Guys, I don't know how many of you have any real world experience with quik clott, but it's dangerous stuff. I am set to deploy to Iraq in september and just received some supplementary first aid training for the newer kits that will be issued "in-country" and they told us Quik Clot CAUTERIZES the wounds closed. Yeah, my eyes got big too, I had thought it was some sort of clotting agent that just plugged the holes. They also were very adament about telling us to keep it DOWNWIND while using it because if it is ingested into the nose or lungs, it will kill you. I can only take this info at face value, it was given by my supervision and came from either DOD, or the company that makes the stuff.