Veronica Campbell-Brown - NYTimes

I'm not a doctor but right - diuretics in cream? THis does not pass my bs detector, which is in fact a very weak bs detector.

Always the same excuses.

"It was a cream"

"It was flaxseed oil"

"It was B12 vitamin"

You think Dieter Baumann is her PR agent?

I am a doctor. Your bs detector is working great. Lasix is almost always oral. We use iv if the patient can't swallow or sometimes if increased doses are indicated. I've never heard of it in a cream and that would be a stupid idea anyway.

did she say the cream was spiked with the diuretic by an ex-partner maybe?

or maybe she stepped in some diuretic on the sidewalk and became infected that way?

plausible explanations

Ofcourseitis wrote:

I am a doctor. Your bs detector is working great. Lasix is almost always oral. We use iv if the patient can't swallow or sometimes if increased doses are indicated. I've never heard of it in a cream and that would be a stupid idea anyway.

Is it possible that some beauty creams would have the ingredient, especially if VCB was trying to use it on her legs to make her legs look better?

Obviously this is a BS excuse but it just might fly you know.

Ben L. Wrong wrote:

Always the same excuses.

"It was a cream"

"It was flaxseed oil"

"It was B12 vitamin"

"It was just to recovery from an injury"

"They said an important factor was whether or not the banned drug appeared on the label of the cream. The World Anti-Doping Agency has a strict liability policy under which athletes are held responsible for any drug found in their body."

If the cream actually does contain the banned substance and was not labeled, then I believe this should be easy to prove that she is innocent otherwise it looks like she's guilty (Hopefully the evidence shows she is clearly innocent).

so if shes innocent

won't she be putting all the info

-banned substance

-name of cream

in the public domain asap toi demonstrate her innocence??

is she on twitter right

Former Average Runner wrote:

Do they put diuretics in cream form?

Can any doctors or pharmacists on here verify if Lasix (Furosemide) can be put in cream form? Google doesn't show Furosemide available in a cream form, but it'd be interesting to here from a MD/PharmD

Why would she do that? The public does not decide if she is innocent. The people who will decide her fate, I would assume have all the information they need. All we gotta do is wait on the verdict.

Sure. You might be able to crush it up, dissolve it in oil, and mix it with cream. You could also manufacture it this way. It is extremely hydrophobic, making it fat soluble and great for creams. Here is a research paper on transdermal patches (like the nictine patch) with lasix, similair idea:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690787/

However, who would do this? certainly no company makes a cream for lasix. Lasix is mostly for people with congestive heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, intractable HTN in some cases, etc. The dosing is oral as mentioned above for a reason. It would be an assinine waste of money for a company to make a lasix cream. It would actually hurt their profits.

Short answer- No. There is no topical lasix cream available.

Skyart wrote:

Why would she do that? The public does not decide if she is innocent. The people who will decide her fate, I would assume have all the information they need. All we gotta do is wait on the verdict.

I would appreciate her listing the products so that I or others know not to use them

Skyart wrote:

Why would she do that?

To demonstrate to her adoring public that she has nothing to hide.

Lol doesn't that make like 3 jamaicans in the past few WEEKS??

If there was a real diuretic in her system, she would have been peeing like crazy. And being a veteran, she (or her coach/doctor/team) should have been already suspicious before testing positive. So, do they know the cream has a diuretic or how did they narrow it down unless it is the only medicine she is on? How much diuretic can you dose yourself to test positive in the form of a cream?

Maggie Vessey and Veronica Campbell-Brown have strikingly different musculature.

Still wouldn't make a difference... Also why do people keep saying it was lasix? It wasn't an official source that said it was.

Why would a drug that is known to have diuretic properties be added to a cream in the first place? How would it be used to help with a leg injury? Is there any feasible explanation for that?