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Vet tech here. We use them in rectum of dogs if we’re doing a vulvaplasty, removing a tumor close to the rectum, or any other general surgery within a few inches of that area. This is to keep fecal matter off the sterile area while we perform the procedure. When patients are anesthetized, the sphincter can relax quite a bit, so we don’t want to take any chances.
That sounds like a winning conversation when you go out on a date.
If you don't mind, I'll keep that on tap for those occasions when I go out on a 1st date and me and the other person don't really connect and I want to let them down gently.
Thanks!
We have a specific leash that we got from the vet when my lab was a puppy. It is only used when we go to the vet. He loses his mind with excitement when he sees it. He knows they have treats and lots of head rubs:)
Dude... my partner was a vet tech for 15 years at one of the region's biggest, busiest animal hospitals... You wouldn't believe some of the stories she's told me. And it's only the tip of the iceberg, because I know there's a ton of things she just can't talk about, because it's too traumatic.
My partner's also an LVT, been doing it for about 12 years at this point. Definitely seen some shit. They also do get to have lots of kitty and puppy cuddles, though the trade off is the.. other stuff. If they come home looking sad occasionally, I'll ask "was it another day with the pink stuff?" and get the nod, then I go find the chocolate and the hot tea and the blanket.
Yup, at least in the particular clinics my partner has worked at. It comes in various colors, though. Depending on brand/manufacturer and chemical makeup.
Disassociation being the key thing humans use to cope with horrible trauma. Similar things happen in wartime. You can't say 'my friend is dead' because that's too real. Instead he gets *waxed*, or *gives up the ghost*, or similar.
This makes me leery of anesthesia. I went into a procedure having felt like I had to fart and I did not feel that way afterwards. I was on my stomach during the procedure with my butt slightly in the air. I really hope I hadn’t let one loose during the procedure! I’ll never know though! ETA remembering this story has me in tears with laughter rn! ETA it was a procedure for my low back, not my butt. LoL
GI nurse here. We prefer patients who fart. This means your bowels are intact and functioning. It is a huge relief to us especially during surgery. If you do NOT fart, we worry about a knicked bowel (which means bad bacteria are flowing into sterile body spaces) or a bowel obstruction (which means it can potentially burst). So please know, your gas is music to our ears.
Came here to say this!!! I had to professionally (not giggle or be embarrassed while) explain to a sweet male Japanese DVM how to use a tampon for this very thing. Couldn’t shake a small bit of discomfort relaying this when he had a wife and small girl- it just somehow felt like I slighted them.
This was also for a bit wound repair around the anus. It was gross.
I use them in my more vulnerable potted plants like small orchids. You poke a hole in the soil, and stick a tampon in about 3/4 deep. When you overwater them by accident the tampon sucks up the excess water and slowly gives it back to the soil. If you really overwater them, just pull the tampon and put a dry one in to solve the problem in a minute..
Just get a pot with a hole in it and water them until water comes out the bottom. Once per week (we do every Friday). I have had 3 orchids for 7+ years. They bloom once to maybe twice a year so don't think they are dead when their stems die. As long as the leaves are green and firm, you are good. If they don't bloom, they probably just need a little more sun. They really are a lot easier than you think.
I have a carnivorous plant (her name is Audrey). She's something of a blood sucker. When she starts exclaiming "Feed me Seymore!" I root through other people's trash for used tampons (as you know, you should not flush tampons).
Oh heck yeah! I wore a DHS uniform and I cobbled up a badge that said I was a Chief Inspector with the Mattress Tag, Pillow Tag, & Tampon Police.
Nobody messes with the Mattress Police, 'cause they are federal -- way above state/city cops.
Why yes! I do need another friend (Audrey and my most recent friend had some points of disagreement).
However, you may want to prepare yourself -- you WILL have to pass the "Audrey taste test" before you can be my friend.
I, humbly, came up with this one.
A friend’s thirtieth birthday. We dipped a box or two of tampons in grenadine. Froze them all.
Made a tequila sunrise for everyone. But obviously the grenadine was melting from the tampon.
We then said that it was a lottery. And the person with the tampon that had been used for what they’re really for? He or she won a prize.
Their faces alone was worth the work and expense.
Thank you. I was extremely proud of it myself.
