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Symptoms

Diet principle and improving Method

Loss of appetite

and Body weight

1. Have multiple meals a day with fewer amount each intake Choose food with high calories, high protein, dessert, beverage and nutrition formula.
2. Use seasoning bring out the flavor and r to increase appetite.
3. At dinner, eat solid food first, and then drink liquid or beverage.
4. While feeling tired, rest a bit and then continue eating.

Disgusting and

vomiting

1. Have multiple meals a day; avoid empty stomach or abdominal distension.
2. Drink light and ice-cold beverage. Foods with tart flavor like hot and sour soup could decrease these symptoms.
3. Eat dry foods like biscuit and toast before and after getting up,
4. Avoid sweet or greasy foods.
5. When patients suffer from severe vomit, have them take the prescriptive medicine and watch out for the supplement intake of water and electrolyte.

Thirsty

1. Try ice-cubes in the mouth, chew some chewing gums, or drink lemon juice or tea.
2. Avoid foods with too much flavor, or beverage containing alcohol.
3. Cook smooth types of foods like pudding and thick soup. Gargle frequently helps moisturize oral cavity.

1. Chemo and radioactive therapy cause changes in patients’sense of sweet and sour taste; use lemon and vinegar to strengthen their taste for sweetness. Avoid food like leaf mustard with strong bitter flavor.
2. Season meat to change the taste of it in order to prevent bitter taste caused by the intake of meat or protein rich food.

1. Choose tender and shredded food or meat like porridge, noodles, fruit juice, bean curd, fresh fish, steaming eggs, soft melons, and leafy vegetables. Mix food with soup to ease swallow difficulty.
2. Avoid stimulating food like alcoholic drinks, soda, over sour lemon or orange juice, strongly flavored with pepper and chili powder, and over-heated or coarse food.
3. Make use of straw for liquid food or liquid supplement.
4. To reduce the painful feeling triggered by food intake, ask your doctor if it is all right to use anaesthetizing mouthwash before eating.
5. When suffering from severe condition, patients could be fed via nasogastric tube for nutritional supplement.