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Article: Urge warfarin users to avoid cranberry juice.(Geriatric Medicine)(Brief Article)
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- Family Practice News
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- March 1, 2005
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BRECKENRIDGE, COLO. -- Warfarin plus cranberry juice can add up to big trouble.
A series of five case reports of a suspected clinically significant drug-food interaction between warfarin (Coumadin) and cranberry juice has prompted the United Kingdom's Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to warn patients on the oral anticoagulant to limit consumption of cranberry juice or avoid it altogether, Jacci Bainbridge, Pharm.D., said at a conference on epilepsy syndromes sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio.
"The volume of cranberry juice in these cases was glasses per day, not gallons and ...