What do you do if you suffer from a rodent infestation? Stalk, slash or burn? Apparently our medical students have our own way of dealing with these sneaky creatures. Just ask a certain group of people living in Taman Soga. The story goes like this.....
Two housemates discovered they have non-paying guests in their house and set out to trap the tresspassers. They bought a sticky trap and set it out with bait. The next morning, lo and behold there's a rat in their trap. After the excitement faded, the question is what to do with the creature. Since they are trained in self-directed learning and knowing that rat-poison contains warfarin, they figure that bleeding is the way to go. Lacking warfarin, they used the next best thing....a vial of low molecular weight heparin! After injecting it into the rat ( at this point, some of you will ask how this is possible...let's just say one person held it down while the other locate a vein), they were disappointed to see the rat still alive and kicking. They probably just decreased the rat's life-time risk of MI and stroke by 50%.
After much discussion, they finally go the way of most lay people and used cleaning fluid. But being medical students, they injected it into the rat. To make a long and gruesome story short, there was bloating, convulsion and finally merciful death.
So kids, the moral of this story is....heparin doesnt kill rats....and dont ever be unconscious and land into the hands of these two fellas.
