A five - year - old altered male dies of probable
warfarin poisoning.
If a necropsy is not performed, the way in which it died may be confused with
warfarin poisoning, a stroke, or cardiomyopathy.
Standard treatment for
warfarin poisoning will not help a dog with ITP and may make it worse.
Not exact matches
There are certain rats and mice that have become resistant to the main chemical of other
poisons,
warfarin.
The history of
Warfarin, one of the earliest anticoagulant drugs, is littered with the bodies of sick cows and
poisoned rats.
Resistance to the
poison warfarin has been known since the 1960s, but there was always thought to be some price to pay.
This meant that while the resistant rats have the advantage in the survival stakes when
warfarin is being used, when there is no
poison around they lose out because social dominance — and success in feeding and breeding — depends largely on size and weight.
Resistance to
warfarin is related to resistance to newer
poisons, so its spread could rule out a whole battery of weapons in the anti-rat arsenal.
Kohn previously detailed a mutation in common European house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) that gave them resistance to
warfarin, a rodent
poison also used as a blood thinner in humans.
In fact dark green leafies are so packed with vitamin K that if you're on the drug coumadin (
warfarin), a drug that works by
poisoning vitamin K metabolism, you have to closely work with your physician to titrate the dose to your greens intake so as to not undermine the drug's effectiveness!
Deficiency: Common causes: Ingestion of vitamin K antagonist rat
poisons or human blood thinners, such as
warfarin (Coumadin ®).
Brodifacoum,
warfarin, and other anticoagulant rat
poisons cause an inability to clot the blood and often lead to internal bleeding.
As a respiratory therapist, I know about
warfarin, (rat
poison), a powerful anticoagulant, and there's nothing good about it.
This can occur with or without the presence of blood since some toxins such as the rat
poison Warfarin produce internal bleeding.
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) or thrombocytopenia, presents signs similar to
warfarin (rat)
poisoning.