Let’s say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
I’ve read a story of a 3 year old that had to have his tonsils removed. The poor child didn’t understand that it’s not good to swallow so much blood, didn’t know enough to tell his parents what was up, and he unfortunately passed away, with a belly full of blood ☹️
This seems like an urban legend
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Here’s one documented case of an 8 year old girl from last year, and it took about 6 days of bleeding before she was pronounced brain dead…
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/child-faces-fatal-health-issues-after-simple-procedure/51-d9385f6b-f3f8-4c22-b0d4-72c2130f1d62
I can’t quite find the much older story of the 3 year old toddler though, but it was essentially the same thing, and took about a week of health decline before he passed. Nobody knew the toddler was swallowing the blood until the autopsy ☹️
It sounds like the swallowing wasn’t the problem, the bleeding was. The swallowing just masked the true symptom, the bleeding, from being observed by others.
Exactly