not allowed garlic?

by izzie37 18th June 2010, 6:19 pm

Hi ive been told i cant have any garlic 2 weeks before my ba as well as no mushrooms or chilli and curry, this is fine but does it mean actual garlic? or any food which has garlic as an ingredient? this is very confusing, as i went shopping today and nearly everything has garlic in it!! so im going to have to live on beans on toast and bacon sarnies for a couple of weeks haha!!
Cant have any painkillers either?

does anyone know anything about this?

One more thing has anyone ever had their surgery date moved? mine has been put forward a day, which is really stressful as i had arranged everything for the saturday, and now i have to go to work on the friday, rush to the hospital and check in with my op being an hour later..this is NOT quite what i had expected my ba day to be like.. not allowed garlic? 856466

by alfie 18th June 2010, 6:26 pm

Hiya Izzie, garlic thins your blood hun. I've never heard of people not being able to eat currys etc, I thought you just couldn't take garlic suppliments.

Don't let the fact your date has been moved spoil things for you hun. Just enjoy your day.

xx

by faye 18th June 2010, 7:28 pm

I was told the same as you. No garlic, curry, mushrooms etc and no ibuprofen or aspirin

x

by hattie260 18th June 2010, 8:38 pm

i wasn't told any of this but i did know about the garlic thing - all i did was avoid things that obviously contained a lot of garlic such as spag bol, currys etc. but i still ate everything else - i never went out of my way to check packets or anything i just avoided the obviously garlicky things. x

by jodie1204 17th June 2012, 11:22 am

hi girls

im so glad i checked it on here, was told not to have any garlic or alcohol 48hrs before ba. didnt even think to question why not (obv not the alcohol part lol) and then checked it on here. so thanks Alfie, feel bit daft now that i didnt no about garlic thinning your blood. lol xx

by bouncyDD 17th June 2012, 11:27 am

Wow, i didnt know that about Garlic, that shocked me.
But whats wrong with eating mushrooms?
xxx

by roxanne 17th June 2012, 12:25 pm

Garlic and certain other spices are blood thinners. The only advice my PS gave me was to avoid ibuprofen two weeks before. Therefore I made the choice to carry on eating garlic, chillies and spices, especially since garlic is good for your immune system. I think this is over the top for most people, and you'd have to consume a lot, I'd personally avoid high dose garlic supplements for instance. Having said that, you have to go with surgeon's recommendation, not pcc or nurse, but your own surgeon since he/she is the one performing the surgery, and you're paying for his/her service. Still absurd when you think most parts of the world eat a more varied diet in spices, and undergo surgery too (says person of Italian origin who loves garlic, and roles her eyes Rolling Eyes

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by misf1 17th June 2012, 9:42 pm

I did the going without garlic, and ibruprofaen etc i hate mushrooms so wouldnt have noticed if they said it. I cut out all garlic from my diet, it was really hard as I love it so much. But I was determined to follow the rules as much as possible.

by letfreedomsing 17th June 2012, 10:06 pm

I didn't know any of this but Ive been taking paracetamol for the past few days, had garlic bread today, mushrooms on a pizza last night, garlic mushrooms a few days ago and noodles from wagamama that had mushrooms and garlic in LOL

by roxanne 17th June 2012, 10:41 pm

letfreedomsing wrote:I didn't know any of this but Ive been taking paracetamol for the past few days, had garlic bread today, mushrooms on a pizza last night, garlic mushrooms a few days ago and noodles from wagamama that had mushrooms and garlic in LOL

Paracetemol is fine, and so long as your PS hasn't told you to stay away from certain foods, don't worry. I wasn't advised to avoid any foods, and ate garlic pretty much everyday leading up to surgery xxx

by letfreedomsing 18th June 2012, 4:42 am

I didn't realise I ate it do often haha! Surprised I don't stink all the time... Maybe I do shrug

by NurseSophie89 19th June 2012, 1:18 am

I wasnt told about the garlic, but i do know its a natural blood thinner. Id be starving without it, its in almost all i eat haha x

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