Life Care for Cancer Chemotherapy Patients No. 18: Loss of Appetite

  1.Patients feel inconvenienced by “loss of appetite after chemotherapy” “change of taste, no appetite” “sensitivity to the taste of food, unable to swallow” and other situations.  2.Cause Loss of appetite can be caused by chemotherapy or radiotherapy, among which the cases caused by chemotherapy are more frequent.  Causes such as nausea, changes in taste or smell, and psychological changes interact with each other to eventually lead to loss of appetite.  Loss of appetite can start about 2 days after chemotherapy and last up to 2 weeks.  3.Living care 1).Control nausea and vomiting.  When you feel nauseous, you can take anti-emetic medicine before meal.  2).Find a taste and temperature that suits you.  You can choose light, sour, cool, strong taste and other foods that can promote appetite.  3).Brainstorming on plate loading.  If you serve too much, you may lose your appetite just by looking at it.  Each plate to hold less, more variety, can stimulate appetite.  4), choose the right time to eat.  At the time you like, choose the food you love to eat.  5).Try to make proper use of nutritional supplements.  A small amount but a lot of nutritional supplements also have some effect, such as compressed jelly drinks, frozen, liquid nutrients, etc. are a rich variety of smooth and delicious food.