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My INO is 1.4..too low. Are there foods that I can eat to make it higher?
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Not really, but there are things to reduce your consumption of ... Eating Anything with high levels of vitamin K will LOWER the INR number. So there are things NOT to eat in abundance.

Here's a list of foods and their relative vitamin K content. If you're eating a lot of high vitamin K foods, cut back on them.

Also note that vitamin K and INR react fairly quickly ... so if you consume a lot of vitamin K today and have a test tomorrow your INR may be lower than it is on average. Kind of like having a blood sugar test a couple hours after going to the donut shop!

The normal way of dealing with high Vit K foods is to eat them consistently and adjust the coumadin(warfarin) or other blood thinner med.

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The link I intended to put in here didn't seem to make it ... but there's a similar list here, along with lots of other good info ...

http://pfrc.med.nyu.edu/handouts/pdf/medic/warfa.pdf
Last Edit: 2010/04/28 12:51 By stuart.
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