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2007-06-18 14:27:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
It's a blood thinner. It's often used in heart patients to keep the blood thin enough to flow through partially blocked arteries. It can also be used in those who have had blood clots. It's necessary to have a blood test every month to make sure the blood thickness is ok. People using it have to be very careful of injuries because of loss of blood.
2007-06-18 14:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by DOT 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Warfarin, which goes by the brand name Coumadin, is an anticoagulant (a substance that prevents the clotting of blood)medication. This means that it helps prevent clots from forming in the blood. Blood thinners are used to treat some types of heart disease.
Blood clots can move to other parts of your body and cause serious medical problems, such as a heart attack. Warfarin will not dissolve a blood clot; however, over time, the blood clot may dissolve on its own. Warfarin may also prevent other clots from forming or prevent clots from becoming larger. Warfarin will not dissolve a blood clot, but it may prevent other clots from forming and keep existing clots from getting larger.
I have been on Coumadin for 4 years and will be for the rest of my life. The reason is because I had my mitral valve replaced with a mechanical valve.
Click below link for more info:
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/warfarin-other-blood-thinners?page=2
2007-06-18 15:24:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coumadin is blood thinner. Coumadin reduces the formation of blood clots.
Coumadin is used to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots in veins and arteries.
2007-06-18 14:33:27 · answer #3 · answered by Hestia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I take coumadin for my heart. It is to thin the blood and flow easier. Helps to avoid blockages and clots.
It is warfin, same as in rat poison, but it is too strong for them, they are small. Don't be scared of it. The Dr. checks protime and INR tests to keep the level adjusted. This is done by just a stick in your finger.
2007-06-18 14:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by lana s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is used mostly as a blood thinner. And can be dangerous if over used. Mother, in a nursing home, was given too strong a dosage, and when they went in to get her up one morning, the mattress was soaked with blood. They took her off that immediately!!
2007-06-18 14:33:45 · answer #5 · answered by lollipop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a blood thinner to prevent blood clots from forming in the patients body.
2007-06-18 14:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by phxmilitarymom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is also called warfarin. It is a very good rat poison. But used as a medicine, it is one of the better treatments to prevent blood clots that can cause heart attacks.
2007-06-18 14:37:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Y4 is right. It was invented in the 1948 and was used as a rat poison in 1952. It was approved for medical use in 1954.
2007-06-18 15:04:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a blood thinner given to heart patients and is VERY dangerous if mis used.
2007-06-18 14:30:23 · answer #9 · answered by randy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Commonly known as a blood thinner.
2007-06-18 14:30:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jenny RS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