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Iron and HHT: Boosting Your Health & Energy with Iron-Rich Foods

Calling all foodies! Grab your apron and head to the kitchen to join Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Kat Benson for our most sizzling online education opportunity yet, as she leads you through an interactive cooking demonstration! Kat discusses the importance of iron in the body, the correlation between iron deficiency and HHT, the best dietary sources of iron, and…

Eating for Health: Dietary Choices that Impact Bleeding

Ever wonder if certain foods trigger nosebleeds? Lisa Mannik, Registered Dietitian in the division of respirology at St. Michael’s Hospital HHT Centre in Toronto, Canada, identifies common foods that can increase the bleeding risk in HHT patients. She also discusses food sources of iron and identifies dietary factors that enhance or inhibit iron absorption, as well…

Health Benefits of Geranium Essential Oil

The Essential Oil of Geranium has a lot to offer HHT patients. Geranium Oil can stop bleeding in two ways: it causes blood vessels to contract and helps stop blood flow and it speeds up coagulation or clotting of blood.

Hazardous Natural Health Products in HHT

HHT patients can bleed easily, which is why products that may thin your blood or reduce your ability to clot can be very dangerous. This handout was developed by Daniel Cortes, Pharmacist at the St. Michael’s Hospital HHT Center in Toronto, Canada, to provide a list of common natural health products that have been found…

FDA Food and Drug Interactions

What you eat and drink can affect the way your medicines work. Use this guide to alert you to possible “food-drug interactions” and to help you learn what you can do to prevent them. This guide covers interactions between some common prescription and over-the-counter medicines and food, caffeine, and alcohol. This guide should never take…

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