How to Use blood thinner in a Sentence
blood thinner
noun-
Mixing spinach or kale with blood thinners, for example, may not be the best idea.
— Katie Camero, SELF, 13 Sep. 2024 -
Doctors put him on blood thinners and warned him not to take any chances.
— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
With too much blood thinner, patients can bleed to death.
— Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021 -
He was put on an IV drip of blood thinners and told to make calls to his family and friends.
— Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023 -
Pradaxa is the first blood thinner for children that can be taken by mouth.
— Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021 -
This is less for pain and more for heart attacks and strokes, which demand a fast blood thinner.
— Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2014 -
At first, the nurse thought the pain medicine was causing confusion in Williams, who pushed for a CT scan and a blood thinner.
— Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018 -
She was treated with platelet infusions and a blood thinner, but had a bleed in her brain the next day.
— Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021 -
The teen was given blood thinners to quickly restore blood flow to his brain.
— Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023 -
Major blood thinners and diabetes drugs made the cut for the initial round.
— Mariana Socal, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023 -
People who take blood thinners may want to avoid fish oil, which can thin the blood and increase the risk of bleeding, Basit said.
— Sherri Gordon, Health, 10 July 2024 -
Twice-daily injections of a blood thinner took care of Colton's blood clot.
— Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022 -
Fenugreek may thin the blood, increasing the action of blood thinners.
— Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 24 Mar. 2024 -
But docs found a clotting disorder and put him on blood thinners.
— Marty Munson, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 -
Bristol-Meyers, maker of the blood thinner Plavix, is based in New York.
— Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 17 Oct. 2017 -
Aspirin is best known as a pain reliever but is also a blood thinner that can reduce the chance of blood clots.
— Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021 -
So in December 2011, her doctor put her on a blood thinner.
— John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021 -
Price explains that the product is baited food laced with warfarin, a blood thinner used for humans that is lethal to hogs.
— Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017 -
Drugs like the blood thinner Xarelto and eye treatment Eylea are reliable cash cows.
— Charley Grant, WSJ, 22 June 2019 -
As a result he was told by his doctor to stop taking his blood thinner, warfarin, and switch to a less potent medicine.
— Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022 -
The blood thinner heparin is derived from pig intestines.
— Time, 20 Oct. 2021 -
At least two of these patients were taking some form of blood thinner, and blood thinners can cause bleeding even when there is no lecanemab.
— Gary Stix, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2023 -
Talk with your healthcare provider about natural blood thinners and which products are safe for you.
— Steffini Stalos, Health, 25 July 2024 -
According to Wood, the treatment for AFib is blood thinners to prevent clots from forming.
— Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 5 July 2023 -
Aspirin is a blood thinner and can help head off heart attacks and strokes by preventing clots from forming in the blood vessels that lead to the heart or brain.
— Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021 -
Doctors may also treat ischemic stroke with other medicines, such as blood thinners, as well as surgery to remove the clot.
— Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024 -
From warfarin, Link derives a drug called Coumadin, which is used as a blood thinner to treat heart patients and prevent blood clotting.
— Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018 -
Doctors also should be cautious when prescribing the drug to patients on blood thinners, the FDA said.
— Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023 -
His doctor began treating the man with a blood thinner, 15 mg of rivaroxaban two times a day.
— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022 -
But today, most patients are given blood thinners for life after the very first major clot.
— Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
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