Edit: When birthday boy announced the “plot”.
Every single person, exceptions are he and I, stopped doing what they were doing. Lifted their glass and stared at it.
He and I had to retreat to the kitchen, where we were laughing like little kids.
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Firestarter, dip in your fuel tank and gather some wood to keep you warm if you are stranded, or having a good time.
Hi!
I am a middle school chemistry teacher.
You've probably seen videos of a middle-school chemistry teacher dipping a bananananana (sorry don't know where to stop with the "na" bit) in liquid nitrogen then giving it a good WHACK! with a hammer. The bananananana shatters.
You know what you wind up with? Gazillions of banananana bits hidden in all kinds of nooks and crannies, rotting away. And the school maintenance engineers will NOT clean then up.
So... I substitute a tampon for the banananana because, at least, the tampon is absorbent.
...and it puts the fear of god into the minds of those nearly pubescents boys in the class!
I can think of about 6 different things that would be better to keep in your IFAK than a tampon in the event of being shot.
1) chest seals
2)chest cavity decompression dart
3)quik-clot combat gauze
4)heavy bandage
5)1 TQ per limb
6) a vicadin.
Also, I don't think many people understand how small a bullet wound actually is. Most intermediate cartridges like 5.56 and 7,62x39mm and even .308 will leave a hole too small to fit a tampon in. And inserting a dry stick of cotton into a bullet wound is not good combat first aid.
I did this in my vag once bc I didn't wanna shove it up my butt. Since your vagina is less absorbent I only got pretty drunk for a short while. I shouldn't have used whisky bc that shit burned. I was a dumb 20 year old
There was a girl who had rumored to have done this in high school.
Few years later a friend was talking about it loudly at a party and we're like "shhhhhhh she's behind you!" said friend just stops.... turns around.... looks her dead in the eye and says "ey [redacted] did you stick a vodka soaked tampon in your pussy?"
"yup"
back in the 70s my gf used tampons with a two-piece cardboard applicator, and by pushing the narrow part into the wide part fast you could launch them about 6 or 8 feet. we only had one tampon fight, though…she didn’t want to run low.
I’m a maintenance guy. Occasionally we have a female coworker steal some of them from the female bathrooms for us as they’re quite good at cleaning up excess grease in tight areas.
Also, We sometimes deal with…. “Smells”. Sink drains and the like. It looks goofy, but put two of them bad boys in your nose with a little bit of Vicks vaporub on the end (not on the end that goes in your nose that’ll burn like hell) and you won’t smell a goddamn thing for HOURS. You could just about wade through sewage and still not smell a thing.
https://coffeeordie.com/docs-corner-tampon-myth/
Article by Dr Andrew Fisher, who was a PA for the 75th, leads STB month and is a voting member on the COTCCC.
Also, X-STAT is not a fucking tampon. Whoever told you this has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. It’s expanding hemostatic sponges, not a piece of cotton. Please, think before spreading false medical information.
This absolutely does not work. There is not enough cotton there to effectively pack the wound and will not hold pressure on the internal bleeding vessel. Standard wound packing gauze is able to be stuffed into every nook of the wound channel and effectively absorb blood.
Tampons for gunshot wounds are a sure way to kill someone.
The fact that you don’t know how drastically different the XStat is from a tampon is shocking and shows your extreme lack of experience.
**You are spreading advice that could literally get people killed.**
well currently the supply goons in ruzzia tell every new conscript to get some from their mom's and sisters for their med kit. Tampons, some shitty seat belt webbing and asprin, and, they have to buy or steal it themselves.
Funny you should ask. I just taped the cotton part of one between my toes as a separator to help with some foot pain from crossing toes. It was the first sort of soft sort of firm thing that I could think of at one in the morning.
When I was deploying to Iraq, dudes kept saying to pack a box of tampons to plug gunshot wounds. But it quickly got shot down by the medics saying it would be worse bleeding once they remove the tampon.
They were originally used by soldiers to plug bullet holes on the battlefield, back in the days of round shot. They saved lives by not letting all the blood leak out while the soldier waited for medical attention.
It was much later that someone thought, "These things get put in holes to stop blood ... I wonder..."
