I just had my first post-release appointment with my regular doctor. It's a bit interesting how my understanding of what's happening is evolving
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Well, the USDA is tasked with oversight of agriculture and animals, not with drugs -- that's the purview of the FDA. I'd actually be more cautious about the hospital document, as you don't know who wrote it and you don't know who did the quality control on it. I've found simple errors in veterinary nutrition textbooks that were basically dropping a "not" from a sentence and completely reversing the meaning of the original statement.
In any case, what you do is go to multiple trusted sources and find out what the range is for those foods. You can also search on PubMed, and if you find any interesting looking abstracts, send them to me and I'll get the articles for you.
Here's a few places to start:
NIH Clinical Center (yes, another public institution, devoted to helping people get well) the Army's SAMMC handout (oh, another federal bureaucracy, but still..) eMedicine (this one's for health care professionals, but includes a list of the foods again as well as an overview of Warfarin)
I had figured out that, in this instance, I wanted numbers from medical, rather than agricultural, sources. Beyond that, I wasn't sure where to go, and I know how highly something shows up on Google is a function of its popularity. Most of the time, I can tell which is probably reliable and which is obvious nonsense from what I already know. This is one of the instances where I don't know enough of the subject at hand to do that.
Yup. As it happens, my mother is also on coumadin for the rest of her life (she has a mechanical mitral valve), and as a retired chemist, she immediately launched into study, titration of foods vs dose, and settled on a diet/dose that made her happy.
In any case, what you do is go to multiple trusted sources and find out what the range is for those foods. You can also search on PubMed, and if you find any interesting looking abstracts, send them to me and I'll get the articles for you.
Here's a few places to start:
NIH Clinical Center (yes, another public institution, devoted to helping people get well)
the Army's SAMMC handout (oh, another federal bureaucracy, but still..)
eMedicine (this one's for health care professionals, but includes a list of the foods again as well as an overview of Warfarin)
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I had figured out that, in this instance, I wanted numbers from medical, rather than agricultural, sources. Beyond that, I wasn't sure where to go, and I know how highly something shows up on Google is a function of its popularity. Most of the time, I can tell which is probably reliable and which is obvious nonsense from what I already know. This is one of the instances where I don't know enough of the subject at hand to do that.
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