The old adage “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” now has science to back it up: Harvard researchers have found that rutin, a substance contained in that fruit (as well as in onions, buckwheat, and tea), has potent anticlotting powers that could help prevent heart attack and stroke.
Citrus fruit such as oranges, grapefruit, and lemons contain many antioxidants that can lower inflammation, prevent blood clots, and improve blood circulation.
Foods rich in vitamin E, such as almonds, avocado, and spinach, can help dissolve blood clots. Vitamin E has anticoagulant properties and can help prevent blood clots from forming. It is recommended to consume foods rich in vitamin E regularly.
Apples have a host of antioxidant flavonoid compounds quercetin, epicatechin, epigallocatechin, kaempferol and another polysyllabic that lowers LDL or bad cholesterol. In fact, apples work on the same principle as do blood thinners or statins.
Don't: Eat the Wrong Foods
Vitamin K can affect how the drug works. So you have to be careful about the amounts of kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, chard, or collard or mustard greens you eat. Green tea, cranberry juice, and alcohol can affect blood thinners, too.
All the fruits in the berry-family, including strawberries, cranberries, and blueberries are significant blood thinners. Oranges, tangerines, cherries, raisins, prunes, pineapples, and tomatoes work in the same manner.
Grapefruit and other citrus fruits can interfere with how your body metabolizes these medications.
A team at the Harvard Medical School have found that a chemical, called rutin, found in apples, oranges and onions could prevent blood clot formation in the arteries and veins, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
In a study of healthy, middle-aged adults, consumption of one apple a day for four weeks lowered by 40 percent blood levels of a substance linked to hardening of the arteries. Eating an apple a day might in fact help keep the cardiologist away, new research suggests.
Promote heart health.
Multiple studies have found that apples effectively lower LDL (bad) cholesterol while simultaneously helping eliminate excess cholesterol from the veins and arteries – thereby helping prevent cardiovascular disease.
Anticoagulants, such as heparin, warfarin, dabigatran, apixaban, and rivaroxaban, are medications that thin the blood and help to dissolve blood clots.
Thrombolytics - medicine that dissolves blood clots. Catheter-directed thrombolysis - a procedure in which a long tube, called a catheter, is surgically inserted and directed toward the blood clot where it delivers clot-dissolving medication.
If you're diagnosed with a blood clot, you may have to take a blood thinning medication, also called an anticoagulant. This type of medication stops the clot from growing and allows your body to break it down naturally, before it can travel to other areas of your body.
It appears that soured whole milk rather than low-fat reduces the risk of blood clots. A new study from Aarhus University shows that replacing cheese, milk or soured whole milk with e.g. yoghurt with a high fat content is connected to a lower risk of thrombosis in the brain.
Blueberries also reduce platelet aggregation, helping to prevent blood clots. Animal studies have found that blueberries help protect the brain from oxidative stress and may reduce the effects of age-related conditions such as Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
. . . rutin in apples is a better blood-thinner than any medication We have always maintained that food is our best medicine.
Specifically, these researchers found that whole apple consumption reduced total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol), systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure and plasma inflammatory cytokines. In turn, apple consumption can increase HDL cholesterol, the helpful form of cholesterol.
It takes about 3 to 6 months for a blood clot to go away. During this time, there are things you can do to relieve symptoms. Elevate your leg to reduce swelling. Talk to your doctor about using compression stockings.
lie on their sides with a pillow between the knees if desirable.
Bleeding disorders: Magnesium seem to slow blood clotting. In theory, taking magnesium might increase the risk of bleeding or bruising in people with bleeding disorders.
Warfarin is used to slow blood clotting. Avocado has been reported to decrease the effects of warfarin. Decreasing the effects of warfarin might increase the risk of clotting.
Foods You Can Eat on a Warfarin Diet
These are the foods that are considered safe to consume: Meat, fish, and eggs. Milk, cheese, and yogurt. Grains, bread, rice, and pasta.
Because you are taking a blood thinner, you should try not to hurt yourself and cause bleeding. You need to be careful when you use knives, scissors, razors, or any sharp object that can make you bleed. You also need to avoid activities and sports that could cause injury. Swimming and walking are safe activities.