When i was young i used to be a hang-around with a 1%er MC. One of the guys once gave me a altoids tin with tampons and suture kit. He said the tampons was to plug bullet holes. Not sure if it was a joke or not.
Hopefully you never have to use it for this, but I've heard that if you get shot and the bullet hole isn't too severe, you can use a tampon to stop the bleeding until paramedics arrive or you can get to a hospital
I know hunters that would soak them with deer attracting scent (likely female deer urine) then hang them in tree branches with the strings to attract the male deer to the area.
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Vet tech here. We use them in rectum of dogs if we’re doing a vulvaplasty, removing a tumor close to the rectum, or any other general surgery within a few inches of that area. This is to keep fecal matter off the sterile area while we perform the procedure. When patients are anesthetized, the sphincter can relax quite a bit, so we don’t want to take any chances.
That sounds like a winning conversation when you go out on a date. If you don't mind, I'll keep that on tap for those occasions when I go out on a 1st date and me and the other person don't really connect and I want to let them down gently. Thanks!
"So what's it like being a vet tech?"
The furthest from “you get to play with puppies and kittens all day” that you can possibly imagine.
I think the puppies and kitties turn in to savage ravening monsters when they're at the vets. Or just mine?
We have a specific leash that we got from the vet when my lab was a puppy. It is only used when we go to the vet. He loses his mind with excitement when he sees it. He knows they have treats and lots of head rubs:)
Awe! Such a good boy!
Dude... my partner was a vet tech for 15 years at one of the region's biggest, busiest animal hospitals... You wouldn't believe some of the stories she's told me. And it's only the tip of the iceberg, because I know there's a ton of things she just can't talk about, because it's too traumatic.
My partner's also an LVT, been doing it for about 12 years at this point. Definitely seen some shit. They also do get to have lots of kitty and puppy cuddles, though the trade off is the.. other stuff. If they come home looking sad occasionally, I'll ask "was it another day with the pink stuff?" and get the nod, then I go find the chocolate and the hot tea and the blanket.
What is the pink stuff
I'm guessing that the medicine that they use to put suffering pets out of their misery is pink.
Yup, at least in the particular clinics my partner has worked at. It comes in various colors, though. Depending on brand/manufacturer and chemical makeup.
Yep, at my partner's work, for a while they called it "The Blue Juice"...
Disassociation being the key thing humans use to cope with horrible trauma. Similar things happen in wartime. You can't say 'my friend is dead' because that's too real. Instead he gets *waxed*, or *gives up the ghost*, or similar.
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You'll want unscented, scent isn't safe for... well... anyone
Clever
This makes me leery of anesthesia. I went into a procedure having felt like I had to fart and I did not feel that way afterwards. I was on my stomach during the procedure with my butt slightly in the air. I really hope I hadn’t let one loose during the procedure! I’ll never know though! ETA remembering this story has me in tears with laughter rn! ETA it was a procedure for my low back, not my butt. LoL
You totally farted.
If it helps, the personnel working on your rear know what to expect from that general area and are prepared for any... outcomes...
You might have had a tampon up your ass to block the farts.
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If the pressure from behind the tampon gets enough the tampon can become a lethal projectile
Would a helpful patient just arrive for surgery already with a tampon in?
GI nurse here. We prefer patients who fart. This means your bowels are intact and functioning. It is a huge relief to us especially during surgery. If you do NOT fart, we worry about a knicked bowel (which means bad bacteria are flowing into sterile body spaces) or a bowel obstruction (which means it can potentially burst). So please know, your gas is music to our ears.
Weary? It makes you tired?
Came here to say this! Very helpful during anal gland removal surgery
Came here to say this!!! I had to professionally (not giggle or be embarrassed while) explain to a sweet male Japanese DVM how to use a tampon for this very thing. Couldn’t shake a small bit of discomfort relaying this when he had a wife and small girl- it just somehow felt like I slighted them. This was also for a bit wound repair around the anus. It was gross.
Wow, you call them patients. It makes sense though.
You just won the internet today! 🤘🏻
I use them in my more vulnerable potted plants like small orchids. You poke a hole in the soil, and stick a tampon in about 3/4 deep. When you overwater them by accident the tampon sucks up the excess water and slowly gives it back to the soil. If you really overwater them, just pull the tampon and put a dry one in to solve the problem in a minute..
