Re: Does coconut oil contain vitamin K?

[Guest guest]

According to the USDA food database, coconut oil contains 0.5

micrograms of Vitamin K per 100 grams of coconut oil, and 0 Vit.K per

tablespoon.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

Your doctor not knowing this proves your doctor is an idiot and not to

be trusted.

There is NO vitamin K in cod liver oil. There is also NO vitamin K in

herring oil. I would guess all fish oils are similar but you might

want to send an e-mail to the folks who refine/sell the fish iol you

normally use.

I would say that your doctor wants to keep you from caring for your

own health. I'd fire him.

Alobar

On 9/1/08, e713521036 <e713521036@...> wrote:

> In July I fractured my fibula and the othropedic doctor recommended

> a titanium piece of metal with screws be surgically implanted.

>

> I had the surgury July 29th. I have to be non weight bearing on my

> right foot for 6 to 8 weeks. September 1st completed the 5th non

> weight bearing week. I am writing from the hospital September 1st

> I had a complication.. pulmonary embolism ..MASSIVE

> EMBOLISM, WITH INFARCTIONS.. and involving both lungs.

>

> The doctor will not permit me to use coconut oil.( coconut oil or

> any supplements, or anti oxidents ( fish oil, cod liver oil) He does

> not recommend coconut oil when I leave the hospital, as " you dont

> know whether it has vitamin K in it. " And he doesnt recommend taking

> any extra vitamin K..since I am now stuck taking levenox something,

> and coumidan, both blood thinners, for 6 months to let my body

> dissolve away the embolisms.

>

> My heart is being monitored constantly. The right side is working

> harder to push blood into the lungs to oxygenate it.Consequently it

> is slighly larger now. Shortly after I took out a small container of

> coconut oil and rubbed it on my dry face, the monitor warned that I

> had 18 tycardich movements or whatever they call it. That set off a

> huge alarm and everyone ran into the room to see if I was still

> alive. I wondered if the coconut oil could have made that happen?

>

> I also would like to know if coconut oil contains vitamin K? As

> Vitamin K opposes and interferes with blood thinners like coumidan.

>

> I want to be able to use coconut oil again. I have been eating it

> in food and taking 3 giant sized Tablespoons of it regularly for 10

> months.

>

> NOW..my health is compromised... not due to the coconut oil..I have

> come to depend on coconut oil for many reasons. Yet should I fear

> going back to using it?

>

> My hospital/heart doctor said I probably cannot sustain and live

> through a second pulmonary embolism..My other doctor said if I had a

> second embolism and lived, I would be on coumidan for life..

>

> Anybody out there know whether coconut oil is dangerous when taking

> coumidan? Is it dangerous to a compromised ( possibly temporarily)

> heart?

>

> Thanks for any information you might be able to contribute.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

 

I am new and know nothing yet about coconut oil. I just want to tell you how I

feel for you!

 

While you are in the hospital you could try a tiny bit of coconut oil on your

skin and see if the same response happened...unless it was too hard on you. It

may have been coincindence since it usually takes a little while for the skin to

absorb something. If you put it under your tongue, then maybe it would have

happened in an instant.

 

On the other hand, maybe you could live without the coconut oil for the 6 months

they are asking you to. You lived without it before and they are saying only

stay off until you are off the blood-thinners. Even some very otherwise healthy

foods have to be avoided while you are on blood thinners, so maybe this healthy

food will be among them.

 

I know some will tell you to get a different doctor, but, doggone it, when it is

your life in danger, that may be easier said than done.

 

Did the doctors' have any information as to why they thought you had this major

complication? Has it ever happened to people with titanium implants that they

know of? My guess is they do not know and so they are telling you not to take

anything they don't give you so the process of elimination as to cause is not

compromised.

 

Was the embolism and infarction actually related to the surgery itself? Was it

because you had be be down so much? Or has anyone hazarded an educated guess?

 

I know as a coconut oil-ignorant newbie, I have no right to answer your post. So

please, just take it as it was meant...with compassion...or delete it and forget

it!

 

(also)

From: e713521036 <e713521036@...>

Subject: Does coconut oil contain vitamin K?

Coconut Oil

Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 7:13 PM

In July I fractured my fibula and the othropedic doctor recommended

a titanium piece of metal with screws be surgically implanted.

I had the surgury July 29th. I have to be non weight bearing on my

right foot for 6 to 8 weeks. September 1st completed the 5th non

weight bearing week. I am writing from the hospital September 1st

I had a complication. . pulmonary embolism ..MASSIVE

EMBOLISM, WITH INFARCTIONS. . and involving both lungs.

The doctor will not permit me to use coconut oil.( coconut oil or

any supplements, or anti oxidents ( fish oil, cod liver oil) He does

not recommend coconut oil when I leave the hospital, as " you dont

know whether it has vitamin K in it. " And he doesnt recommend taking

any extra vitamin K..since I am now stuck taking levenox something,

and coumidan, both blood thinners, for 6 months to let my body

dissolve away the embolisms.

My heart is being monitored constantly. The right side is working

harder to push blood into the lungs to oxygenate it.Consequently it

is slighly larger now. Shortly after I took out a small container of

coconut oil and rubbed it on my dry face, the monitor warned that I

had 18 tycardich movements or whatever they call it. That set off a

huge alarm and everyone ran into the room to see if I was still

alive. I wondered if the coconut oil could have made that happen?

I also would like to know if coconut oil contains vitamin K? As

Vitamin K opposes and interferes with blood thinners like coumidan.

I want to be able to use coconut oil again. I have been eating it

in food and taking 3 giant sized Tablespoons of it regularly for 10

months.

NOW..my health is compromised. .. not due to the coconut oil..I have

come to depend on coconut oil for many reasons. Yet should I fear

going back to using it?

My hospital/heart doctor said I probably cannot sustain and live

through a second pulmonary embolism..My other doctor said if I had a

second embolism and lived, I would be on coumidan for life..

Anybody out there know whether coconut oil is dangerous when taking

coumidan? Is it dangerous to a compromised ( possibly temporarily)

heart?

Thanks for any information you might be able to contribute.