Safe & Sound Styptic Pencil. Stops bleeding from shaving and other minor cuts. 5g.

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One listener to our radio show related that his German shepherd had been badly wounded by another dog in a remote part of Brazil. Unlike other hemostat technologies its action does not require the normal hemostatic pathway and therefore continues to function even when anticoagulants like heparin are present. If you have any queries at all about Styptic Pencils what they are and how to use them, then don't hesitate, get in touch.

In 2006, Long Island University awarded him an honorary doctorate as “one of the country's leading drug experts for the consumer. Chitosan is used in some emergency hemostats which are designed to stop traumatic life-threatening bleeding.We're empowering you to make wise decisions about your own health, by providing you with essential health information about both medical and alternative treatment options. These agents permit rapid hemostasis, better visualization of the surgical area, shorter operative times, decreased requirement for transfusions, decreased wound healing time and overall improvement in patient recovery time. Topical hemostatic agents have been gaining popularity for use in emergency bleeding control, especially in military medicine. A styptic pencil is a medicated stick generally made of powdered crystal from an alum block and a wax binder which is pressed into a handy lipstick size and shape.

The high ionic strength promotes flocculation of the blood, and the astringent chemical causes local vasoconstriction. It attracts platelets and allows for the formation of a blood clot when it comes into contact with blood.Before safety razors were invented, a styptic pencil was a standard part of a shaving kit and was used to seal shaving cuts. Styptic pencils are used to quickly seal small cuts and nicks, especially those caused during wet shaving. Kaolin (and the zeolite in it) activate the coagulation cascade, and have been used as the active component of hemostatic dressings (for example, in QuikClot).