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Uh, just a note here. About this whole thing. Blood Clotting is an
important thing. How come slow it down? Why alter metabolism stuff
when we're still in the dark on the whole thing anyway? How about we
take O2 for deco, dive nitrox for travel mix, use good dive planners, and
be conservative in profiles?
This is NOT a flame. This is a question. The question is, WHY?
At 04:17 PM 1/3/95 -30000, Nick Simicich wrote:
>>On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Tom Wylie wrote:
>
>>
>> Asprin is taken over here by a number of deeper divers, who will swallow
>> 1/2 a tablet an hour or so before a dive..
>> It is said to Thin THe Blood and help stop the bends. The truth has not
>> be verfied to my knowledge yet I suppose everylittle helps, however it may
>> be a physiological think as I do not see what significence only 1/2 a tablet
>> will have 5 or 6 possibly but a 1/2. However I am not saying take 5 or 6 I
>> am a biophysicist not a doctor. I beleive this thread has been explored
before
>> and I suppose if platelete cohesiveness is comming into the question again
>> asprin,carbohol, frenquil, deriden, phenacetin are in my opinion in asending
>> order of desirability, ie stick to the asprin..
>>
>> If you want to be stupid try warfrin (rat poison).
>>
>> ( No please don't try warfrin)
>
>In the US, Warfarin is sold as a drug under the trade name 'coumadin'. My
>belief is that it would take several daily doses to lengthen your clotting
>time enough to matter. Interestingly, they took all of the generics off
>of the market since there was a bioavailability problem, so don't try to
>measure 5 mg of rat poison.
>
>I also believe that 1/2 Asprin will provide a significant short term
>increase in clotting time. This is in the dosage range recommended as
>theraputic for prevention of heart attacks.
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