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HOW DOES COMBAT GAUZE WORK?
Kaolin has been known for decades to activate blood clotting
The concept that blood and plasma develop clotting properties when exposed to glass or related materials has been known for about 50-60 years. This process can take place even when calcium and platelets are absent.
In 1958 Dr. Margolis from Oxford, England published a paper titled “The Kaolin Clotting Time”. In this study he developed a system to diagnose plasma clotting defects by using recalcified plasma where the contact surface and the number of platelets were kept constant. In his study, Dr. Margolis quickly recognized that instead of relying on the walls of glass tubes as the activating surface, he could get the same activation effect by adding kaolin to the process.
Further studies discovered that exposure of human plasma to kaolin (or glass-like substances) initiates a group of reactions known as contact activation phase which include the activation of the intrinsic blood coagulation sequence, the kinin-forming pathway, the plasma fibrinolytic system and the generation of permeability factors.
