Interesting find

[TearItDown]

I guess this would be sort of an interesting find, so I thought it would be useful to put this down somewhere. I was recently attacked by a dog and my hand is recovering from a bite wound. I read somewhere that smoking (not specified marijuana or tobacco) would cause vasoconstriction near the bite area. I found this to be the case with marijuana smoke but not tobacco smoke. Smoking marijuana would cause my finger to inflame and vasoconstrict. Swelling goes down after about 2:45-3:00 hours after smoking.

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

This is quite interesting, I've never heard about this before. Was the wound making physical contact with the smoke or just near it?

 

[MrGrunge]

This is quite interesting, I've never heard about this before. Was the wound making physical contact with the smoke or just near it?

lol, I don't think he was blowing smoke into his wound, I think he was just smoking.

 

[TearItDown]

lol, I don't think he was blowing smoke into his wound, I think he was just smoking.

8) lol

But yeah, I found it odd that marijuana smoke negatively affects the wound but tobacco smoke does not.

 

[dcraver877]

well cannabis has a tendency to relax (which would ENLARGE blood vessels) and tobacco has a tendency to constrict (constricts blood vessels). Maybe it looked more swollen after the pot because it allowed more blood flow to the wound site. Tobacco smoke would make the swelling go down theoretically, due to vasoconstriction, but I doubt that has any beneficial effect on healing.

 

[TearItDown]

well cannabis has a tendency to relax (which would ENLARGE blood vessels) and tobacco has a tendency to constrict (constricts blood vessels). Maybe it looked more swollen after the pot because it allowed more blood flow to the wound site. Tobacco smoke would make the swelling go down theoretically, due to vasoconstriction, but I doubt that has any beneficial effect on healing.

Now that you mention it, I did think tobacco caused the swelling to go down. I didn't mention it because I thought too many people would call me a liar :/ I do think this sort of information should be included in the directory. Pretty sure it's rare to encounter first hand data such as this (considering the only thing I found on smoking and bite wounds was one link with a small paragraph from a study done in 1992 I believe).