Excessively thick blood increases the risk of blood clots. In order to prevent this pathology, phlebologists prescribe anticoagulant drugs. These are drugs whose pharmacological action is to artificially slow down blood coagulation, which leads to its dilution. These drugs can not be taken on an ongoing basis, since with prolonged use they are toxic to the organs of the gastrointestinal system. In this case, patients come to the aid of a diet to thin the blood and reduce blood clots.
For which patients is this diet relevant?
Medical nutrition for blood thinning is relevant for people with the following diseases and pathologies:
- pulmonary embolism;
- coronary heart disease;
- venous insufficiency both at the initial stage of development, and in the chronic stage;
- post-thrombophlebitic syndrome that develops after surgery;
- arterial hypertension;
- atherosclerotic vascular disease;
- a stroke;
- increased platelet count in the blood;
- thrombophlebitis acute and chronic;
- phlebothrombosis (deep vein thrombosis);
- post-thrombophlebitic syndrome that develops after surgery;
- varicose veins and the patient's predisposition to such a pathology;
- obesity due to diabetes;
- transient ischemic attacks;
- various kinds of blood circulation disorders.
But the results of a blood thinning diet depend on the patient. The more meticulously and thoroughly he adheres to the rules of nutrition in everyday life, the greater the chance that he will no longer need to take medication anticoagulants.
Diet for blood thinning with varicose veins does not allow frequent violations. The maximum that the patient can afford is a slight deviation from the usual menu a couple of times a year on holidays. Even such rare violations will provoke blood clotting and an increase in the proportion of red blood cells and platelets.
A diet for blood thinning with thrombophilia, stroke, phlebothrombosis is a vital necessity. If the patient does not follow the rules of nutrition, then the seizures will be repeated again, and one of them may well be fatal.
Anticoagulant properties of products: what you can eat
Doctors have long noted the ability of certain products to thin the blood. While others, on the contrary, contribute to its thickening.
The list of products that can be eaten raw and boiled without restrictions:
- Replacing meat with fish and seafood is the best solution to prevent the development of a deficiency of amino acids and protein (the inclusion of fatty varieties in the diet: salmon, trout, pink salmon, salmon, chum salmon) will be ideal.
- A diet for blood thinning implies the mandatory use of oils: olive, flaxseed, cotton, grape seed (they can be seasoned with salads, added to porridge and soup).
- Vegetables and fruits should be included in the diet daily. Attention: not all of them are allowed! You can eat red grapes, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, citrus fruits, tomatoes, red peppers, cucumbers. However, you should not eat those vegetables and fruits in which there is a high amount of vitamin K.
- Garnish for fish and lean meat can be prepared from zucchini, carrots, eggplant. Potatoes are allowed only in boiled or baked form, after a preliminary two-hour soaking of peeled tubers in cold water.
- Bee products are allowed.
- Non-fat dairy products are allowed.
- Turkey meat and chicken are the best choice among meat products.
Diet for blood thinning with thrombosis implies the mandatory inclusion in the diet of foods rich in salicylates and iodine. These are strawberries, gooseberries, red peppers, tomatoes, garlic, dark grapes, beets, onions, raspberries, apples, prunes, currants (white, red), cranberries, cherries, citrus fruits (primarily lemons), cucumbers.
In order to make the taste of dishes unforgettable, it is necessary to use seasonings and spices. But the use of mayonnaise and ketchup to people on a diet for thinning blood with thrombosis can be forgotten. But do not be upset and think that the food will be tasteless! The following seasonings, herbs and spices are allowed for use: capsicum (red and green), garlic, apple cider vinegar, dill, horseradish, cinnamon, mint, ginger.
Features of the application of the diet for diseases of the veins
Patients should adhere to a fractional diet. Fasting is unacceptable, large gaps between meals. If at work there is no way to eat on time, you need to leave such a job. Health is above all.
Components that are vital for people with thick blood:
- amino acid taurine;
- arginine;
- iron in the most easily digestible form;
- vitamin C;
- beneficial fatty acids;
- omega 3;
- iodine;
- salicylates.
