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Originally Posted by daveT
Broccoli is high in Vitamin K, a coagulant. Maybe good or bad for this stuff, idk. It's just something I find interesting, but if medication wouldn't matter all, then I learned something new today.
Nah, it wouldn't matter at all. The leeches' anticoagulant doesn't work by being a vitamin K antagonist like warfarin.
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Originally Posted by de captain
I'm trying to figure out how to ask the following without sounding snarky. I'm genuinely curious.
You keep live maggots in your pharmacy to prescribe to patients, but you've never seen them prescribed?
Do you work in a highly specialized pharmacy, or do most (all) pharmacies keep live maggots?
How are they stored?
If you're not responsible for their care, who is?
Can you get that person to create an "ask me anything" thread?
1) I don't know if we actually have maggots. I presume we do. Somewhere. Or maybe they are something you order from cardinal health when you need them. I'll be back to update if I ever encounter an order for maggots. I'll answer the rest of the questions wrt leeches.
2) I work in a hospital pharmacy for the most prestigious hospital in the world. You're not gonna get leech therapy from an outpatient pharmacy. It's not something you do at home. I'm not sure if other hospitals have leeches. I assume they do as needing them is not that rare.
3) Leeches are stored in a really big glass jar. They're mostly laying around the bottom on top of each other in a 3-4 leech thick layer. They're pretty chill and lazy looking.
4) I assume one of the purchasing people. A big operation like this has a half-dozen people that order drugs and stuff (we get 3 pallets/day delivered to even my smaller pharmacy. Our sister hospital is like 4x bigger) and get everything where it's supposed to go on the shelves. When we need stuff we generally assume it's gonna be where it is supposed to be because those people take care of everything and are awesome at their jobs.