How do you react to blood?

[sms_117b]

Keep that finger high above your head and drink some sugar water if it's bleeding a lot. I'm a lifeguard.

I'm curious, what's with the sugar water? Never heard that before. I'd have suggested applying pressure instead.

I'm a certified EMT with almost a year of active work now. I've bandaged fleshwounds, I've seen really bloody cases of <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematochezia>hematochezia, <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematuria>makrohematuria, a lot of fractures and I think I'd rather stop here because I could go on.
It's fun though.

sugar water dissolves the sugar into your system faster, this causes you to produce more red blood cells, replaces a lot of blood (not enough that potentially fatal blood lose wounds could recover but enough for day to day mending of things) it's a wrestling trick, drinking a lot of sugar water before a match you ned to bleed in makes the blood really red and stops you from losing too much

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Depends whos it is and in what quantity...

For example
If it was mine and I was only bleeding alittle.. I wouldnt be too concerned.

If it happened to be someone else and the bleeding was quite bad. I would be concerned.

If however it was my girlfriend...... I'll wait a few days and avoid doing anything to annoy her.

 

[fragmaster09]

I ask because a few minutes ago, I accidentally sliced my finger open while handling a knife and it's bleeding more than I thought it would. So because of the lack of plasters etc, I'm sitting here wiping away excess and I don't remember seeing this thread before. So how do you react to blood, and any stories of you/friends fainting, or anything?

Edit: another thing I was thinking about was that after a certain age I stopped using plasters and just let it dry/heal on its own. Anyone else have that?

same thing as the edit

and to American readers 'plasters' don't mean what goes on broken limbs, it's what you call 'band-aids'

i react to MY blood by clamping my hand/finger over it and waiting 'till it stops

i react to OTHERS' blood by my eyes fizzing and me losing my balance, the same as when i walk into a hospital

 

[The K-man]

Considering the amount of my own ive seen in my lifetime, it doesnt bother me. From nosebleeds that can last hours, to falling off a waterfall when i was a kid, and even a couple weeks ago when i hit my hand with a battleaxe, blood just doesnt phase me.

 

[fragmaster09]

Depends whos it is and in what quantity...

For example
If it was mine and I was only bleeding alittle.. I wouldnt be too concerned.

If it happened to be someone else and the bleeding was quite bad. I would be concerned.

If however it was my girlfriend...... I'll wait a few days and avoid doing anything to annoy her.

win... the 3rd... i chuckled a little...

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm a girl so... you know... doesn't bother me.

 

[loodmoney]

Anywhere between "Oh, that's weird", "Uh, excuse me I think you're supposed to be inside me" and "I'm just gonna pass out a sec, hope that's not weird". Depends how much and where from.

(Re: that last part in quotation marks Yeah, I fainted when the pretty nurse was taking my blood. I am the epitome of manliness.

 

[kittii-chan 300]

well i knd of like blood and seriously drink my own...
when me and my freind got to my new appartment he cut himself while cooking. i kind of put his finger in my mouth and drank his blood... i hopefully wont do that to strangers... >.> <.<

 

[fragmaster09]

Considering the amount of my own ive seen in my lifetime, it doesnt bother me. From nosebleeds that can last hours, to falling off a waterfall when i was a kid, and even a couple weeks ago when i hit my hand with a battleaxe, blood just doesnt phase me.

okay... you fall off WATERFALS and HIT YOURSELF WITH BATTLEAXES... why do you even have a battleaxe? and who on earth lets their kids play in waterfalls?!

 

[AwesomeNinjaPowers]

Dosen't bother me in the slightest. Either my own or someone elses

 

[tombman888]

Well, if i get a cut like that, i'll wash it clean, lick it, then bandage it. Blood doesn't bother me much, unless, you know, its spraying itself from a severed limb or something... in which case i think the blood will be the last thing to freak me out.

 

[Marmalade]

If it's my own I sometimes laugh other times I don't really react.
Sometimes I taste it.

If it's someone else I ask them if they are okay.

 

[The K-man]

I had been hiking with my dad by a waterfall, the ground simply broke out from underneath me. The battleaxe on the other hand, belongs to my friend.

 

[MassiveGeek]

I drink it.

Slurp slurp slurp.

 

[RivFader86]

I don't react in any special way to blood cut a tendon in my hand and it was streaming all over my hand with no problems....however...when they pulled the stitches in my hand i nearly fainted (hadn't eaten all day and it was a hot summers day)

 

[Artina89]

Blood doesn't phase me at all. I had nearly all of my lectures at the university hospital and in order to get to the lecture rooms I had to wander through the patients area. If I was perturbed every time I saw blood I would have never got out of bed and gone to lectures. I have also found out that death in general doesn't really bother me.

 

[E.Blackadder]

Fine if it's mine. Just put pressure on it then plaster it simply so it stops getting blood all over me. Other peoples blood I tend to physically stay away from.

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

As a severe haemophiliac and an apprentice tattooist (Inbetween apprenticeships,) blood doesn't faze me at all. If I get a cut it don't stress me, I just suck on em till I can find a bandage. Everyone else around me however freaks out and has kittens hahaha.

 

[Woodsey]

I dunno, its just blood (nearly wrote "blud" - my ghetto past is coming back to haunt me, evidently). I'm not entirely sure what could make you feel sick or pass out from it.

Piss, grog and shit are all more disgusting, and much more frequent.

 

[Bobbity]

I'm generally fine with blood, but there have been a couple of instances in which I was a little put off.

e.g. On camp, one of my friends is cutting up stuff for dinner, and he slices a massive gash all the way down his palm, which didn't stop bleeding for quite a while. That wasn't so fun...