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Old Tue Jun 10, 2008, 08:03 PM
Ruth Cuadra Ruth Cuadra is offline
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Chocolate lowers platelets?
Birgitta,

I'm surprised that you say chocolate lowers platelets. When I was recovering from ATG and later from my BMT, my magnesium was always low and chocolate was among the foods recommended because it contains magnesium. My platelets had always been the lowest of my counts and took the longest to recover, but no one ever mentioned that chocolate might be detrimental to platelets. Do you know of any research that relates chocolate and platelets?

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Ruth
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