Tampons: So MANY Uses!
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:40 pm
HatTip to 'HozayBuck' over at Prepared Society for finding this:
Yes, That’s a Tampon in My Mouth: The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/06/05/survival-tampon/
Do me a favor for the next five minutes. Try to forget everything you know about tampons. I know, it’s hard. But pretend that this is the first time you have ever seen or heard of the item below, and it is a new survival product on the market: the Tactical Adventure Medical Preparedness Outdoors Necessity (T.A.M.P.O.N.).
All kidding aside, a tampon really does have a ton of uses to a survivor. One could even argue for including a couple in your survival kit. Ultimately, I’ll let you be the judge.
Before I get into the details of this post, a brief history of the tampon might surprise you.
The tampon is actually regulated in the US by the Food & Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The word “tampon” is a derivative of the French word tapon which means “a little plug or stopper.” My research indicates that tampons were used --- CONTINUED at LINK, above ---
