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Warfarin is considered as an anticoagulants acting by effectively blocking the vitamin K cycle, resulting in inability to produce essential blood-clotting factors --- mainly coagulation factors II (prothrombin), VII (proconvertin).
In addition to this specific metabolic disruption, massive toxic doses of anticoagulant rat poisons, such as Warfarin, cause damage to tiny blood vessels (capillaries), increasing their permeability, causing diffuse internal bleedings (haemorrhagias). These effects are gradual, developing over several days, commonly causing moderate to severe pain from bleeding into muscles and joints. In the final phase of the intoxication, the exhausted rodent collapses in hypovolemic circulatory shock or severe anemia and dies calmly.
Again, it must be a toxic dose of an anticoagulant that will take effect after several days- and can be reversed with ingested Vitamin K.
Therapeutic use of Warfarin in humans as an anticoagulant takes a few days before we see its full effect.
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If man eat rat poison he will die?
The most common rat poison is warfarin. It can kill a man if enough of it was eaten. Warfarin is strychnine, and as such, deadly.
What main ingredient is in decon rat poison?
warfarin
What organic compound was widely used as a rat poison in the 1950's?
warfarin
Does Coumadin have rat poison in it?
Coumadin (warfarin) is the active ingredient in rat poison. That being said, Coumadin is dosed, for humans, in a manner which prevents blood clotting (especially for those at risk), and does not act as a poison at the therapeutic dosage level. (However, when rats ingest the high concentrations of warfarin in rat poison, they bleed to death, internally.)
What are 2 major uses for warfarin?
1) Rat poison 2) A medical blood thinner (anticoagulant).
Is warfaran rat poison and why is it requierd if you have an embilis?
Yes, Warfarin has been used as a rat poison in the past. It is also a blood thinner and therefore used to treat blood clots, such as an embolism, and prevent their recurrence.
How do you spell Warsarin?
The chemical warfarin is a blood-thinning agent (trademark name Coumadin) also used as rat poison.
Can a person survive after eating rat poison?
Yes, one type of rat poison, sodium warfarin, also known as Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran, is routinely prescribed as a blood thinner to patients with heart disease and other illnesses.
Therapeutic medications derived from a poison?
One example of this is Coumadin (Warfarin). This anti-coagulation drug was first developed as a rat poison. It would cause the rat to excessively bleed, thus this is how it killed them. Later they determined if they can get the dosing right, it can be used for patients who have clotting disorders.
What poisonous element is used in rat poison and medicines?
Several. Arsenic was once used as a rat poison and also has use in medicine (bone marrow disorders as an example. Thallium was once used as a rat poison and was once used to treat Syphillis Barium used to be used in rat poison and is used in medicine (barium meal) for some types of scan. Mostly these days however it is a compound that applies to both rather than an element - that being Warfarin.
What element is used to kill rats?
Rat poison has a variety of elements that can kill rats. These elements include warfarin, diphacinone, bromadiolone, brodificoum and others. The kind used in home is called anticoagulant rodenticide.
What poisonous element is used in medicines and also in rat poison?
Warfarin. It is a white crystalline compound that is used to kill rats and other rodents.Warfarin is also used as a medicine for people, to make their blood thinner so that it does not coagulate so easily.Other answersBromadiolone is also found in rat poisons and is composed of bromine, a poisonous element.Ipratropium bromide is a medication used as a bronchodilator - it assists breathing for patients with lung damage or asthma-type ailments.Note that warfarin, bromadiolone, and iprtropium bromide are compounds rather than elements.A common element used in rat poison is Arsenic, although there are other components such as zinc phosphide, bromethalin, and cholecalciferon.Thallium is higly toxic, is used in rat poison (though it's currently banned in the US) and a radioactive form (thallium-201) is used in cardiac testing.
