. The clotting factors in the blood that get into the pad are further squeezed and compressed into the wound. It’s all in
the way you tape the pad...tape too loosely and you have excess bleeding, tape snugly and the pad can’t expand beyond the limits of the taping. The maxi pads are much better than continued use of a tournequet as you have directed pressure at the site.
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