Hi
the best thing you can do to aid your learning about any topic (medical especially) is stop reading those "online sites". Most of what comes back from a standard google search is rubbish and even copy/pasted from other sites of the same ilk. They are in the main click fests and ad fests. Seriously FOX news is exactly the same business model. (stuff with names like "healthline" "askpatient" and that sort of place is untrustworthy).
If it is not a peer reviewed journal or a society of surgery or a vetted scientific source its about as accurate as the trash magazines on the supermarket checkout ends or the papers that MIB go to for Alien Activity. Of course they appear "on line" too but if its not a journal its likely to be rubbish.
read your own sentence and you'll get a great example of what to look for in words: "
that those oils can antagonize the blood thinners"
now, I am willing to bet that the sit you read said more like "
that those oils may antagonize the blood thinners"
Note the difference between can and may.
Be very careful with readings if you are going to take any sort of credence in them. That you didn't just look over the screen and say "Mary, look at this rubbish will ya" and posted the question here shows you put some credence in it.
Your best tool in understanding what interacts with your INR (and really INR is what you're interested in) is your coaguchek (or your POC machine of choice) and weekly readings with occasional bi-weekly readings to follow a trend you've observed.
Within a year of doing that you'll be your own expert about your own body's reaction to whatever.
For what its worth on
Skiing journys we take oils like Canola or Rapseed and drink about 100ml per day. Its light, requires less mucking around than a "meal" and has plenty of energy. I have yet to test this with my INR but by next ski season in Finland I will be ... I'll let ya know how it goes
PS: you say:
I've done loads of research on blood thinners since
then please stop calling them blood thinners for they most assuredly do not "thin the blood" in any. They are actually anti-coagulants. There are compounds that effect the bloods viscosity but nothing "thins the blood", as that would be fatal.
pardon me, but "blood thinners" is my pet peve.
To provide a more robust answer to your question:
More or less nothing that is food effects the INR unless it is a food
rich in Vitamin K . This is because Warfarin is a Vitamin K recycling antagonist. It works to lower your INR by blocking the recycling of VItamin K in the body (reducing the quantitys available). The only thing which will intefere with your INR is:
* something which causes the endocrine system to work faster (something the body regards as toxic and attempts to dispose of it fast) - this will work to knock down your Warfarin residual faster too. Thus some antibiotics and some medicines will lower your INR.
* something which interacts with Warfarin to enhance its activity. There are some food candidates suspect for this such as Grapefruit.
So in general the rule is don't worry about anything food - test your INR weekly to see if there has been anything happen (99% of the time there won't be, but we stop at stop signs and look in the rear vision mirror for the same reasons).
Hope this helps
