Second food:

Tofu (bean curd)

Any reliable data on that?

The site that I use(d) evidently isn't too ethnically balanced (!) I finally found it under "soybean, curd cheese"!!!!!!!!!!! Geesh!

So, it's higher than I want it to be. Boo hoo! 10.3 mcg per 1 cup.
So----- back to using pork belly instead of tofu. LOL

i've never worried about my vitamin k intake i just eat a good diet .and let them adjust my INR to my diet .i not saying go out and eat a ton on greens.but i eat every thing i like

farmboy----- If that works for you----- and I'm sure it does---- good news.

My personal goal is to try and keep my 'pill burden' down along with not having to change my dosage too often. But I'll certainly change it when I need to.

If your truly a 'Minnesota farm boy' as your moniker suggests---- maybe you eat as I did as the daughter of Missouri farmers. (grin) That was delicious meat and potatoes and not huge on vegetables.

I moved to CA a LONG time ago-----and that was when I started eating ethnic based foods and loved them---- so my diet is now very different now than it was when I was young. My parents wouldn't even recognize the name of some of the things I eat!!! (grin)

Next lesser food---- nori (dried seaweed sheets)

Aw, snap!!! It's even higher than spinach! Of course not much is used each time. I just bought an onigiri mold at Goodwill and want to play with it.

just eat consistently!
if you have spinnach each day before a clot then continue with that.
When you worry too much and try to analyze every little thing to death then you will have more and more problems

And yes I have had many clots and i still live life

I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time following this. Me, I don't limit vitamin K intake. I eat like I did before my PE, and really, it was basically consistent then and so there was nothing to change.

I have pretty much disregarded any notion of trying to limit, or figure out foods with vitamin k. I think the notion of that is a very antiquated approach. Eat healthy, eat what you enjoy eating, and just be relatively consistent.

I have always eaten fairly erratically, so I'm trying to limit Vit K intake until my INR is stabilized for at least a few weeks. Then I'll work on upping my vegetable and Vit K intake while working with my doctor's office to keep the INR where it's supposed to be.

It's not a perfect plan, but it's the plan that works best for me.

I'm already on a fairly high dose of the warfarin, so I'd rather not take more than I already am :(

I use the fourth page of this pdf as my chart:
http://www.stlukesfp.org/forms/VitaminK.pdf

Sorry but there are so many variables to warfarin doasage that you can't control and that can change daily........... There is no need to worry or obsess about vit K in food.

Eat live drink and get healthy......... Sometimes you can't control when a clot happens so don't worry and live life just in case it decides to change course unexpectly!

Right on!

For 4 years, I've been on stretches where my dosage was 11mgs, stretches where my dosage was 15mgs and stretches of different dosages in between without any significant diet changes, so yeah, it's more complex than just what you ate. There are many variables that can impact your INR .

I second what the others r saying - it's mentally and physically bad to be obsessing over vit k. Ur INR is also affected by so many other factors including liver function, when u take ur warfarin in relation to when u eat and specifically what u eat at the time as to how well the warfin is processed. Stress (adrenaline) and other hormones also affect uptake and consequently INR.

Think about it logically - if u restrict vit k intake initially then go back to 'normal' diet when u've stabilized then ur back at square one when u start eating properly again. Also they tend to test more frequently in the beginning to understand how ur body processes warfarin so possibly more dangerous to b messing with ur diet the further out from diagnosis as ur likely to b having less frequent tests and more likely to get into INR troubles.

Your body needs the nourishment of good healthy food particularly during recovery. I don't mean to sound rude but I don't think it's a very good idea listing foods on this site in this manner otherwise ur sending the wrong message to others. Particularly when most people on here appear to be from western countries where bad diet and obesity is such a problem that we should b encouraging people to maintain a healthy balanced diet. Promoting consistency is the key to assisting stabilize the INR. Please try to not obsess over it - I know it's hard as I think it feels like ur able to take control back over ur situation. Hope I'm not being too blunt.

Take care and nourish ur body logically to help it recover.

Long ago, thrombophiles on Warfarin were advised to avoid foods with Vitamin K. Most of the more recent advice is to eat what is appealing and "dose to the diet" instead of the older "diet to the dose" whenever possible.

That does not make it valueless to be keenly aware of Vitamin K and its sources, or to use it as a tool to bring down INR in some situations, but trying to keep its quantity down in order to keep the dose down can actually be dangerous. Complete knowledge and perfect consistency are hard to achieve, and a low vitamin K diet can lead to a huge percentage change in intake with the slightest variation.
http://www.clotcare.com/vitaminkandwarfarin.aspx

More2be---- thanks for your reference. It's much appreciated.

In the article it states:
"In order to maintain a consistent intake of vitamin K, you need to know something about the vitamin K content of the foods you eat."

To quote Sheldon------Bazinga! (grin)

I disagree. I think it's more important to eat consistently, so that your warfarin is adjusted to your diet. That way you don't get the wild swings in INR. I've never used vitamin K in foods to control my INR. Of course I'm not testing my INR every other day either which causes some people to be more wound up about it, in my opinion.

More lesser foods:

Lima beans (I love them) and they contain about 9 mcg Vit K per cup. And they're GREEN! (grin)

Miso---- one oz of the actual miso in the container has about 9 mcg also.

Vit K 'hides' in unexpected places, I was told by the coag nurse----- who spent a lot of time instructing about diet and Vit K.

Watch the oils-------
Olive oil has 8 mcg per tablespoon
Soybean oil has about 3
Peanut oil (my most used oil) has almost no Vit K.

you will drive yourself and others crazy by worrying so much

go out get healthy and enjoy life!

I've had more than my fair share of clots and now am on a drug with an off label use and just enjoy life.

And the way the medical profession goes these days.... one day something can be good for you the next day it isn't.........

So go have a huge salad with lots of lima beans and Olive oil dressing