Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 074
What do you get when you combine salted pork, a full moon, William the Conqueror, Stendhal and a swollen labia majora?
The 74th edition of the FFFF of course!
What underlying condition might make you want to treat a patient’s nose bleed by inserting nasal tampons made of salted pork?
From Humphreys et al (2011)
- Cycling
- She most likely suffers from a condition known as ‘bicyclist’s vulva‘. That’s right, as if cyclist’s nipples, cycling-related peripheral neuropathies and saddle sores weren’t bad enough there is a condition known as ‘bicyclist’s vulva’.
- Bayaens and colleagues described 6 cases in a 2002 paper in the BMJ – the patients cycled an average of 462.5 km per week). They all had unilateral lymphoedema thought to be due to compression of the inguinal lymphatics, with identifiable abnormalities on lymphoscintigraphy.
Baeyens L, Vermeersch E, Bourgeois P. Bicyclist’s vulva: observational study. BMJ. 2002 Jul 20;325(7356):138-9. PMID: 12130610; PMCID: PMC117232.
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