Other nutrition recommendations:
The basic diet is a diet adapted amended to make it suitable. It is useful in patients with chewing problems or have difficulty swallowing liquids (crushed diets high nutritional value, texture modifiers, enriching the diet).
Also useful are dietary supplements: are dietary products that contain concentrated nutrients to meet the nutritional needs of patients. Are indicated when dietary advice is not enough to meet the nutritional requirements. (more…)
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Specific dietary recommendations for special situations:
Vomiting: You must reduce the intake of fats and fried foods with strong odor they produce nausea. It is also important to reduce the anxiety that does not contribute to proper digestion.
Constipation: exercise and adequate intake of fiber reduces constipation. It is recommended to consume in the form of fruit (prunes, raisins, kiwi, orange juice), whole grains, vegetables and legumes. Avoid fats and foods like quince, tea, or rice. If these measures are insufficient resort to laxatives. (more…)
Nutrition is one of the most important aspects of oncology patients, both for its impact as meaning: almost 90% of patients with advanced malignancies have a significant weight loss, and on the other hand, studies indicate that the state Nutrition is a prognostic indicator of survival. Inadequate nutrition begins even at the time of diagnosis because the psychological impact that this implies, negatively inicide food intake. In addition, some anti-tumor treatments, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, leaving many patients in an extremely unfavorable nutritional status. (more…)
The haematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been consolidated in recent years as a good alternative to traditional bone marrow transplantation. This method allows cells in the bloodstream of a compatible donor, able to repopulate the bone marrow of a patient with leukemia, more simply and without anesthesia. A study published in the journal ‘The Lancet’ after 10 years of follow clarifies some of the doubts that still could be on its use.
For hematopoietic progenitors (blood stem cells able to repopulate the marrow) ‘enough’ to refer to the donor pretreatment to multiply the presence of these units in their blood and then extracting and implanting them in a patient with leukemia or other haematological malignancies. (more…)
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he best preventive treatment of cancer, which is now accepted by cardiologists and oncologists are a vegetarian diet, in which we find: “Food that has been researched active ingredients which act as food, medicines, many for the actions of its principles as a powerful antioxidant effect that is directly linked with the best immune capacity of patients and the survival of themselves. ” (more…)
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