dangers of eating your greens

[kimba1]

this is what happens when you eat vegetables without consultinmg your doctors. I started adding kale to my diet and it`s having a severe reaction to the plavix I take daily. these bruises are on my legs,arms & chest also it`s give me some super nasty headaches.
PSA warning,If your under medication check with your doctor before starting eating healthy. some drugs just don`t get along with some foods.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I have never been a fan of kale, but if I were you, I'd give it up and try something else, like broccoli.

There was a brand of margarine that promised to lower my cholesterol, and gave me a rash. It took me a week to figure out the cause, as I thought it was a fungus problem. I stopped using the margarine, and the rash disappeared. And I only used it on a couple of slices of bread once a day.

There is still not any sort of comprehensive listing of allergetic reactions and their causes, my doctor tells me.

[Amianthus]

I have never been a fan of kale, but if I were you, I'd give it up and try something else, like broccoli.

Broccoli and kale are related; it's likely that the broccoli would have a similar reaction.

Here is a quick list: Foods to Avoid When Taking Plavix

[Kramer]

I have never been a fan of kale, but if I were you, I'd give it up and try something else, like broccoli.

There was a brand of margarine that promised to lower my cholesterol, and gave me a rash. It took me a week to figure out the cause, as I thought it was a fungus problem. I stopped using the margarine, and the rash disappeared. And I only used it on a couple of slices of bread once a day.

There is still not any sort of comprehensive listing of allergetic reactions and their causes, my doctor tells me.

Don't quit your day job Dr Nutjob!

[Xavier_Onassis]

Since kale is clearly a green, leafy vegetable, and broccoli is green but not leafy, I thought that it might be appropriate. Perhaps the florets are mutated leaflets.

But if it is related, then don't take it. Apparently Vitamin K is the problem, and both kale and broccoli have lots of it.

I usually google medicines I am taking to find out what might cause problems. It seems to be a good idea.

[Amianthus]

"Kale or borecole is a form of cabbage (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), green or purple, in which the central leaves do not form a head. It is considered to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms. The species Brassica oleracea contains a wide array of vegetables including broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, and brussels sprouts. The cultivar group Acephala also includes spring greens and collard greens, which are extremely similar genetically."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale

[BT]

Kimba,

Have you been tested for diabetes?  I take plavix, eat brocolli and spinach and don't bruise like that.

[Christians4LessGvt]

i saw kale at the Whole Foods Market buffet last night
thought about trying it but didn't
is kale not a good thing to eat?
i've never heard of it

[kimba1]

no diabetes,but I did just came back from the doctor and she used the exact same website that ami used. she`s more worried about my general plavix reaction than the kale. pretty much what all doctors tell me. call a doctor if you got severe cherst ,back pain.
vomiting,nausea ets. also.
the kales was only a problem since I eat other greem vegies already and the addition simply tipped my vitamin k  limit. but the bruising is a plavix reaction whichMIGHT be result of it. just to be safe shwe took more blood samples from me. I lost count how many sample they took from me. something about platlets

[BT]

Are you taking any statins?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Kale is a major staple of Southern cooking. It is grown as a crop in rotation with tobacco, as farmers believe that it replaces nutrients in the soil that tobacco takes out. I used to rent half a farmhouse in Charles Co. MD on a tobacco farm, and the landlady, who grew tobacco with her sons, would always bring us kale every day, cooked in vinegar, about three pounds of it.

Kale is not bad once or twice a week, but every day it gets boring. Pauline, the landlady let me know that she disliked the way the previous tenants put excess kale in the trash barrel, so every three days or so, I would fling it as a dumpster at the Charlotte Hall General Store on my way to teach every day.

[Kramer]

Kale is a major staple of Southern cooking. It is grown as a crop in rotation with tobacco, as farmers believe that it replaces nutrients in the soil that tobacco takes out. I used to rent half a farmhouse in Charles Co. MD on a tobacco farm, and the landlady, who grew tobacco with her sons, would always bring us kale every day, cooked in vinegar, about three pounds of it.

Kale is not bad once or twice a week, but every day it gets boring. Pauline, the landlady let me know that she disliked the way the previous tenants put excess kale in the trash barrel, so every three days or so, I would fling it as a dumpster at the Charlotte Hall General Store on my way to teach every day.

you should have had a spine to say no instead of wasting it.

[kimba1]

simvastatin 40mg

[BT]

be careful with that and report any muscle pain immediately. That is the drug that gave me my frozen shoulders.

[kimba1]

frozen shoulders?