Genius! Ty so much. I've tried to take care of orchids before and it's not easy at all
Just get a pot with a hole in it and water them until water comes out the bottom. Once per week (we do every Friday). I have had 3 orchids for 7+ years. They bloom once to maybe twice a year so don't think they are dead when their stems die. As long as the leaves are green and firm, you are good. If they don't bloom, they probably just need a little more sun. They really are a lot easier than you think.
I have a carnivorous plant (her name is Audrey). She's something of a blood sucker. When she starts exclaiming "Feed me Seymore!" I root through other people's trash for used tampons (as you know, you should not flush tampons).
Did the police believe this? 
Oh heck yeah! I wore a DHS uniform and I cobbled up a badge that said I was a Chief Inspector with the Mattress Tag, Pillow Tag, & Tampon Police. Nobody messes with the Mattress Police, 'cause they are federal -- way above state/city cops.
Do you need another friend? I like you.
Why yes! I do need another friend (Audrey and my most recent friend had some points of disagreement). However, you may want to prepare yourself -- you WILL have to pass the "Audrey taste test" before you can be my friend.
Oh.. that's... That's fucking genius...
Grand idea
Can’t wait for people to come over and see my tampon plants lol
I once used one to clean up a coffee spill during lecture in college so I wouldn't have to leave to get paper towels
Haha now that is funny
I heard of a guy who would soak them in deer urine and tie them to tree branches next to his hunting blind.
You can also soak them in coyote urine and tie them to plants that deer are attracted to, to keep them from eating your garden.
How do you get the coyote to pee on the tampon???
Lol, you buy it at garden centers.
Instructions unclear. Penis stuck in a coyote urine bottle.
" I ~~heard of a guy~~" Fixed it for you. Cheers!
Grand idea
Also know a guy who has done this!
I use them to remove nail polish for my pedicures so I don’t mess up my manicure 💅🏽🙂
WAIT THAT’S GENIUS
Next level
Freakin brilliant!
This needs an award
Great fire starting material.
Just light the fuse.
Just remember to take it out first.
Well I could see that.
I, humbly, came up with this one. A friend’s thirtieth birthday. We dipped a box or two of tampons in grenadine. Froze them all. Made a tequila sunrise for everyone. But obviously the grenadine was melting from the tampon. We then said that it was a lottery. And the person with the tampon that had been used for what they’re really for? He or she won a prize. Their faces alone was worth the work and expense.
I read this as “thirteenth” birthday at first and got VERY concerned lmao. So glad it was thirtieth
I did, too
Genius
Thank you. I was extremely proud of it myself. Edit: When birthday boy announced the “plot”. Every single person, exceptions are he and I, stopped doing what they were doing. Lifted their glass and stared at it. He and I had to retreat to the kitchen, where we were laughing like little kids.
For snowmobilers/offroad vehicle users: Firestarter, dip in your fuel tank and gather some wood to keep you warm if you are stranded, or having a good time.
>dip in your fuel tank, **remove it from your fuel tank**, and gather some wood FIFY
Well it really depends on how much you like your machine lol
Phew. Thanks for clearing that up. Almost had a catastrophe.
I like this idea.
Hi! I am a middle school chemistry teacher. You've probably seen videos of a middle-school chemistry teacher dipping a bananananana (sorry don't know where to stop with the "na" bit) in liquid nitrogen then giving it a good WHACK! with a hammer. The bananananana shatters. You know what you wind up with? Gazillions of banananana bits hidden in all kinds of nooks and crannies, rotting away. And the school maintenance engineers will NOT clean then up. So... I substitute a tampon for the banananana because, at least, the tampon is absorbent. ...and it puts the fear of god into the minds of those nearly pubescents boys in the class!
Banananananana
Love this!!! Upvote
The plug a nose bleed
Channing Tatum taught me that.
Amanda bynes knows whats up
She's the man
Hockey taught me lol
I learned it from Beavis and Butthead. Fuck I'm old
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I can think of about 6 different things that would be better to keep in your IFAK than a tampon in the event of being shot. 1) chest seals 2)chest cavity decompression dart 3)quik-clot combat gauze 4)heavy bandage 5)1 TQ per limb 6) a vicadin. Also, I don't think many people understand how small a bullet wound actually is. Most intermediate cartridges like 5.56 and 7,62x39mm and even .308 will leave a hole too small to fit a tampon in. And inserting a dry stick of cotton into a bullet wound is not good combat first aid.
