To tell you about tranexamic acid (TXA). Could stop you bleeding to death, but women aren't getting it.

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There's no good medical reason, but all over the UK, men are twice as likely to get this lifesaving drug as women. It could save your life after a car accident or a fall. It will save 3 out of ten people who get it. Post menopausal women get it even less than other women.

It's reliable science - experts have proved the gap, but they can't explain it.

Please remember to ask about tranexamic acid if you or a loved one are injured.

www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/18/injured-women-discrimination-life-saving-drugs-researchers

Some of us take it monthly for period flooding too, so it's weird it's known about for that yet not accidental bleeding . . .

I saw the earlier thread.
So thank you op for drawing wider attention to this.

TXA is used in a set protocol for high velocity trauma and in this mechanism of injury the delivery is equal in men and women.
It is not routinely used in lower velocity trauma (which carries a lower risk of bleeding) The lower velocity trauma affects and older female cohort more frequently.
The delivery of TXA is probably not gender based but mechanism based.

The lower velocity trauma affects and older female cohort more frequently.

Then there is a sex issue, whether it is intentional or not. It's like the difference between the obvious, typically presenting heart attacks which are more commonly experienced by men and the less immediately obvious ones women are more likely to have.

Other research (in the US) has found that women are less likely to be given aspirin to combat blood clotting, and less likely to be blue lighted to hospital than men with chest pain, and less likely to be resuscitated after out of hospital cardiac arrest.

The study states that women receive this treatment less frequently regardless of mechanism of injury @cakesandchocolate - so elderly women being more prone to falls than car accidents may have an effect, though that's a systems failure if so. But it doesn't account for it all. You're less likely to receive this if injured in a car crash than a man.

thats strange, I got given it 2 months ago due to a long period but I didn't want to take it as I don't like taking medication unless general painkillers :S

This is about it being given after trauma.

Or not given when it should be, as here.

Tranaxamic acid caused me to have a pulmonary embolism last year. It isn't always appropriate to use. Please be careful giving medical advice.