Covid-19: Advice, Updates And Vaccine Options
Answer From Sheldon G. Sheps, M.D. Warfarin is a blood-thinning medication that helps treat and prevent blood clots. There is no specific warfarin diet.
However, certain foods and beverages can make warfarin less effective in preventing blood clots. It’s important to pay attention to what you eat while taking warfarin. Review/update the information highlighted below and resubmit the form.
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All medications, even life-savings ones, have potential side effects and risks. Diuretic: Avoid sodium
Because sodium causes the body to retain water, it can counteract the effect of diuretics that rid your body of fluid build-up.
Consistent Vitamin K Intake Is Key
Ations have been told in the past to limit their vitamin K intake. This is due to the belief that the vitamin interacts with the body’s clotting process and can interfere with the drug’s blood-thinning properties. According to a new clinical trial, people taking these drugs should actually be told to increase the amount of vitamin K they consume.
The rest attended counseling sessions and received cooking lessons that focused specifically on increasing consumption of vitamin K–rich vegetables, oils, and herbs. Guylaine Ferland, lead study author and professor of nutrition at Université de Montréal and scientist at the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre, said the findings suggest patients on warfarin would significantly benefit from consuming at least 90 micrograms of vitamin K per day for women and 120 micrograms per day for men. Warfarin is used to prevent blood clots from forming and is often used for medical conditions such as an irregular heartbeat, clots in the veins of the body called deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, and after a heart valve replacement.
What Is Warfarin?
A healthcare professional may prescribe it to: people who have previously experienced a heart attack
those with an irregular heartbeat
people with mechanical heart valves It’s also used to prevent blood clots from forming in your blood vessels. When clots are smaller, they’re more likely to dissolve on their own.