[Closed] Drinking blood

I think that the low carb content probably means that you won't store enough of it as fat.

So, if I eat a lot of cakes before the accident?

No....

It's the massively low BP that would kill you, drinking it ain't going to help that!

I think it's actually fairly toxic to drink.
Mainly because we don't deal well with iron.

Although, that would be over a prolonged time I guess.

You'd probably be sick before then.

It reminds me of the time Bruce Parry was given a load of cows milk to drink - yuk, I've gone a funny now.

I keep a slice of stornoway black pudding in my first aid kit for exactly this kind of scenario

It might work if you were lying on a conveyer belt.

So:

1) eat a lot of cakes first
2) drink it quickly
3) probably be sick (start cycle again)

Would it have the right intrinsic qualities to satisfy your needs?
This, I feel, is the unicorn that needs to be run up the flagpole before we can consider ringfencing it.

I think it's actually fairly toxic to drink.

In the early stages of farming, as humans started to domesticate animals, cattle were farmed for their blood rather than milk - its taken centuries of selective breeding for cows to be viable milk suppliers (and its suggested our ancestors couldn't digest the milk readily anyway) so cattle were tapped for blood instead

Hmm, conveyor belt probably useful if it was an industrial accident in a factory with conveyor belt. Wonder if a Camelbak tube would be of any use.

Is the Unicorn bleeding?

Hmmmm.. Black Pudding....

I bet you could shoot the blood directly back into a vein. Keep doing that till your wound dries up or treated??

Now that could work - and provide a use for that camelbak hose!

And you could possibly mix in other substances to cheer you up a bit.

A customer of mine is living in London at the moment while being treated for myeloma. She first became aware something was wrong when she woke up with a nose bleed, which didn't stop. Luckily she was on a visit to London and was admitted to the only hospital in the UK where they specialise in treating that cancer so they recognised the symptoms. The nosebleed was caused by the volume of the blood expanding rapidly as the cancer cells multiplied.

In the tropics in WW2 they used to use cocunut milk for transfusions because they were short on blood. Apparently it's the right consistency to keep the blood pressure up for you to live.

Surely there was more blood available than there were coconuts ? 😕

Most people have a spare pint of the stuff, so "gives us a pint of your blood" sounds a tad more sensible than "pop out and get me a coconut please", does it not ?

Oh my goodness! What a worry you lot are! You need blood to absorb the nutrients in blood that you may eat so there's no way you could survive as described above ( am i being to boring for this thread?) Also coconut milk as a substitute wud be fabulous (possibly) for enough time to say "cherio fellas, nice working with ya!"
Don't do it!!!!! Need help? call for a nurse/doctor or someything

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS! 😉

no. on so many levels.

Is solar powered being ironic and actually suggesting we do try it?

I think I may, where's the razor blades and camel bak hose?

Had the hot blood/warm milk milkshake the Maasi make while visiting mrsmidlife's sister's nomadic family in Kenya. Tasty but weird. Much, much better than their tea though. I think in a trauma situation, if I was active enough to organise drinking blood, my efforts might be better placed in staunching it or organising some help.

this is all just too weird for me....

think that the low carb content probably means that you won't store enough of it as fat.

I accidentally drank some blood/pus combo earlier, had a mouth ulcer that I poked with my tongue and it popped. Now have a sore throat, maybe just a coincidence :\ tasted rank.