Handy Tricks Six

Step 13 Stop Bleeding with Cellulose

Chloe Byruck cut herself while sewing.
She dabbed the wound with a paper towel and the bleeding stopped.
Why? The cellulose fibers are covered with microscopic spiky scales. That's how the fibers grip each other to make paper. Blood contains platelets full of clotting factors. The platelets break on the cellulose spikes and clot the hell up. Bleeding stops.

Comments

[NormMonkey]

Is that why T.P. works so well on shaving cuts?

[altomic]

i saw a medical documentary years ago about burn victims in India. Where their skin was burnt it was covered by potato skin. the cellular similarity between potato skin and human skin was apparently close enough. I don't know exactly how it worked, i'm just saying what I saw.