On 2/28/2013 8:24 AM, RonB wrote:
Timely advice for me. I just had a couple of teeth extracted. The dentist sent me home with a supply of gauze pads to soak up blood and stop the bleeding. He told me that if the bleeding seemed to persist, replace the pad with a dampened tea bag inside of gauze, but he didn't think I would bleed very long.

Long story, short I did continue to bleed into the evening so I tried the tea bag trick and the bleeding stopped within 20-30 minutes (I skipped the gauze because even as big as my mouth is, everything didn't fit). Doesn't taste bad if you like hot tea.

Heard about that, but never tried it. We are not tea drinkers, but have
tea bags for visitors on hand all the time. Based on your above, a few
bags of same are heading out to the shop first aid kit when I finish
typing this. Taking an anti-coagulant and aspirin and have been warned
about the side effects. As well as getting older not being for sissies,
and it also takes more due diligence.

... thanks for jogging my memory!

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