Re: Any Help Gratefully Received.
Originally Posted by
shropshiregirl
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Good afternoon all,
I hope you won’t mind me asking for your help. I am due a Warfarin blood test this Friday, and asking for anyone’s advice because whatever I consume will show up in the test for at least 10 days prior, so I have to be careful I don’t eat anything that is high in Vitamin K.
The problem - I am trying not to waste any food before my next shop, I have 2 x M&S Cornish Pasties in the fridge that I was planning to use for dinner tonight, the only problem is that it doesn’t say whether it has any Vitamin K contained in it! In fact, it doesn’t give any vitamin information at all. I have searched high and low on the net to find out whether and how much Vitamin K there is in a pasty, and I have had to admit defeat. They all show the calorific and nutritional information, but not a word on Vitamins.
I wonder if anyone perhaps on warfarin or suchlike happens to know. I wouldn’t bother you but the use by date is up by tomorrow, 20th and I don’t want to freeze them as they never somehow taste as nice once defrosted.
Thank you very much in advance.
Shroppie xx
Shrops,
Have you been on warfarin for a while, or is this going to be a new experience?
Reason for asking is that, round here, they've been moving people off Warfarin, onto apixaban.
Since apixaban doesn't involve monthly blood tests, it's much easier to live with.
Bit more expensive, for the practice, but balanced out by the amount of time for test/reviews/etc.
I understand that they moved me off Warfarin to help take the load off the staff due to Covid19.
Note: Just read the warfarin "instruction sheet".
It says in "Things which affect Warfarin":-
1) reduces effect of warfarin - Vitamin k, Foods such as liver, broccoli, brussels sprouts, green leafy vegetables, which all contain large amounts of K.
2) Avoid Cranberry or grapefruit juice
If you want to read the full sheet I'll copy and attach it to email.