Thread: How to avoid fainting?

Originally Posted by jacobo

did you mean would have been?

seeing blood has no physical repercussions. -- it can have a psychological effect however. the best medicine is exposure. the more you see, the less you care. just like hihello's grammar. zing.

-jacob

Originally Posted by jacobo

i'm going to expand on that answer here...

fainting is generally caused by a drop in blood pressure, low/high blood sugar or low spo2 levels.

seeing blood cannot cause any of these. grow a pair.

Wow, that's a really thorough analysis except for one minor gap: for a minority of the population, seeing blood DOES lead to a drop in blood pressure that can result in fainting. Hmm, now let's really stretch here and consider how a drop in blood pressure might be of evolutionary advantage if one is bleeding... Or, for that matter, how involuntarily playing dead might be of use in the face of a bloodletting...

Let me know if you need a diagram.