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Blood Clot Dangers After Surgery Worse Than Thought
Vitamin A to the rescue!
A new study published in the British Medical Journal has shocked the allopathic community. They are aware of the risk of thrombosis (clotting) post-surgery. It can be dangerous and sometimes proves fatal.
But the scale of the problem is far worse than was thought. It has always been supposed that clotting was less of a risk after so-called keyhole surgery. I thought that too; now it turns out it’s just a phoney supposition, as most “science” is.
The new study, using data on nearly 1 million women in the United Kingdom who were tracked for an average of 6.2 years after surgery, outlines the risk in precise detail; that's a BIG study. It emerged that 1 of every 140 women who had surgery that required a hospital stay was re-admitted for venous thromboembolism within 12 weeks of the operation. The rate was highest for hip or knee replacement surgery at 1 in 45, and was 1 in 85 after cancer surgery.
And the risk of such a blood clot remained high for at least 12 weeks after surgery, the study found.
By contrast, the incidence of venous thrombosis during a 12-week period for women who did not have surgery was one in 6,200.
So they have decided that patients need more “management” post-operatively, to “reduce the risk”. That means giving warfarin (Coumadin), one of the most dangerous drugs in all of medicine (kills more than chemo and is the commonest cause of emergency life-threatening admission to ER)!
If you ever face surgery—and you might, no matter how holistically oriented—don’t let them give you this dangerous drug.
Why don’t they use vitamin K shots, which reduce clotting? Omega-3s dramatically reduce clotting, so take lashings of those.
But also nobody seems to have heard of the idea that vitamin A sufficiency is the answer: it eliminates all pathological clotting tendencies, even though vitamin A is involved in clotting pathways and is used in bleeding disorders, such as acute promyelocytic leukemia!
I clearly remember a study published in the 1980s that showed vitamin A protects against post-operative clotting. It was a vigorously done study, with good results. When I say I remember it clearly, I can’t remember it at all (not to locate it again)! But there are many papers on this topic. Retinoids (derivatives of vitamin A) are known to prevent hypercoagulable states—those where clotting is very likely. For instance this one: Haematologica. 2003 Aug;88(8):895-905 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12935977)
A growing number of in vitro studies have reported desirable effects of retinoids on cell migration, proliferation, apoptosis, matrix remodeling, fibrinolysis, coagulation, and inflammation, all of which impinge on vascular disease.
Vitamin A is an antioxidant that generally helps to protect your cells against damage. It helps cells reproduce normally and is also needed for red blood cell production. Vitamin A deficiency has been found in women with heavy bleeding. One study showed that 92 percent of women prescribed supplemental vitamin A found that their heavy bleeding was either cured or alleviated.
You also need vitamin A to build immunity, restore cell function, prevent aging and to fight cancer. Did you know that vitamin A is now used clinically to treat cancer cases, who have a far higher than normal tendency to clot? Yet the dinosaurs go on saying anti-oxidants kill and retinoids and vitamin E are bad!
[SOURCE: Dec 4, 2009, BMJ online]
Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby
Letter From Serendipity
Total Health Newsletter
December 13, 2009
http://www.letterfromserendipity.com/serendipity30.htm
Vitamin A to the rescue!
A new study published in the British Medical Journal has shocked the allopathic community. They are aware of the risk of thrombosis (clotting) post-surgery. It can be dangerous and sometimes proves fatal.
But the scale of the problem is far worse than was thought. It has always been supposed that clotting was less of a risk after so-called keyhole surgery. I thought that too; now it turns out it’s just a phoney supposition, as most “science” is.
The new study, using data on nearly 1 million women in the United Kingdom who were tracked for an average of 6.2 years after surgery, outlines the risk in precise detail; that's a BIG study. It emerged that 1 of every 140 women who had surgery that required a hospital stay was re-admitted for venous thromboembolism within 12 weeks of the operation. The rate was highest for hip or knee replacement surgery at 1 in 45, and was 1 in 85 after cancer surgery.
And the risk of such a blood clot remained high for at least 12 weeks after surgery, the study found.
By contrast, the incidence of venous thrombosis during a 12-week period for women who did not have surgery was one in 6,200.
So they have decided that patients need more “management” post-operatively, to “reduce the risk”. That means giving warfarin (Coumadin), one of the most dangerous drugs in all of medicine (kills more than chemo and is the commonest cause of emergency life-threatening admission to ER)!
If you ever face surgery—and you might, no matter how holistically oriented—don’t let them give you this dangerous drug.
Why don’t they use vitamin K shots, which reduce clotting? Omega-3s dramatically reduce clotting, so take lashings of those.
But also nobody seems to have heard of the idea that vitamin A sufficiency is the answer: it eliminates all pathological clotting tendencies, even though vitamin A is involved in clotting pathways and is used in bleeding disorders, such as acute promyelocytic leukemia!
I clearly remember a study published in the 1980s that showed vitamin A protects against post-operative clotting. It was a vigorously done study, with good results. When I say I remember it clearly, I can’t remember it at all (not to locate it again)! But there are many papers on this topic. Retinoids (derivatives of vitamin A) are known to prevent hypercoagulable states—those where clotting is very likely. For instance this one: Haematologica. 2003 Aug;88(8):895-905 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12935977)
A growing number of in vitro studies have reported desirable effects of retinoids on cell migration, proliferation, apoptosis, matrix remodeling, fibrinolysis, coagulation, and inflammation, all of which impinge on vascular disease.
Vitamin A is an antioxidant that generally helps to protect your cells against damage. It helps cells reproduce normally and is also needed for red blood cell production. Vitamin A deficiency has been found in women with heavy bleeding. One study showed that 92 percent of women prescribed supplemental vitamin A found that their heavy bleeding was either cured or alleviated.
You also need vitamin A to build immunity, restore cell function, prevent aging and to fight cancer. Did you know that vitamin A is now used clinically to treat cancer cases, who have a far higher than normal tendency to clot? Yet the dinosaurs go on saying anti-oxidants kill and retinoids and vitamin E are bad!
[SOURCE: Dec 4, 2009, BMJ online]
Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby
Letter From Serendipity
Total Health Newsletter
December 13, 2009
http://www.letterfromserendipity.com/serendipity30.htm