Why shouldn’t you pull out knife from someone who got stabbed?

Question

I heard people say that if you or someone got stabbed, you shouldn’t take out the knife. but why? isn’t it better to take it out?

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Answer 1

edit:If you want to see how something similar works, there’s an experiment you can try at home with adult supervision. (pre-edit:You can test this yourself real easily!)

Take a plastic bottle filled with water, and then stab it with a knife or pin. Watch how much water leaks out. And then take the knife out of the bottle. Now that the water doesn’t need to go *around* the knife, it can go straight out of the bottle and this happens faster than before!

Also, in any wound situation, why do you need to remove foreign objects? The reason: so that when the wound heals and is closed there isn’t any infection. The timeline for infections: days to months after the wound. The timeline for bleeding out: seconds to minutes (or hours with some proper first aid).