To All: The “blood stopper” you can get right now to stop blood pouring from a wound, is Celox. At the bottom of this post, I'll put the link to the Amazon page selling Celox. Once you are looking at that page for the single packets of 10 in a case, scroll down and you will see various other ways they package Celox.
Have a lot of blood from a wound, too much blood for just pressure to stop quickly - rip open small package of Celox and pour the powder on the wound (turns to gel as it stops bleeding), apply pressure, and blood will stop flowing within 10 seconds to minutes according to the severity of the cut/wound.
Celox is used by paramedics and the military on the battlefield. Perhaps this new gel type will be better/faster on the battlefield, but we don't have that now, but we do have Celox we can afford right now.
Now, let me tell you what happened to me a few weeks ago- my Celox is in my “save your life” emergency medical bag. I was in Corpus Christi and, coming back, went to the town where my townhouse is. I was going to do serious work in the garden in back of my townhouse; we are within two blocks of the house, and I put my right hand down into the storage compartment on my door, felt bad pain, jerked hand up and there was blood pouring from my right ring finger.
Months before, just before getting out of car, I took a metal lid off a small can of nuts, and put the metal lid in that car door holder, meaning to take it out later. I forgot that lid was there.
We put a band aid with antibiotic already in the strip and wrapped the finger pretty tightly to stop the blood - it did not want to stop as it was a deep cut. I put hand in big heavy duty work gloves to work outside in the garden.
So, we spend the night at a hotel. In the middle of the night, the finger woke me up with throbbing. Went in bathroom, took some effort to get band aid off, and the cut started bleeding like a river. Got blood on sink and floor. Put on pressure and got another band aid on it but it didn't want to stop bleeding.
When we left that hotel, I figured with all the bloody Kleenex in bathroom, they would think someone had been attacked and bled to death.
I tell you that story to say this: I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE NOT HAVING CELOX WITH ME. I now have three packets of Celox in my suitcase and two packets in the car.
Get some Celox and put some in whatever you carry every time you leave on a trip. Also, make sure there is a couple of packets in your car.
You can buy Celox right now, not later when this new one is on the market some many months or years from now.
http://www.amazon.com/CELOX-Temporary-Traumatic-Treatment-10-Pack/dp/B0032UY9BQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1434992167&sr=8-3&keywords=Celox
Ah, Marcella, the voice from the trenches.
The Bride swears by Quik-Clot, which she used and we still pack (not sure if it’s a brand-name difference from Celox).
Great advice as always. Thanks for posting this. I’m going to print it off to add to my Marcella’s tips file.