how does tranexamic acid (TXA) reduce heavy bleeding?
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When we get a little cut, our body sends little “plugs” to form and block the hole in the blood vessel.
But sometimes, we get big cuts that are too big to plug and sometimes we even bleed from inside our body.
TXA is like super-plug that helps our body’s plugs work better. It makes the plugs blocking job more effective, so the bleeding stops faster. Kind of like adding glue and the bleeding stops faster. That’s why TXA is really helpful for people who are bleeding heavily.
When we get a little cut, our body sends little “plugs” to form and block the hole in the blood vessel.
But sometimes, we get big cuts that are too big to plug and sometimes we even bleed from inside our body.
TXA is like super-plug that helps our body’s plugs work better. It makes the plugs blocking job more effective, so the bleeding stops faster. Kind of like adding glue and the bleeding stops faster. That’s why TXA is really helpful for people who are bleeding heavily.
When we get a little cut, our body sends little “plugs” to form and block the hole in the blood vessel.
But sometimes, we get big cuts that are too big to plug and sometimes we even bleed from inside our body.
TXA is like super-plug that helps our body’s plugs work better. It makes the plugs blocking job more effective, so the bleeding stops faster. Kind of like adding glue and the bleeding stops faster. That’s why TXA is really helpful for people who are bleeding heavily.
The other comment has covered this well, I’d just like to mention that the actual way in which TXA works is not necessarily by making the clots that form in a wound stronger by adding ‘glue’ to them itself, but by preventing the breakdown of the clot that would usually occur due to the action of a protein called plasmin. TXA prevents the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, which basically stops the clot from being broken down. TXA actually mimics a protein that does this in the body called lysine.
This may be a bit more detail than a five year old would like but I thought I’d mention it.
The other comment has covered this well, I’d just like to mention that the actual way in which TXA works is not necessarily by making the clots that form in a wound stronger by adding ‘glue’ to them itself, but by preventing the breakdown of the clot that would usually occur due to the action of a protein called plasmin. TXA prevents the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, which basically stops the clot from being broken down. TXA actually mimics a protein that does this in the body called lysine.
This may be a bit more detail than a five year old would like but I thought I’d mention it.
The other comment has covered this well, I’d just like to mention that the actual way in which TXA works is not necessarily by making the clots that form in a wound stronger by adding ‘glue’ to them itself, but by preventing the breakdown of the clot that would usually occur due to the action of a protein called plasmin. TXA prevents the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, which basically stops the clot from being broken down. TXA actually mimics a protein that does this in the body called lysine.
This may be a bit more detail than a five year old would like but I thought I’d mention it.
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