What foods enhance the blood thinner Coumadin?


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The first answer about green vegetables is WRONG!!

Green vegetables contain more Vitamin K than other vegetables. Vitamin K directly counteracts coumadin.

A patient on coumadin can eat greens, but they need to eat a realtively consistent amount. Their health care provider needs to be regularly monitoring their blood. The test is called INR.

Some herbals, such as ginko,can potentiate coumadin.

Many prescription meds interact with coumadin.

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Most of the greens you must not eat you will end up bleeding a lot at a dangerous rate

The basic ingredient in Coumadin is warfarin(generic name). In the old days this chemical was used as rat poison, to kill rats,(but in larger quantities).



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