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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rojawe on March 23, 2012, 03:21:37 PM

Title: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: rojawe on March 23, 2012, 03:21:37 PM: Cheap Drug Is Found to Save Bleeding Victims

For months, a simple generic drug has been saving lives on America’s battlefields by slowing the bleeding of even gravely wounded soldiers.

Even better, it is cheap. But its very inexpensiveness has slowed its entry into American emergency rooms, where it might save the lives of bleeding victims of car crashes, shootings and stabbings — up to 4,000 Americans a year, according to a recent study.

Because there is so little profit in it, the companies that make it do not champion it.

However, the drug is edging slowly closer to adoption as hospitals in New York and other major cities debate adding it to their pharmacies. The drug,((((((((( tranexamic acid,)))))))))) has long been sold over the counter in Britain and Japan for heavy menstrual flow. After a groundbreaking 2010 trial on 20,000 hemorrhaging trauma patients in 40 countries showed that it saved lives, the British and American Armies adopted it. The World Health Organization added it to its essential drugs list last year, and British ambulances now carry it.

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Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: Solus on March 23, 2012, 03:32:14 PM: Buried to deep in there for me to find it...why not ruin the surprise and tell us what it is?
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: Hazcat on March 23, 2012, 03:33:49 PM: Quote from: Solus on March 23, 2012, 03:32:14 PM
Buried to deep in there for me to find it...why not ruin the surprise and tell us what it is?

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The drug, tranexamic acid
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: Solus on March 23, 2012, 04:54:59 PM: Marketed as Lysteda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranexamic_acid
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: rojawe on March 24, 2012, 03:13:30 PM: Went to Wal Greens today and was told you have to have a prescription for it so that sucks :'( :-X
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: Frosty on March 25, 2012, 01:25:04 PM: As with all medications there are indications and counterindications when using them. Tranexamic acid is no different. If you're overweight, smoke and all ready have clots (the clots you have won't disappear anytime soon) this drug isn't for you. So it sounds great and works in certain situations and that's why you need a Dr's script.
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: PABLO DEL NORTE on March 26, 2012, 09:02:19 AM: ??? ??? EXCUSE MY LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT HOW THE HECK DO YA GET IT IF YA AIN'T GOT A PRESC,?
AS IT IS YA CAN'T EVEN BUY 1/2 THE OTC DRUGS IN MEXICO LIKE BEFORE W/O A PRESC.!! ???
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: Solus on March 26, 2012, 10:06:09 AM: Back when this thread first started I Googled "Homemade tranexamic acid" and got a page full of links to sites offering kits and non-prescription ways to obtain it.

None of them looked like a link I wanted to click on. You might feel more secure.....
Title: Re: Might want to get some and keep on hand or in your bugout bag
Post by: JoeG on March 26, 2012, 08:47:14 PM: Folks,

Not a DR. but have done EMT type stuff for years. I would be reluctant to give someone a systemic (oral) drug without understanding it better. If you have a gunshot or other heavy bleeder, I would apply one of the newer trauma dressings with Zeolites like Quik clot brand. Essentially you pour the powder into the wound and it sucks up all the water and aids the platelets in creating a clot. This is a local effect and just helps your body's normal responses. The part I read about using this T acid as a rinse might be good. Remember first do no harm...

Joe