What foods raise your inr levels?

Are you tired of feeling like a pincushion every time you go to the doctor for your INR test? Do you dread hearing those three little letters and wondering what your results will be? Well, fear not my friends! In this article, we’ll explore which foods can raise your INR levels so you can adjust accordingly.

What is an INR?

Before we dive into the foods that affect our INR levels, let’s make sure we all understand what an INR actually is. INR stands for International Normalized Ratio and it’s a measure of how long it takes your blood to clot. People who are taking blood thinning medication (like warfarin) use their INR level as a guide for dosing adjustments.

Basically, if your blood is clotting too quickly (i.e., not at all), then there’s a risk of serious bleeding – not ideal. On the other hand, if your blood isn’t clotting enough, there’s potential damage from clots themselves lurking in cozy little corners throughout important parts within our body- also pretty bad news.

Ideally, people want to have an INR somewhere between 2-3 depending upon why they’re getting anticoagulation therapy in first place – keeping it simple think “two hearts beat as one” (it’s true love!)

But maintaining this range requires balance more delicate than performance art on stilts when using the guidance provided by physician via carefully monitoring disease state with frequent blood tests along with diet control!

Warfarin Thursdays

This brings us back to our topic at hand: Which foods can raise our precious and delicate INRs, besides just forgetting altogether about those thrice-weekly doses before launching off bedridden escapades?

While almost any food has the potentialto tip someone over his or her safe zone, there are foods and other substances you would never think about that can be quite catastrophic to our lovely little veins.

So clear your schedule for a minute or two, buckle up, roll down those windows(for fresh air), and get ready for the ride of your life! We’re diving into some seriously sudden INR level-changing food pair-downs.

Foods and Beverages You Should Limit

These foods may contain high amounts of vitamin K which is known to potentially counteract the effects of warfarin. It’s important not to eliminate vitamin K altogether from our daily diet because it plays a beneficial role in blood clotting regulation.

However when taken with a healthy dose of common sense displayed by any given individual (which as we all know could either fill an entire library volume or at best empty out children’s’ story books) depending on certain large range degree [depending on who one asks], knowing which foods can outfit this plate along with their respective approximations towards containing respective VK values becomes useful:

  • Spinach (No surprise here): 1/2 cup cooked spinach -391% DV
  • Broccoli: 1/2 cup frozen chopped broccoli – 110%-116%
  • Asparagus: Four spears boiled – (65%)
  • Brussel Sprouts:(½-cup parboiled) contains45µg(56%) per100 g.

It should also be noted that alcohol,introduced suddenly in binge-ish quantities-even without beverages known functionally contraindicative impact upon regulating anticoagulation therapy itself–can affect your body’s ability to absorb Warfarin properly, leadingto sharper unpredictable increases/depreciations within therapeutic dose response.

Cranberry Juice Craze

Everyone loves cranberry juice — especially around Thanksgiving time. But did you know that drinking too much cranberry juice while taking warfarin can actually cause problems? When consumed in large amounts, cranberry juice can increase INR levels and potentially cause bleeding.

So think twice before downing that extra glass at the dinner table otherwise there’ll be no turkey for you next time!

Foods and Beverages to Enjoy in Moderation or Restriction

The following foods may also affect your INR level, but are generally safe as long as they are eaten in moderation. So go ahead and have a little of your favorite delight :

  • Cabbage(p. 175)
  • Lettuce
  • Endive – Brussels types
  • Romaine – cos type lettuce
  • Soy productseightemerginger trends here) vegetables/legumes): (Snowkoala nut milk!) tempeh etc.

Most importantly for each person’s diet, consistently corresponding responsible requests regarding communication with Physician throughout cautionary process is essential seeking robust anticoagulant therapy limitations regarding any preparatory prior clinical history adaptation periods; don’t avoid just base food avoidance entirely like some sort of malnourished medieval serf.

Keep Track of Your Diet

In conclusion, while it’s important to enjoy life when possible by eating what tastes good without causing any constraints our medication doses could result from makes navigating not so easy sometimes); it is essential we keep track and make careful notes about your dietary choices whilst surefootedly embracing individual needs concerning certain plans developed with physician consultancy.

There! Now repeat after me: “I am the master of my own fate; I am the captain of my INR!”(Well..sorta.)

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