Originally posted by Princess-Puppy~
Yes. Some people lick their blood.
I wake up, my tongue hurts, I don't know why, so I start falling back to sleep, then I taste blood, I stick my finger in my mouth, I snap on my reading light, I look at my finger, it's covered with blood, I get up, rinse my mouth out for about five minutes, the bleeding stops, I go back to bed.
The next day, my tongue is sore and has bumps on it. True story. 🙁
Originally posted by Tired Hiker
Twice in the past two weeks I've bit my tongue in my sleep, waking up to a mouthful of blood. It's a weird phenomenon, I guess. It goes like this . . .I wake up, my tongue hurts, I don't know why, so I start falling back to sleep, then I taste blood, I stick my finger in my mouth, I snap on my reading light, I look at my finger, it's covered with blood, I get up, rinse my mouth out for about five minutes, the bleeding stops, I go back to bed.
The next day, my tongue is sore and has bumps on it. True story. 🙁
No need to fret unless one night you wake up, throw up, crap yourself, urinate everywhere, and pretty much eliminate everything from your body that isn't blood or organs. And if after that you see in shades of purple and have enhanced senses and a need for blood, start worrying...
According to Anne Rice 😖hifty:
Originally posted by Dark Urizen
That's funny because it's wrong 🙁One of the contents of saliva:
Antibacterial compounds (thiocyanate, hydrogen peroxide, and secretory immunoglobulin A)
Hm... youre right. My bad. Wounds in a mouth heal much quicker indeed than anywhere else. Animals lick their wounds.
But as a nurse, with a pierced tong, exposed to (severe) trauma wounds have to wear mounthcaps. It must be than that the bacteria can only do 'damage' to others?
Originally posted by Rave X
Hm... youre right. My bad. Wounds in a mouth heal much quicker indeed than anywhere else. Animals lick their wounds.
But as a nurse, with a pierced tong, exposed to (severe) trauma wounds have to wear mounthcaps. It must be than that the bacteria can only do 'damage' to others?
No prob 🙂
Nope, fear of HIV and other hundreds of diseases that are easily transmitted through internal fluid contact.
You'd be surprised at the number of pacients that cough up blood or saliva, or are just plain junkies that spit the nurses inthe face. It's a precaution for their own health.
Originally posted by Dark Urizen
No prob 🙂Nope, fear of HIV and other hundreds of diseases that are easily transmitted through internal fluid contact.
You'd be surprised at the number of pacients that cough up blood or saliva, or are just plain junkies that spit the nurses inthe face. It's a precaution for their own health.
I dont mean diseases, I mean that saliva can infect a wound. Because if you had a severe wound and I'd spit in it the risk for infection is much greater then when you spit in it yourself, because you have other bacteria in your saliva than I have
Originally posted by Rave X
I dont mean diseases, I mean that saliva can infect a wound. Because if you had a severe wound and I'd spit in it the risk for infection is much greater then when you spit in it yourself, because you have other bacteria in your saliva than I have
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Where did you get this from???
Humans don't have bacteria in their saliva (unless we're talking hobos that eat from the garbage can). So if you spit in my wound or i spit in my wound, the same anti-bacteria in all humans' saliva (the ones i enumerated a few posts back) would help with the healing process....
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Originally posted by Dark Urizen
😕Where did you get this from???
Humans don't have bacteria in their saliva (unless we're talking hobos that eat from the garbage can). So if you spit in my wound or i spit in my wound, the same anti-bacteria in all humans' saliva (the ones i enumerated a few posts back) would help with the healing process....😕
Humans do have bacteria in their saliva right? I've seen tests on tv (kinda hard to explain in Englisch, since my native language is Dutch) where they test for example food that has been laying on the floor for 5 seconds to see how much bacteria it gained compared the the same food that hasnt. That way they have tested saliva... or am I not making any sence at all and have I confused two things badly? 😕
I'll see if I can look it up on the internet
Originally posted by Rave X
Humans do have bacteria in their saliva right? I've seen tests on tv (kinda hard to explain in Englisch, since my native language is Dutch) where they test for example food that has been laying on the floor for 5 seconds to see how much bacteria it gained compared the the same food that hasnt. That way they have tested saliva... or am I not making any sence at all and have I confused two things badly? 😕
I'll see if I can look it up on the internet
I think you're confusing things. If you ate something that was on the floor it would have bacteria, but the anti-bacteria in your saliva would fight it and most likely win.
Normally, there isn't bacteria in your mouth.