Cancer Nutrition Q & A

1. Can solve the dry mouth and difficulty swallowing? 

  Do not have sugar and citrus or lemon-flavored chewing gum, can promote the secretion of saliva, can help dry mouth 

  Regular drinking water or water spray to the mouth, the consumption of many food moisture, high-calorie milkshake and fruit juice drinks machine processed, canned nutrition drinks and similar substitutes or additions to the broth, add sauce, come on in the food also help solve the dry mouth problem. 

  Swallowing problems: pressure can be broken up into mashed food, boiled soft, with fruit juice machine processing, or liquid in the food to make it easier to swallow. 

 eat eggs, pudding, dairy products, cheese, fruits, soft cooked vegetables and tender meat etc effective. 

 2. Can help to enhance the appetite and to reduce this disgusting? 

  Cancer treatment, the taste will change often, the temporary increase in some spices and seasonings in the food may be able to enhance the appetite. 

  Often try a different type or quantity of spices and seasonings. 

 or may try to eat more snacks 

 3. How to reduce fatigue? 

  A result of eating food and drinking enough fluids, or exercise too little, so that cancer survivors often feel tired. 

  Increase nutrition and physical activity can reduce fatigue. One day a few minutes to do the restoration of physical exercise can also first do a simple exercise such as walking, then gradually increase the time and frequency of exercise. 

 4. How to mitigate undue weight to do? 

  At an early stage of cancer treatment and recovery period will reduce the weight often, but need to avoid sustained weight reduction. Since food intake enough to reduce this problem, so having to eat more meals and snacks should contain high-calorie, fat, and protein food. 

 5. What kind of food can improve the anemia? 

  In the treatment period or after treatment often anemia, are a result of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, cancer itself, or resulting from loss of blood. 

  A balanced diet can help the body manufacture blood cells and complement 

  Eating extra iron should consult medical personnel, additional iron can improve iron deficiency, but by other causes of anemia would be invalid. And have adverse effects on the digestive system. 

 6. The use of vitamin and mineral supplements, such as you? 

  Food is the best vitamin and mineral sources, but in the disease and rehabilitation period, and perhaps not enough to eat, so necessary to add some vitamins and minerals. 

  The best selection of vitamins and minerals containing no more than 100 percent, "the daily requirements (Daily Value)" vitamins and minerals. There are some people that eat the more the better, there is no scientific basis, in fact too high doses might be harmful to eat, be sure in the selection of vitamins and minerals before, ask your health care professionals. 

 7. Pill can replace fruits and vegetables? 

 Fruits and vegetables contain hundreds of nutrients, known as general pill can replace fruits and vegetables of nutrients, in fact, it is a whole food and nutrition only a small part of it is complete should not replace fruits and vegetables. 

 8. Antioxidants should eat it? 

  Fruits and vegetables are the best natural source of antioxidants. 

  Please do not under any circumstances eat the massive amount of vitamins and minerals, including antioxidants, including. Since massive anti-oxidants can interfere with chemotherapy and radiation therapy functions, be sure to consult you before taking the medical staff. 

 9. Alternative therapies and complementary therapies safe? 

  To study the sources of information from the sales of those examples and his friends to be especially careful. 

  Please tell your health care workers, you need therapy, they can tell you that this therapy will be and traditional therapy have conflict. 

  Health foods should not be of proven efficacy, but whether useful or useless, should take the food ingredients and physicians to discuss before deciding whether or not to eat.