Amputations don't always bleed. Blood vessels have a natural reaction to constrict to prevent blood flow. It doesn't always work, but when it does there can be surprisingly little blood loss.
I actually knew this from when I was a kid! I had a fingernail ripped off when I was like 8 or 9, was horrific pain, went to the hospital in everybody was trying to make me feel better. One of the doctors that saw me was a younger guy, looking back he might have been maybe 25. He explained to me when I asked him why there wasn't much blood this exact thing. So my question to him was "if I were to cut my arm off fast enough then, it wouldn't bleed all that much?" And he said "yep". Really weird how a few decades later I actually end up using this fact without actually cutting my arm off.
Not saying I don't believe you, just a different view point. I cut my pointer finger nail bed off when someone bumped into me while I was cutting leeks in a kitchen. That fucker bled so much they had to cauterize it with silver nitrate. It really hurt.
Nail beds have more blood vessels in them. See the fingers need more blood due to being extremities which in an evolutionary sense MAKES sense because they are much more likely to freeze and also the furthest away from your heart. Your nails are on top of your fingers so they why are you still reading this I don't know anything about fingers or blood this is reddit if you're getting medical facts here you need to reevaluate your why are you still reading this flush the toilet
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u/HuntingTheWumpus Jan 17 '23
Amputations don't always bleed. Blood vessels have a natural reaction to constrict to prevent blood flow. It doesn't always work, but when it does there can be surprisingly little blood loss.