Knowing
your interest in herbs, a friend of yours asks what he
should do about his nephew, a 15-year-old boy with a family history
of
hypercholesterolemia who has been taking high doses of garlic. The boy
is scheduled for surgery next week to have Herrington rods placed for
scoliosis.
Question
Is
there any danger that garlic will interfere with anesthetic agents or impair
clotting?