Recommendations for blood clotting agents

Puff TMD

Puff TMD

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As I'm sure like many others on this forum, I take blood thinners.
Are there any product you have had first hand experience with that help to hasten blood clotting when you get a minor cut or scrape?
 

Interesting topic.

When I went on Apixaban (Eliquis) I was concerned enough in the beginning to get one of those metal bracelets stamped with that on it. Since then I spoken to several doctors and they say caution is good but my dosage is low enough not to get crazy. Just be careful about bruising or any risks of major cuts.

So I don't have any answers, but this is a question of interest to me.
 
I buy a product called "Wound Seal" off of amazon, it is a powder that u sprinkle on the cut and very quickly forms a clot
and stops the bleeding....this is for those smallish but continuous bleeding scratch/cut whatever...very good, been using it for about 5 yrs now.....
 
My DIL went nuts when I was washing off a severe cut weeks ago from a frantic, panicked cat. She kept saying, don't put too much water, it won't clot! Which I know but felt I must do initial washing. It was on a vein, so I had a light slow bleed for about a week, checked out by 2 doctors. Put bandaid on immediately, and @Lilac, I did not know of the bleeding control bandage, I must get that, thank you!
 
Pepper said:
My DIL went nuts when I was washing off a severe cut weeks ago from a frantic, panicked cat. She kept saying, don't put too much water, it won't clot! Which I know but felt I must do initial washing. It was on a vein, so I had a light slow bleed for about a week, checked out by 2 doctors. Put bandaid on immediately, and @Lilac, I did not know of the bleeding control bandage, I must get that, thank you!
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Most of my wounds have been from our cat. He's not mean but it happens.
 
Found out that the primary ingredient in some blood clotting products is aluminum sulfate, which in the kitchen is known as Alum, often used in making pickles and also found in some brands of baking powder.

I have started using baking powder on small wounds and it seems to work.
 
I've seen Alum Powder in the spice aisle at the grocery. I think I'll get some & keep it around. It will come in hand in the kitchen for me.
 
Ok, I have done some first hand product research and have this to report.

I'm breaking it down into two categories....Old School and New School...
OS items are things such as Alum, Baking Powder, Eye of Newt, Styptic Pencils.

This report is just for the OS items.....I will new the NS items later.

My assistant in this experiment was one of our cats, Leo, a large orange tabby that is generally pretty friendly but can become feisty in at times. Leo agreed to inflict upon the back of my hand the necessary test samples areas for the OS testing.
I did this by teasing him with one hand in front of him while the other hand would tap him gently on his hind quarters. No hind quarters were harmed in this process.
After a bit I had a couple of freely flowing test sites.

I first poured Alum on the wounds. The Alum quickly wicked away the blood from the scratch but did not seem to help much with the clotting.

After a bit I washed out the wound and made sure it was still freely flowing.

I then put Baking Powder on the wound. The Alum was the texture of course table salt but the BP was a very fine powder.
It seemed to help much better but did not quite staunch the flow.

Round three I washed the BP off and got the flow established again.
This time I used a styptic pencil, first rinsing it in cold water.

I rubbed the pencil briskly on the wound and it seemed to staunch the flow pretty well. Daubing the wound with tissue paper and hitting it a second time with the SP seemed to do the trick.

I would have to give my recommendation to the SP for round one.

Later I will do a review of a spray type clotting product.

If you care to make contributions to this on going research project, I really enjoy craft beer.

Leo is not so keen on beer, but he really enjoys fresh cicadas. Just not sure how you would ship those noisy beasts.
 
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