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One obstacle: loss of appetite

Often in cancer incidence that is shown early. This is because the tumor growing produce toxins, radiation and chemotherapy drugs, such as the role. The patient’s appetite can be greatly reduced, resulting in reduced food intake, and some reached only one-third of the pre-onset or less.

Countermeasures:

Shaoliangduocan should be emphasized, not limited to the number of daily meals to encourage patients to eat, when they want to eat, and eat as much as possible. If in the course of a meal or do not feel tired, after a short break to eat. As far as possible for patients to meet the food and cooking methods and the requirements of changing patterns, with particular attention to color, smell and taste, with the form. With attention to the soft and hard, with a thin stem. Can try an appetizer appropriate amount of goods (such as hawthorn, etc.) to increase appetite and so on. The increase in the amount of salt intake for some cancer patients have a certain effect to increase appetite. Before and after the meal should be relaxed and happy mood. Too sweet or greasy food will be a further reduction in appetite, should be taken to avoid.

Second obstacle: The change of taste

Causes of cancer, including increasing the role of chemotherapy, radiation damage to the taste buds and a lack of trace elements such as zinc.

Many cancer patients on the sweet and sour feeling weakened, and more sensitive to the bitter taste. Of brackish feeling varies from person to person, the greater mutation.

Countermeasures:

Can try lemon or sugar to enhance the sweet and sour, the selection of mushrooms, onions, and other unique flavor to food. As far as possible not to use or less bitter gourd, bitter mustard, and other heavy food, and based on the patient’s sense of brackish adjust the amount of salt. We have observed that the use of cold dishes and the amount of seasoning on the change of taste more attractive to patients with cancer. With this kind of food can not provide adequate nutrition, but often can improve the appetite of cancer patients, their taste in “strange” the adverse circumstances, for them to open the door of a feeding.

Three obstacles: nausea and vomiting

The main result of radiotherapy and chemotherapy cause.

Countermeasures:

In the radiotherapy or chemotherapy prior to 2 hours should not eat. To be light food and avoid greasy or too sweet, not particularly deep-fried food, fried food and cream-type food, not a large intake of drinks. Hot and cold food intake can not be at the same time, in order to avoid gastrointestinal irritation. Practice shows that the amount of sour food selection often have nausea and vomiting of cancer patients to eat to improve the situation effectively. If severe vomiting, and can be a doctor under the guidance of the use of antiemetic agent, and the attention of intravenous fluid infusion to avoid the water and electrolyte metabolism disorder.

Four obstacles: oral ulcer

The main result of radiotherapy and chemotherapy cause can also be a result of their cancer and viral infection. Patients can lead to mouth ulcers and can not chew food.

Countermeasures:

Liquid formulations of enteral nutrition, oral, or tube feeding, assisted by a small amount of fresh fruit juice in order to promote digestion. Shaoliangduocan adopt the principles of nutrition and eating the attention of agents of the “three” in order to reduce the consumption of non-tolerance response - that is, (1) temperature: Skin temperature can be similar; (2) Speed: per-oral Or feeding tube should not be more than 200 ml, the rate should not be too fast; (3) concentration: not more than 25% of the general intestinal agents may be on the configuration, the powder enteral Duishui agents and the general volume ratio of 1: 4 to 1:6.

All these more or less means the patient has changed the original dietary habits, and in the early stages of the implementation of the patients may be inconvenienced. Relatives and friends to tell their own feelings and get the help they may be conducive to overcoming these inconveniences. It is clear that the patient’s own efforts to relatives and friends and with the help and cooperation of nutrition therapy is the fundamental guarantee for continuity, warm and comfortable dining environment is conducive to enhancing the effectiveness of nutrition therapy.