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Supple Cow · 08-20-2004, 12:55 PM

I used to get nosebleeds all the time. For a while, I would just let the blood run into the sink while I held an ice pack to the bridge of my nose so that I could get the blood to clot but not have to swallow a lot of it first, but that always left a hell of a clean-up job.

My friend just taught me a new technique (not quite sure how it works, but it sure does): take a little piece of napkin or paper towel, about an inch wide and 1.5-2 inches long and fold/roll it up so that about 3/4 cm thick around and semi-cylindrical. Then, stick it up under your upper lip (above the gums) as far as it will go. The wad of paper should be small enough so that you can pull your lip over it and not have to hold it in place, but big enough to apply a good amount of pressure to that little membrane that lives there.

The bleeding stops within a minute or so when I do this. That way, I only need one tissue to catch the rest of the blood that flows before it stops and the clean-up is easy. It looks pretty funny, too. You can give your friends a kick next time the old schnoz bleeds.

08-20-2004, 12:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
Supple Cow Americow, the Beautiful Location: Washington, D.C.	I used to get nosebleeds all the time. For a while, I would just let the blood run into the sink while I held an ice pack to the bridge of my nose so that I could get the blood to clot but not have to swallow a lot of it first, but that always left a hell of a clean-up job. My friend just taught me a new technique (not quite sure how it works, but it sure does): take a little piece of napkin or paper towel, about an inch wide and 1.5-2 inches long and fold/roll it up so that about 3/4 cm thick around and semi-cylindrical. Then, stick it up under your upper lip (above the gums) as far as it will go. The wad of paper should be small enough so that you can pull your lip over it and not have to hold it in place, but big enough to apply a good amount of pressure to that little membrane that lives there. The bleeding stops within a minute or so when I do this. That way, I only need one tissue to catch the rest of the blood that flows before it stops and the clean-up is easy. It looks pretty funny, too. You can give your friends a kick next time the old schnoz bleeds. __________________ "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan)