Let’s say you are dying of starvation. You pull one of your teeth out, causing blood to slowly seep into your mouth, which you swallow. The calories from the blood getting digested will delay the time you die of starvation, right? Or will losing blood while starving kill you faster?
Here’s one documented case of an 8 year old girl from last year, and it took about 6 days of bleeding before she was pronounced brain dead…
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/child-faces-fatal-health-issues-after-simple-procedure/51-d9385f6b-f3f8-4c22-b0d4-72c2130f1d62
I can’t quite find the much older story of the 3 year old toddler though, but it was essentially the same thing, and took about a week of health decline before he passed. Nobody knew the toddler was swallowing the blood until the autopsy ☹️