Tampons: So MANY Uses!

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Tampons: So MANY Uses!

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Image HatTip to 'HozayBuck' over at Prepared Society for finding this:

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Yes, That’s a Tampon in My Mouth: The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/06/05/survival-tampon/

Do me a favor for the next five minutes. Try to forget everything you know about tampons. I know, it’s hard. But pretend that this is the first time you have ever seen or heard of the item below, and it is a new survival product on the market: the Tactical Adventure Medical Preparedness Outdoors Necessity (T.A.M.P.O.N.).

All kidding aside, a tampon really does have a ton of uses to a survivor. One could even argue for including a couple in your survival kit. Ultimately, I’ll let you be the judge.

Before I get into the details of this post, a brief history of the tampon might surprise you.

The tampon is actually regulated in the US by the Food & Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The word “tampon” is a derivative of the French word tapon which means “a little plug or stopper.” My research indicates that tampons were used --- CONTINUED at LINK, above ---
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Tampons as Survival Item?
https://www.doomandbloom.net/guest-post-tampons-as-survival-item/?fbclid=IwAR2Z0fG53DGc2r_Lrt4vZvmANoQHP4NouACGDHRJsdPX4JJ9mLj9b5U9kS8

So I’m still seeing posts and comments about tampons as wound dressings. I’m going to try my damnedest to nail it home why this is a incorrect assumption. First off let me say I’m an Army Combat Medic of 8years, now a Registered Nurse who’s been working in a Level one Trauma Center for going on 10years, I got a pretty good idea about what I’m talking about. ---CONTINUED---
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