What is anticoagulants?

Patients and people with diseasescardiovascular system may be interested in what anticoagulants are, since in certain clinical cases such drugs are prescribed to them by doctors. Consider what the term anticoagulants means.

Anticoagulants - what is it?

"Anticoagulants" is a complex word thatconsists of two parts, and they explain its meaning. The first part - "anti" - means the denial of an action, and the second - "coagulant" - the one that stimulates coagulation, that is - the coagulation of blood.

According to this, anticoagulants are substances ordrugs that interfere with the process of blood clotting at a particular stage of the process. The word can be used, for example, in the sentence: "The doctor assigned his patient anticoagulants."

What are anticoagulants used for?

Anti-coagulant drugs are prescribed for patients witha high prothrombin factor, that is, with "thick" blood. These funds dilute the blood, not giving platelets (shaped blood cells) to form aggregations (thromboses), thereby preventing blockage of blood vessels, strokes.

In medicine, anticoagulants are used for direct andindirect function, whose function is basically the same, but they affect different stages of the blood coagulation process. Anticoagulants are contraindicated to people with ulcerative processes in the intestines, a tendency to bleeding, kidney and liver diseases, hemophilia, etc.

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