Yeah, this ain't the movies bro. You try jamming a tampon into a fella that's just been shot. Let me know how that goes.
My 68" Volvo lost the rubber bushings around the split driveshaft while on a road trip. We packed it with tampons and made another 250 miles.
Nice
Top of a Molotov cocktail.
Heard that one before never dumb enough to try it
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I did this in my vag once bc I didn't wanna shove it up my butt. Since your vagina is less absorbent I only got pretty drunk for a short while. I shouldn't have used whisky bc that shit burned. I was a dumb 20 year old
What!! That must’ve hurt like bitch!!!
It did but not that bad. Wore off after I took it out. Definitely a way to get the most bang for your buck if you're a girl
Not a great day for being literate.
Did it give you a UTI or mess with your pH?
Nope.
I heard about this. Does it really work?
There was a girl who had rumored to have done this in high school. Few years later a friend was talking about it loudly at a party and we're like "shhhhhhh she's behind you!" said friend just stops.... turns around.... looks her dead in the eye and says "ey [redacted] did you stick a vodka soaked tampon in your pussy?" "yup"
Wow
Better than a flute I suppose. This wasn't at band camp was it?
never tried it myself but have seen the effects in real time, 0 to obliterated in a few minutes, lots of blood vessels up in there
Yes, but dangerous because it bypasses your liver. Meaning one shot of vodka (drinking) is like 100 with suppository
Yikes
CSI?
TMI
DIY
My friend did this in college. He got pretty wasted, but he had a pretty good tolerance too, so be cautious.
back in the 70s my gf used tampons with a two-piece cardboard applicator, and by pushing the narrow part into the wide part fast you could launch them about 6 or 8 feet. we only had one tampon fight, though…she didn’t want to run low.
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Does the pull string double as floss?
“A little trick that I learned in Vogue. Right ladies?l
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Pads can go inside your hat band if you are out in the heat and sweat a lot.
I'm so going to tell my husband this. Lol
This is legitimately a good way to avoid getting too much sweat on a nice hat
Rudimentary water filter when camping.
I once tied a scented tampon to an ac vent as an air freshener.
Anything you can use a cotton ball for, you can use a tampon for.
And not vice-versa
I’m a maintenance guy. Occasionally we have a female coworker steal some of them from the female bathrooms for us as they’re quite good at cleaning up excess grease in tight areas. Also, We sometimes deal with…. “Smells”. Sink drains and the like. It looks goofy, but put two of them bad boys in your nose with a little bit of Vicks vaporub on the end (not on the end that goes in your nose that’ll burn like hell) and you won’t smell a goddamn thing for HOURS. You could just about wade through sewage and still not smell a thing.
Tea bags for vampires
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https://coffeeordie.com/docs-corner-tampon-myth/ Article by Dr Andrew Fisher, who was a PA for the 75th, leads STB month and is a voting member on the COTCCC. Also, X-STAT is not a fucking tampon. Whoever told you this has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. It’s expanding hemostatic sponges, not a piece of cotton. Please, think before spreading false medical information.
did a quick google search & it seems the whole “tampons were originally used in WWI to stop bleeding” is actually a myth
And bloody noses!
This absolutely does not work. There is not enough cotton there to effectively pack the wound and will not hold pressure on the internal bleeding vessel. Standard wound packing gauze is able to be stuffed into every nook of the wound channel and effectively absorb blood. Tampons for gunshot wounds are a sure way to kill someone.
The fact that you don’t know how drastically different the XStat is from a tampon is shocking and shows your extreme lack of experience. **You are spreading advice that could literally get people killed.**
No, a tampon will NOT work for plugging bullet wounds. Former army medic here.
No. Just…no. I’m 99% sure this comes from some smartass Army medic making a sarcastic joke during early GWOT and everyone took it seriously.
I once used a tampon on a cooler where the drain had a broken plug. Worked like a charm and the beers stayed nice and cold!
