I was listening to morning live on Monday and Dr Ranj Singh was on the programme talking about blood thinners he said with some of them you shouldn't eat Brocoli or drink Cranberry juice.
I'm on Asprin and Ticagrelor what are your thoughts im a bit worried should I or should I not be consuming both.
Don't want to make a doctors appointment just to ask a question.
Cranberry and some green vegetables refer to people taking Warfarin, not those on Aspirin.
thank you Coopergirl
I take clopidogrel and I detest broccoli so now I can ban it from our kitchen.
Clopidogrel has pretty much eliminated migraines.
So it’s my favoured medication.
Sooty
I'm on both aspirin and clopidogrel, can't take cranberry with the clopidogrel. I too read veg like cauliflower and broccoli can interfere with things like apixaban and warfarin etc
It's the amount of Vitamin K in them but refers to Warferin not Aspirin.
You could read the patient information leaflet in with your pills, that will tell you, and for extra reassurance speak to a pharmacist. They are very knowledgable about drug interactions.
Just what I was going to comment and mentioned to my wife.
Indeed, there is little/no point in speaking to your doctor about what interacts well or harmfully with medication. They simply don't have a clue.The pharmacists are the ones to ask, indeed they frequently have to correct doctors prescribing as the doctor will have given two medications which interact badly with each other
The issue I found that drs are given a rule of thumb to follow, it doesn't account for how people's body takes in blood thinners, reacts how well they work every one's body is diffrent so as far as yes the answer is those things have things in them which can affect blood thinning medication, it depends how much you have and again your body will deal with them diffrent too, I've learned that eating a diet where If eating vegetables I eat them, i want to drink i do, and dose to my diet not diet to dose.
I agree. My INR seems to jump all over the place now that I am on warfarin. I can't see the reason why but obviously, my body/system is sensitive and works differently to the guidelines. Even taking a paracetamol for a cold or getting more exercise or less sleep or skipping a meal when I am on the run, all seems to make a different.
The only warning I was aware of was not having grapefruit with statins. I take Clopedogrel and Apixban and eat a tonne of brocolli so will check those leaflets now!
Hi my anticoagulant as recently changed from 5 years on warfarin to Edoxaban. On warfarin I had to avoid certain foods or if I ate them to eat in small amounts. As someone said it has to do with vitamin K consumption.
I had a long list of foods to avoid or eat in moderation. Cranberry was on the definite no no list. I loved broccoli and would eat it twice a week regularly and it never affected my INR results. Now I have been changed, my pharmacist told me I can eat what I want drink what I want. The only thing I cannot have is grapefruit, which affects a lot of medicines.
All the best.
Warfarin is a vitamin K antagonist! That's the way it works. Vitamin K is a "blood clotter" and Warfarin prevents it working. Many green leave foods carry copious amounts of vitamin K like spinach, broccoli, lettuce etc. You don't need to stop eating them but you must consume them in a "regular" pattern ie; try to eat a similar amount on a weekly basis. You must dose the diet and not the opposite. If you stabilise your INR it would not be prudent to stop eating broccoli for example, or to go totally vegan as this would affect greatly your INR. The key is to try and eat a similar diet. Cranberries are the same. If you take them you can't just start taking double or stop altogether UNLESS you monitor your INR accordingly. Hope this helps.
this is the advice that i was also given - i was on warfarin for a while and was concerned, but the staff from the blood thinner clinic were very helpful (before my discharge from hospital!!!!!) - in fact i got ore help from them than from any of the ward staff
I’m on aspirin and Ticagrelor. The leaflet for Ticagrelor (Brilique) has no dietary precautions but does warn about taking it with certain other medicines.
Hi, I’m on aspirin and Warfarin and can’t have grapefruit or cranberries in my diet. Have been told they interfere with the meds,
Hello. When I first started on Warfarin I was told lots of things by people who should know better. Numerous foods and drinks interact with the drug but if you consume a regular amount and don't either stop or binge, there are few problems as your dosage can be adjusted accordingly. You must also understand that the medical profession likes to control everything. Anything for a quiet life! I have a friend who's husband, for the last four years of his life (he was 84) took Warfarin and was devastated when he was told he could not drink red wine, which was his life's love. That was wrong!
When I was on warfarin I couldn’t take cranberry but was told I could otherwise eat a normal diet. If that included a lot of greens then that was fine and would dictate the amount of warfarin I needed to cope.
I am now on edoxaban and haven’t been told of any dietary restrictions which is great because I love cranberry.
That's what I was saying in my other reply. One should adjust the dose to the diet and not vice versa.
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