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- Several medicinal herbs, like bee propolis and fennel seeds, can cause coagulopathy and are easily accessible without professional guidance.
- Patients often don't disclose their use of these herbs to healthcare providers, even when asked directly.
- The combined use of these herbs before surgery led to excessive bleeding in a patient, highlighting the need for awareness of their risks among both patients and physicians.
Article Abstract
Several medicinal herbs have been associated with coagulopathy. They can be readily purchased at a local herb store without prescription or expert opinion based on scientific evidence. This is probably why patients do not disclose using these herbs to health care providers even on direct questioning. Here, we focus on two commonly used herbs in our community, bee propolis, and , also known as fennel seeds, as our patient ingested them before a scheduled browplasty. The significance of this anecdote is the concomitant ingestion of fennel seeds and bee propolis. Arguably, their consumption resulted in excessive intraoperative and postoperative bleeding in a previously healthy subject. This complication is undesirable in any aesthetic surgery, as it affects wound healing and the final cosmetic outcome. We hope that such bioactive herbs are warned against and that their risks are known to patients and physicians alike.
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