According to a study conducted by the Detroit
Medical Center, bacon can quickly and effectively treat a
nosebleed by serving as a nasal tampon. For this bizarre method
to work, one must plug the bleeding nostril with a piece of
cured uncooked pork.
The team tested their
bacon hypothesis on a girl who had Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a
rare hereditary disease that causes prolonged bleeding. After
sticking a piece of cured pork inside the girl’s bloody nose,
the bleeding stopped immediately.
The results of this
scientific research were published in the Annals of Otology,
Rhinology, and Laryngology. The researchers acknowledged that
doctors had used cured pork to treat nosebleeds in the past.
However, the practice was discontinued.
The researchers
speculated that the high risk of acquiring parasitic and
bacterial complications from stuffing one’s nose with cured pork
caused the unconventional treatment to be abandoned.