Scientists uncover how soil closes deadly wounds

[dufus]

But don'tr try this at home.

 

 

A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia has shown for the first time that soil silicates promote blood clotting, rapidly closing potentially deadly wounds.

 

“Soil is not simply our matrix for growing food and for building materials. Here we discovered that soil can actually help control bleeding after injury by triggering clotting,” Dr. Christian Kastrup, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UBC and the study’s senior author, said in a statement.

 

When soil interacts with blood, it triggers the activation of a protein known as coagulation Factor XII. The protein enables a chain reaction that eventually seals the wound and limits potentially fatal blood loss.

 

Death from blood loss can occur in as little as five minutes following trauma. A study performed by researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland estimated that about 500 people in the United States die every year from external hemorrhage.

 

“Excessive bleeding is responsible for up to 40 percent of mortality in trauma patients. In extreme cases and in remote areas without access to healthcare and wound sealing

products, like sponges and sealants, sterilized soil could potentially be used to stem deadly bleeding following injuries,” says Dr. Kastrup.

 

Don’t try this at home

 

This doesn’t mean that you can just throw a handful of dirt on a bleeding wound. Unsterilized soil presents a great risk of infection, which could make matters a lot worse. Tetanus and soil fungus infections are well known to happen when a wound is filled with dirt. It’s one of the reasons a doctor will first clean a wound before applying medicine and a bandage.

 

However, the findings could have important implications for how wounds are treated in a hospital setting or even on the battlefield. Doctors could use sterilized dirt to manage bleeding and even learn new things about how infections occur after trauma.

 

Particularly, sterilized dirt could prove very effective in remote environments with limited resources and medical supplies. Poor and remote regions of the globe come to mind, but the researchers believe that sterilized dirt could prove indispensable in managing wounds occurring on other worlds too, such as injuries sustained by astronauts on the moon or Mars.

 

“This finding demonstrates how terrestrial mammals, ranging from mice to humans, evolved to naturally use silicates as a specific signal to Factor XII to trigger blood clotting,” says Lih Jiin Juang, the study’s first author and UBC PhD student in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology. “These results will have a profound impact on the way we view our relationship with our environment.”

 

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[flash48]

This article is interesting but,  somehow the term 'clean dirt' is giving my brain a problem

[Ha91]

Haha  Yeah same here 🤣

[Jogs]

On 5/1/2020 at 1:58 AM, flash48 said:

This article is interesting but,  somehow the term 'clean dirt' is giving my brain a problem

This proves that you are not a scientist, if your brain absorbs this without any problem then only you can be scientist. 😁

 

In the past people used to put mud on wounds, this cured the wounds but didn't cause any germ attack because they had better immunity.

Now a days we are living more and more in an artificial environment and this is the cause of our diminishing immunity. If things go on like this then there will be a day when we won't me able to get out of our house without wearing lots of gear, some thing like space suits.

 

 

[dMog]

22 minutes ago, Jogs said:

 

YES In the past they put dirt on wounds it does not mean to say it actually worked with a high degree of success ... and sometimes they used pig shit too.. they bled people too and thought the use of soap and water for so called doctors was the devils work. so yes they did this stuff in the past, but the cure rate was pretty shitty to coin a pun. Also at that time the death rate for women going to hospital to give birth was near 100 percent, this was because doctors thought nothing of cutting open cadavers to teach new doctors anatomy and then going to the child birth room with not so  much as wiping the slime off their hands.