SteveB wrote:
> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>> jmcquown wrote:
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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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.
>>
>> --
>> 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?
>
> Steve
>
Well, actually we *do* tell our patients that they can have moderate
amounts of these vegetables as long as the consumption is consistent
and in routine amounts. The routine consumption of Vit K rich vegetables
will be accounted for in their routine labs. The problems come up when
people eat them only occasionally or eat far more or less than they have
been accustomed to.
Patients don't need to do any "adjusting" of their medicine to
accommodate the intake. The routine labs will show if their PT level is
therapeutic or not and the doctor will adjust the daily dose as needed.