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Nutrition
You may face several nutritional/food challenges now.
FIRST: Your colon removes water and minerals
from the waste food materials. You will probably have significantly
looser stools - possibly diarrhea. You may also need to
account for the colon's inability to extract the same level
of minerals as before. For many people this will change
once treatment is done. But for some it can take as much
as two years or more.
TIP: Keep a log of how often you go. How loose it was. And
any foods that may be causing it to worsen. This can help
both you and your doctor find ways to manage this. And it
will give your doctor a tool for determining if it is "normal"
post colon surgery or serious diarrhea - potentially causing
problems such as dehydration.
TIP: If possible, talk with a nutritionist about this.
SECOND: Many people experience significant weight loss while
on chemotherapy. It is important that this weight loss be
controlled.
TIP: Many doctors will tell you that all nutrional concerns
are off for now. This is because chemo may make it hard
to eat. Between a loss of appetite and food often having
a metallic taste it is hard to eat enough.
TIP: Be careful about eating your favorite foods because
you don't want to ruin them with a sensory association with
chemotherapy and its side effects.
TIP: There is at least one nutrional supplement developed
to combat weight loss caused by cancer. Check out www.prosure.com
THIRD: Many foods may upset your system, causing diarrhea,
abdominal pain, and other symptoms. You may have to restrict
what you eat to simple foods.
TIP: Try the BRAT diet. Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Tapioca
TIP: Stay away from any foods with : SKINS, STEMS, STRINGS,
SEEDS After awhile you can slowly add them back in if you'd
like.
FOURTH: The American Medical Assoc. estimates that between
40% and 80% of all cancer patients suffer from some level
of malnutrition. They also estimate that it may be as high
as 40% of cancer deaths are from malnutrition not from the
cancer itself.
TIP: Eat. Whatever you can. One patient reports eating almost
nothing but peanut butter (smooth!), ice cream, and macaroni
& cheese. Just eat.
TIP: It may overwhelm you to even look at food. Try the
"tried and true" method used with little kids
- less is more. Give a kid a lot and they hardly eat a thing.
Give them a little and they ask for more. So try putting
one tablespoon of food on your plate.
Eat that. Put just 1/4 of a sandwich on your plate. Nothing
more. It may sound odd but it really works for so many people.
FIFTH: Tell your doctor about any supplements, health foods/products,
etc. that you consider trying during this time. Some are
known to interfere with the effectiveness of some chemotherapies.
TIP: St. Johns Wort is one that is known to interfere with
some chemotherapy.
TIP: Don't drink grapefruit juice. It is known to interfere
with chemotherapy.
SIXTH: :Gas may become a problem. Talk with your doctor
about it.
TIP: BEANO may help.
TIP: Stay away from foods that are known to cause lots of
gas such as:
Vegetables: Beets, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots,
Cauliflower, Corn, Cucumbers, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions, Parsley,
Peppers-sweet
Legumes: Black-eyed peas, Bog beans, Broad beans, Chickpeas,
Field beans, Lentils, Lima beans, Mung beans, Peanuts, Peas,
Pinto beans, Red kidney beans, Soybeans
Grains/Cereals/Seeds/Nuts: Barley, Breakfast cereals, Granola,
Oat bran, Oat flour, Pistachios, Rice bran, Rye, Sesame
flour, Sorghum, grain, Sunflower flour, Wheat bran, Whole
wheat flour
Others: Bagels, Baked beans, Bean salads, Chili, Lentil
soup, Pasta, Peanut butter, Soy milk, Split-pea soup, Stir-fried
vegetables, Stuffed cabbage, Tofu, Whole grain breads
(Okay....the first thought you just had after reading that
list was 'So what isn't on the list!". But some of
these will be alright for you and there's no magic test
to tell you which ones...)
LASTLY: As with anything on our website or that you find
elsewhere, please discuss all suggestions and ideas with
your medical team. Everyone's situation is different and
what may work for one person may be exactly the wrong thing
for you to try.
Reuters - Antioxidants May Help Patients After Surgery
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving vitamins C and E to critically
ill patients may lower their risk of developing some complications
after surgery but not others, according to a new study.
Researchers found that trauma patients who received these
antioxidant vitamins spent less time in the intensive care
unit following surgery and were less likely to have multiple
organ failure, which can occur weeks after surgery. They
also spent less time on a mechanical ventilator, report
researchers in a recent issue of the Annals of Surgery.
However, there were no differences in terms of pneumonia,
lung function or kidney failure.
"The lack of adverse effects, coupled with the minimal
expense, supports that this combination is a reasonable
therapeutic intervention in critically (ill) surgical patients,"
conclude Dr. Avery B. Nathens from Harborview Medical Center
in Seattle, Washington, and colleagues.
The study was funded through a grant from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories.
Free radicals that are generated by an acute injury are
thought to raise the risk of multiple organ failure among
critically ill surgical patients. Studies have shown that
patients admitted to the intensive care unit have lower
blood levels of vitamins E and C, and lower blood levels
of antioxidants have been linked with a higher risk of organ
dysfunction.
To investigate whether antioxidants--compounds that neutralize
damaging free radicals--could lower the risk of these complications,
researchers randomly assigned patients to antioxidant vitamins
or no additional treatment from the time they were admitted
to the intensive care unit. The study continued until they
left the unit or until 28 days had passed--whichever was
shorter.
About 300 patients received vitamin E through a feeding
tube and vitamin C intravenously every eight hours. Most
of the patients were admitted for trauma, although some
had serious infections.
Multiple organ failure occurred in 4% of patients overall,
and those receiving antioxidant therapy were less likely
to experience organ failure. Overall, 6% of patients not
given antioxidants developed multiple organ failure compared
with 3% of those given antioxidants.
There was no difference between the two groups in the rate
of acute kidney failure, another complication of surgery
for trauma patients.
"These data suggest the potential for benefit if antioxidants
are administered prophylactically, before the onset of significant
organ dysfunction and infection," the researchers conclude.
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