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 Would you like shrimp with your wound?
Would you like shrimp with your wound?
New bandages (edible too!), now in use by the military, and soon to be in stores, uses a derivative of chitin found in shellfish exoskeletons to stop bleeding quickly. Does not trigger allergies in people allergic to shellfish. picked by TheBlueFrog 2 years ago
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headlineWould you like shrimp with your wound?
descriptionNew bandages (edible too!), now in use by the military, and soon to be in stores, uses a derivative of chitin found in shellfish exoskeletons to stop bleeding quickly. Does not trigger allergies in people allergic to shellfish.
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