Heparin Warning Article !

[Guest guest]

> Yeah, two reasons to not use heparin. One might be interested in

my personal

> experience when I was taking the NOW brand Boswellin which I found

I could

> not get a cut to stop bleeding as it was apparently thinning my

blood too much

> when taken in high dose (close to 1000mg boswellic acid daily). >

Hi ,

Are you sure boswellia was thinning your blood, nowhere have I read

that it does that when reading about Boswellia .

Al

[Guest guest]

Reposted for those inquiring about Heparin use for CFS.

From: http://www.mercola.com/2003/aug/9/detoxification_biotoxins.htm

Spreading Infection

It has been suggested that the use of heparin will address hypercoagulation.

Recent data from JAMA (son 2001) indicates that the use of low dose

heparin may transform a 'benign fungal infection into a toxic shock-like

reaction'. This research was presented at the 39th annual meeting of the

Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2001 by Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D. of

Yale University School of Medicine (Hostetter 2001 and San-Blas et al 2000).

Hostetter and colleagues found that Candida albicans can attach to host cells

and form invasive hyphae. Low dose heparin utilized in procedures for

hospitalized patients through the practice of heparin in intravascular catheters

may transform C. albicans into a life-threatening pathogen. Hostetter was able

to identify a gene, INT1, encoding a C. albicans surface protein, Intlp, which

was linked with adhesion, the ability to grow filaments and ultimately virulence

of C. albicans of a systemic nature.

The use of heparin raises the cytokines TNF alpha and IL-6 (son 2001) in

addition to Phospholipase A2 (Mudher et al 1999; Kern et al 2000; Farooqui 1999;

Verity et al 1994). Biotoxins which form neurotoxins, may create a state of

hypercoagulation from the rise in TNF alpha. Consequently, the use of heparin

may exacerbate the hypercoagulation and the neurotoxic condition. The source of

the problem- biotoxins, which have formed neurotoxins creating a state of

hypercoagulation, must be addressed from the context of the underlying

neurotoxic condition and healing the cell membrane.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your concern, however Ive read this article, and Ive also

read the corresponding rebuttals to it, and I feel that the risk of

using heparin is reasonable. I believe that this article refers to

using heparin in a hosptial setting in a intravascular catheter.

Considering the weight of evidence in favour of heparin therapy, vs

this single article, with no other support, scientific or anecdotal,

Low dose heparin still seems like a treatment I am willinging to

explore.

.

[Guest guest]

Please read Kane on heparin.

There are better approaches. Heparin can be an unwise strategy.

> Thanks for your concern, however Ive read this article, and Ive

also

> read the corresponding rebuttals to it, and I feel that the risk of

> using heparin is reasonable. I believe that this article refers to

> using heparin in a hosptial setting in a intravascular catheter.

> Considering the weight of evidence in favour of heparin therapy, vs

> this single article, with no other support, scientific or

anecdotal,

> Low dose heparin still seems like a treatment I am willinging to

> explore.

>

> .