Possible interaction between warfarin and cranberry juice
- 18 December 2003
- Vol. 327 (7429) , 1454
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1454
Abstract
After a chest infection (treated with cefalexin), a man in his 70s had a poor appetite for two weeks and ate next to nothing, taking only cranberry juice as well as his regular drugs (digoxin, phenytoin, and warfarin). Six weeks after starting cranberry juice he had been admitted to hospital with an INR (international normalised ratio) > …Keywords
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