Since our family tragedy 3 weeks ago I have been eating junk food and drinking too much wine. Surprised today to find that blood test showed INR to be ideal reading (2.3) !!!
Warfarin and food/ drink?: Since our... - Atrial Fibrillati...
Warfarin and food/ drink?
Well Chris junk food has no vit k in it so why would it change anything. The wine issue is probably over stated as well.
Bob
That's the worst part of trying to eat healthy you have all the things that upset warfarin. Surely you can not drink to much wine
You are right , I could not try a proper diet due to vitamin k
Eating a lot of veg or drinking herbal tea will change INR dramatically
G'day Chris-S,
I've been on the Warfarin stuff since Jan 2010 and despite very rigorous training covering the nature of warfarin, vita K and diet - before leaving hospital - the only two concessions I've made to Warfarin has been nil cranberry products and I've cut back on booze (but not by much !). I continue to eat all the green stuff I have always eaten. Junk food too, i.e. Maccas, KFC etc no problems at all. My diet is and has always been constant and consistent. Even when I followed the FODMAPS diet to deal with digestive issues this had no bearing on my Warfarin at all. INR has always fallen in the range 2.1 to 2.6. Occasionally it dips down to about 1.6 and occasionally up to 3.1 but this is dealt with by minor adjustments to the Warfarin dose rather than adjustments to my diet.
Good luck
Aussie John
hi john i to eat what i want , and have 2 bottles ov 2.8 vol english ale most nights plus the odd can ov cider, also drink alcohol free larger, my inr is always 2.3 2.5 and i feel fine.
Great! Just opened a bottle of claret and started sizzling a big fat burger, deep frying the chips and opening the brown sauce. Cheers!
Thanks for the chuckle - imagining an amazing AFers barbie!