The Drug Coumadin

How many patients need to be involved in a study before it's taken seriously?

100? 1,000? 100,000?

How about 1.23 million?

Think that's enough to finally knock down a widely used (and very dangerous) drug?

I doubt it.

After looking at data from 1.23 million patients, researchers have confirmed what I've been warning against for years—that warfarin (sold under the name Coumadin) significantly increases the risk of dying from a traumatic injury. In fact, the death rate for traumatic injuries is more than double for patients on warfarin.

The research was presented at the American College of Surgeons 2009 Clinical Congress, which showed that risk was increased in both elderly and younger patients. And that warfarin therapy brings even more risk for people under 65.

Think about that—if you're younger, you have more of a chance of surviving trauma. So warfarin can have an even bigger effect on your chances of making it through alive.

None of this is really surprising for a drug that got its start as rat poison (that's right). How does that make you feel, if you take Coumadin, to realize it is nothing more than Rat Poison? If you have any doubts, check it out here.
But gets worse. The researchers had felt they were seeing more and more patients on warfarin among their trauma patients, and they were right. In fact, warfarin use in general has been climbing since 2002.

So, more and more people are being dosed with a drug that doubles your risk of dying from a traumatic injury. And there's no end in sight. Sure, there's a lot of talk of adding this information to the "risk profile" for warfarin, but absolutely no talk of pulling it from the market.

Which is ridiculous, considering that there are many totally safe alternatives. Dr. Wright has been using one in his practice for over 30 years with great success: fish oil. Fish oil works by making platelets so slippery that they can't stick together easily to form a clot.

It may not taste all that wonderful, but it does the job(and you can mix it with rice or almond milk if you have trouble choking it down). For blood-thinning purposes, Dr. Wright recommends 2 to 3 tablespoons of cod liver oil each day along with 800-1,000 IU of vitamin E.

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Dave Kazda
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