Coumadin 5 mg tablet
What is Coumadin 5mg?
This medication is used to treat blood clots (such as in deep vein thrombosis-DVT or pulmonary embolus-PE) and/or to prevent new clots from forming in your body. Preventing harmful blood clots helps to reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack.
What is Coumadin used to treat?
Warfarin (brand names Coumadin and Jantoven) is a prescription medication used to prevent harmful blood clots from forming or growing larger. Beneficial blood clots prevent or stop bleeding, but harmful blood clots can cause a stroke, heart attack, deep vein thrombosis, or pulmonary embolism.
What’s the side effects of Coumadin?
What are the side effects of Coumadin (Warfarin (Oral))?
- sudden headache, feeling very weak or dizzy;
- swelling, pain, unusual bruising;
- bleeding gums, nosebleeds;
- bleeding from wounds or needle injections that will not stop;
- heavy menstrual periods or abnormal vaginal bleeding;
What color is 5 mg of Coumadin?
Warfarin Tablet Identification
| Tablet Strength | Tablet Color |
|---|---|
| 4 mg | Blue |
| 5 mg | Peach (light orange) |
| 6 mg | Teal (blue-green) |
| 7.5 mg | Yellow |
Is Coumadin and warfarin the same?
Warfarin controls the way that blood clots (thickens into a lump) inside your blood vessels. The brand names of warfarin are Coumadin® and Jantoven®.
Is Coumadin really rat poison?
The chemicals in question are anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs), which work like the human blood-thinning drug warfarin. Warfarin is itself used as a rat poison, but is what environmental toxicologists call a first-generation AR, less lethal and less prone to bioaccumulation than its second-generation successors.
What are the side effects of warfarin 5 mg?
Severe bleeding, including heavier than normal menstrual bleeding. Red or brown urine. Black or bloody stool. Severe headache or stomach pain.