If there is no way to organize a constant intake of these substances with food, it is worth thinking about taking vitamin-mineral complexes. Many of them contain amino acids. Special nutrition for athletes contains both arginine and taurine in large doses. Amino acids in tablets will not harm the composition of the blood. On the contrary, they will contribute to the emergence of vitality, vitality, and well-being.
Diet for thinning blood during pregnancy
In the third trimester, blood density becomes a real problem. It was during this period that women most often begin to suffer from varicose veins, which remains their companion for the rest of their lives. That is why it is so important to eat right and stick to a diet menu to thin the blood.
Pregnant women should not abuse spices and seasonings, which have excellent anticoagulant properties. In rare cases, they can cause a violation of the state of placental blood flow. Such a process can provoke premature detachment of the placenta due to the deposition of blood in it.
Otherwise, pregnant women can adhere to the same dietary rules for blood thinning diets as all other patients with a similar problem.
Products that should be completely excluded from the diet
Useful and desirable foods have been listed above. They can be consumed at any time when the patient feels a sense of hunger.
Here is a list of prohibited products that you can not afford in any way:
- fatty meats: pork, duck, lard, sausages and smoked meats;
- alcoholic drinks;
- black tea, coffee;
- canned foods;
- bakery products, whether ordinary bread or cookies, sweet, puff pastries or shortcrust pastry;
- factory sweets with the addition of trans fats: cookies, chocolate and sweets, marshmallows, ice cream, cakes, pastries;
- buckwheat is prohibited, it is worth paying attention to this fact, since in the vast majority of diets it is allowed;
- white steamed rice;
- blueberries and aronia;
- dogwood, lingonberry, viburnum;
- mulberry;
- dill and parsley;
- coriander;
- basil.
A blood thinner diet is pretty harsh in terms of food restriction. But if you just get used to the new allowed set (it takes about a month), and it will not seem so meager anymore.
The importance of protein, amino acids and trace elements in the diet
For normal blood composition, sufficient intake of amino acids with food is necessary. They are interchangeable and irreplaceable. Contained in meat or dairy products. Essential amino acids are partially produced by the intestinal mucosa. In chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, their production may be impaired.
With a lack of taurine and arginine (these amino acids are most important for the composition of the blood and so that it does not thicken), you can try special dietary supplements for athletes. For example, "Animal Pak". Also, protein shakes contain a large number of a complete set of amino acids.
Deficiency will not occur if meat is present on a daily basis. Turkey, any kind of fish, chicken, even chicken and quail eggs - all these products can more than cover the body's need for amino acids. Dairy products are also useful in this regard, but it is worth remembering that cottage cheese, milk and kefir with fat content above 2.5% are undesirable.
Blood thinning diet: weekly menu
You can swap a diet by day or vary the order of dishes to your own taste.
- Breakfast: a plate of oatmeal with a spoon of honey and the addition of olive oil (salt - to taste). Snack: briquette of low-fat cottage cheese. Lunch: chicken and carrot soup puree. The second is a vegetable salad seasoned with your favorite vegetable oil. For dessert - a glass of low fat kefir with strawberries. Dinner: grilled fish, dried fruit compote.
- In the morning, eat an omelet prepared with low-fat milk, but without oil (in a non-stick pan). You can cook an omelet with tomatoes or pieces of chicken. Drink a glass of kefir or compote. Snack: a handful of nuts (not more than 50 grams). Lunch: lean borsch. On the second - soufflé from cottage cheese and sour cream of low fat content. For dinner: seafood salad, kefir and strawberry smoothie.
- For breakfast: oatmeal with honey. Snack: instead of your favorite sweets, you can gnaw on a honeycomb. For lunch: lean pilaf from wild rice with pieces of chicken or turkey, a glass of kefir. Snack: briquette of low-fat cottage cheese. Dinner: grilled fish (salmon, pink salmon, chum salmon, cod - at the discretion of the patient), dried fruit compote.