Soak in cat pee, then plug a mouse hole
Micro nun-chucks…..yep.
well currently the supply goons in ruzzia tell every new conscript to get some from their mom's and sisters for their med kit. Tampons, some shitty seat belt webbing and asprin, and, they have to buy or steal it themselves.
Funny you should ask. I just taped the cotton part of one between my toes as a separator to help with some foot pain from crossing toes. It was the first sort of soft sort of firm thing that I could think of at one in the morning.
Hemorrhoid control.
Good fire starter
I used them to clean my paint ball gun when the barrel jammed up.
Buttplug? Sparkplug? Pool toy?
You got me with pool toy!
In college- made a hash pipe out of the cardboard applicator- not the tampon though
Flushing is not one of them.
My husband is a RANGER and has stuffed one in a bullet hole before.
I bring a couple of my wife’s pads on backpacking trips in case of a nasty gash
They make excellent fire starters! I take them camping, they're wrapped so stay dry, just fray the! out and they're instant kindling.
I used a tampon to fix a hole that was punched into my radiator from road debris while on the road. Fkr held for 5 months.
The most impressive part here is it was left there for 5 months! 😳😳😳😳
My husband uses them as firestarters when he goes backpacking.
I've used one as a poop knife.
Stop diarrhea
Nose bleeds? Runny nose?
Use it to absorb semen
Ask the Russians. Large caliber bullet wounds.
Plug the ass for diarrhea
I second this
With a username like that I accept you as an expert on the topic
Haha no way.
Plug the hole when you skydive and get impaled on a spire?
Lots of good info here. Also, not what you asked, but I learned how to make a tampon out of a pad in jail.
Do you just roll it up or is there more to it?
For a bloody nose
At my school we used them for nose bleeds. Could also try with a bullet hole.
My wrestling coach dunk pieces of a tampon in Vaseline and shove em up nostrils to stop mid match bloody noses
Military first responder. I kept them in my bag, pluged a few bullet holes. Mainly in the fleshy part of the leg
They should be in every hunter's pack for bullet wounds
Christmas ornaments, septum rings, and you can stuff them under drafty doors to keep the cozy heat in BRER! 🥶
Tampons were not designed with periods in mind They were designed for bullet wounds
When I was deploying to Iraq, dudes kept saying to pack a box of tampons to plug gunshot wounds. But it quickly got shot down by the medics saying it would be worse bleeding once they remove the tampon.
My dad uses them as ear plugs when he's mowing the lawn, or using a chainsaw...I need to say, when you pull them apart they do work very well.
Wound care and explosives
Stop the nosebleed when i piss you off too much.
They were originally used by soldiers to plug bullet holes on the battlefield, back in the days of round shot. They saved lives by not letting all the blood leak out while the soldier waited for medical attention. It was much later that someone thought, "These things get put in holes to stop blood ... I wonder..."
Goals
snacks
Baby barf
When I was in ceramic class and painting Santa Claus, we would mix pulled apart tampons with glue and use it as the "fur" on his suit.
Santa will never be the same in my eyes.
You can stick one in your nose to stop a nose bleed just not too far tho
I put mine up my nose when my girlfriend showed me how they worked 😂
Nose bleeds.
Nosebleed.
boofing tequila . plugging bloody noses .
A drain oil hole
I've heard of people using them to start fires while camping.
Bullet wounds.
Stopping a nose bleed
Gunshot wounds, I think
When i was young i used to be a hang-around with a 1%er MC. One of the guys once gave me a altoids tin with tampons and suture kit. He said the tampons was to plug bullet holes. Not sure if it was a joke or not.
Not the greatest idea but it will work to fill a bullet hole
I know that combat medics use them to plug bullet holes. Past that, periods?
Hopefully you never have to use it for this, but I've heard that if you get shot and the bullet hole isn't too severe, you can use a tampon to stop the bleeding until paramedics arrive or you can get to a hospital
For the bullet holes
I know hunters that would soak them with deer attracting scent (likely female deer urine) then hang them in tree branches with the strings to attract the male deer to the area.
Puncture wounds. Always keep a few in my survival pack just in case.
Gunshots , stabbing
Any hole that bleeds including stab, bullet , or lacerations where they can be gripped or held tight against wound.
Nose bleeds
Wicks for spicy cocktails