Originally Posted By: Bingley
The novel made fun of them, but heck, now we're putting kaolin clay in gauze!

Duh, I totally missed the fact that QCG now uses kaolin as the coagulating agent, not a zeolite-based agent anymore. (I need to read more carefully!) No wonder QCG performs differently on people taking anticoagulants than what I had read in the past about QuikClot. OK, now that makes more sense to me.

As an aside, the diarrhea medication Kaopectate (and other brands) used to use kaolin clay as their primary ingredient, so many of us have been benefitting from using clay for a long time. Kaolin was phased out of all of those meds back in the 90's IIRC, but most brands retained the "kao" brand names.