- In the morning, eat some boiled chicken eggs (if there are problems with cholesterol, then abandon the yolk). Drink a glass of kefir, and for dessert eat any permitted fruits and berries. For lunch: mashed potato, carrot and turkey soup. Snack: strawberries (in the summer, while there are a lot of fresh berries, you can freeze them and eat in the winter). For dinner: omelet from chicken or quail eggs with vegetables.
- In the morning, eat stew from cauliflower, broccoli, carrots. For satiety, you can break a couple of eggs into stew, you will get vegetable eggs. For lunch: diet soup from potatoes, carrots, broccoli, turkey poults. For dinner: seafood salad, kefir and strawberry smoothie.
- For breakfast: green tea with bee honeycombs and honey. For lunch: lean pilaf from wild rice with pieces of chicken or turkey, a glass of kefir. Snack: cottage cheese souffle with berries and low-fat sour cream.
- In the morning, eat boiled eggs. You can make a salad with squid and cauliflower. For lunch: lean borsch, the second - vegetable stew with slices of turkey. Dinner: grilled fish.
This is an exemplary blood thinning diet menu. Folk remedies that are often used in parallel with it:
- ginger is famous for its properties for blood formation, you can add it as a spice to all dishes;
- juice from dandelion leaves can prevent the formation of blood clots, so chopped leaves can be added to salads;
- raw celery, as well as its juice, is an excellent blood thinner; celery juice can be drunk on an empty stomach.
Turkey Puree Soup Recipe
Not everyone loves such liquid soups of uniform consistency. But they are ideal for people with a tendency to thrombosis, with a sick liver and pancreas. This is a popular blood thinning diet recipe that will replace your first meal during lunch.
You will need the ingredients:
- a broth in which two turkey legs were boiled;
- remove meat from boiled legs;
- a pair of potatoes boiled in the broth until cooked;
- medium-sized carrots, pre-boiled;
- salt, garlic and ginger to taste.
Grind all ingredients to a homogeneous consistency of mashed potatoes using a submersible blender or food processor. Puree soup is delicious only immediately after cooking. When reheated, it loses its taste.
Recipes for healthy and delicious desserts
Every person from time to time wants to please himself with a dessert or a sweet dish. Reviews of the blood thinning diet confirm that patients quite successfully do this by inventing unusual sweets from the allowed foods.
For example, bee honeycombs replace the usual lollipops and sweets. Honey has an excellent anti-inflammatory effect. It is not only sweet and tasty, but also healthy. You can eat honey separately, or you can mix it with berries or pumpkin seeds.
An unusual, light and healthy dessert is a berry smoothie. Here are the ingredients you need to make it:
- low fat kefir - 200 ml;
- ripe strawberries - 100 grams;
- a pinch of ginger.
You can replace strawberries with any other permitted berry or fruit from the list above. Place all components in a blender and bring to a homogeneous consistency. It will turn out to be a sweet, thick cocktail that perfectly refreshes and satisfies the feeling of hunger.
Another delicious dessert is an baked apple with cinnamon. You should choose a large apple and cut it in half, cut the core. Some patients prefer red varieties of fruit, while others like sour green varieties. Sprinkle the apple slice with sugar and cinnamon, place in the oven or in the microwave, bake for five to ten minutes. From time to time, control the dish so that the apple does not burn. It turns out a fragrant, sweet and soft dessert, somewhat reminiscent of apple jam.
Seafood Salad Recipe
This recipe for a simple, but refined and healthy salad will delight patients at the festive table. They will not feel deprived due to the fact that they can’t eat mayonnaise salads, which are standard for the festive table, which our compatriots love so much.
For the preparation of seafood salad, which can be used with a diet to thin the blood, you will need the following ingredients:
- boiled squids - 3-4 pieces;
- small or large shrimps, previously boiled in salted water - 400 grams;
- cherry tomatoes - 200 grams;
- mussels - 200 grams;
- olive oil - 3 tablespoons.
Peel all ingredients from films and shells. Cut squids into thin rings. Shrimps and mussels do not need to be cut. Add olive oil, mix thoroughly, add a pinch of red pepper. If desired, you can sprinkle the salad with balsamic or apple cider vinegar.