Bacon: A 'surprising' cure for nosebleeds?

Unable to stop the life-threatening nasal hemorrhages of a 4-year-old girl, doctors from Detroit Medical Center enlist the "curative powers of cured pork"

When faced with an unending nose bleed, doctors went for the unorthodox, rolled-up, uncooked bacon approach to put a stop to the hemorrhage.
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Believe it or not, using cured salted pork as a "nasal tampon" was once a common method for treating nosebleeds. The practice eventually fell out of favor, but physicians at the Detroit Medical Center recently gave the old cure a try, and used the salty breakfast staple to stop a 4-year-old girl's rare, life-threatening nasal hemorrhages. Score one for bacon fans? Here's what you should know:

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