"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> SteveB wrote:
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>>>>> "SteveB" <toquervilla@zionvistas> wrote in message
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>>>>>> Any here who are post CABG (coronary artery bypass surgery). Would
>>>>>> you care to share your recipes and food practices with regard to
>>>>>> cholesterol, coumadin, et al? Other tips or practices?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>> My wife takes coumadin. The most important thing is to know what
>>>>> foods affect it and be consistent with them. Green salads are OK if
>>>>> you eat them in moderation two or three times a week, but if you eat
>>>>> spinach every day for a week, then don't eat any for a month, you will
>>>>> be out of whack for the PT test.
>>>>>
>>>> They put my mother back on coumadin while she was in the hospital.
>>>> When she came home and I went over the list of (30!) meds they had her
>>>> on (he wasn't the one who prescribed this madness) I pointed out
>>>> spinach is one of the few things she'll eat. And she can't eat spinach
>>>> if she's taking coumadin. He prescribed a low-dose aspirin instead.
>>>> You do indeed have to be careful about food and drug interactions.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>> He could have adjusted the dosage to accommodate the spinach.
>>>
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>>> Janet Wilder
>>> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
>>> Good Friends. Good Life
>>
>> You, apparently are an uninformed person. Spinach is one of the top
>> three things that one taking Coumadin can NOT eat.
>>
>> Where did you get your medical degree?
>
> I have a husband who has been taking coumadin for 7 years. His
> cardiologist has told him that he doesn't have to avoid foods. He gets his
> pro-time or INR checked every 3 to 4 weeks and the physician adjusts his
> dosage.
>
> I don't have a medical degree, but my husband's physician has one. I'd
> rather listen to a licensed cardiologist than you. YMMV
>
>
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> Janet Wilder
> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
> Good Friends. Good Life

Well, believe it or not, there are doctors out there who don't know what
they are doing. Any doctor that tells his patient on coumadin that they
don't have to avoid foods should be flipping burgers. Apparently your
husband's cardiologist is one of those. But he's probably be crappy
flipping burgers, too.

I submit that if you get any information provided by the makers of Coumadin
that there is a list of foods that people on coumadin should completely
avoid, if not severely restrict their intake.

I don't have a degree either, but have been going through this for fifteen
years now, and have a brother and sister who have done the same. My sis is
1.5 years post transplant now, and had was the first woman in the United
States to get a LVA.

I do not know everything, but I really do know what I know.

Steve