The taste and smell of cancer patients may be due to chemotherapy, adding to the food is not good taste. Currently in pursuit ziekenhuischefs in the project, the Chefs against Cancer and hope to thousands of patients, providing advice on the menu. What causes change in people’s tastes, and what is the purpose of the cook is actually doing it?
a 55 percent to 75 percent of cancer patients who received chemotherapy either to follow or to have followed the experience of change in people’s tastes, says the Kelly Silverio Alonso Dune, dietician, specialist in oncology at the Cancer Center Amsterdam and UNIVERSITY medical center. “They hold up a sign of a different, or stronger taste, or lose their flavor at all. Also, the food is of card stock like you can a metallic taste in the mouth may occur.”
in particular, chemotherapy causes change in people’s tastes. Radiation therapy to the throat and nose, you can have the same effect. Also, patients with cancer, prior to the start of the treatment, all of the brands that such as coffee or meat to them to do.
The condition of the patient and the chemotherapy, and the change in people’s tastes can result in less loss of appetite, and malnutrition will result. “It is very dangerous for a cancer patient. It is also a major cause of death. The chemotherapy agent saves less if the patient is undernourished, it is.”
Chefs are special training, < / p> Each and every hospital has dietitians, where the patients ‘ individual diet and need to be. Also, there are sometimes smaakgestuurd ” cooked up by the ziekenhuischefs, who is usually trained at the Center for Gastrology in and around the Belgian town of Leuven. Meals can be of additional sour, and more spicy, something made to allow the patient to have some taste of the meal more tasty it is.
“there’s no one smaakgestuurd food for a cancer patient can afford them.”
Bart Geurden, principal investigator’s (pi’s Chefs against Cancer < / p> At the Center for Gastrology is the D-box has been developed. “This box contains bottles of the concentrated version of the five-basissmaken, which is needed for the patients to be able to taste it,” says Bart Geurden, is connected to the city centre. “This is what the patient is looking for. On the basis of menus and recipes compiled in.”
The change in people’s tastes may occur, among others due to the chemotherapy, but it remains elusive. (Source: Reuters)
Thousands of patients to get the box < / p> In a recent project for the Chefs against Cancer, will be the speakers at a large scale, is used. “We want to make this a total of one thousand patients in the Netherlands and Belgium, are going to help,” says Geurden, who is also a senior researcher at the Chefs against Cancer. “If it is the box seems to work well, it could be that they are everywhere in hospitals, and recreation centers are going to be using.”
this is Important, because, according to Silverio Alonso Dune at the moment there is not enough assistance for patients, who are at home during the chemotherapy treatment. “For the most part is throw in the towel. They are often too tired to cook, or don’t know how they’re going to be cooking. Also, for the people, the situation can be very frustrating.”
There are, however, any advice, websites and recipes, but they have to be simple and clear, find a dietitian. “But it’s hard to make something generic is to recommend to the patient. The change in people’s tastes is extraordinary. It may appear to go away, or change it. Also, it’s kind of chemotherapy doesn’t say anything about the actual change in people’s tastes.”
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the Chefs at Cancer treatment just want to be the test for the boxes with a smaakplan out, called ” Let’s Beat the Taste Alteration in Cancer.
with A promising title, but it Geurden is expected that further testing would be required. “A comprehensive plan will provide much more data is needed on tens of thousands of patients. Then you might be able to see similarities in the changes in taste.”
Silverio Alonso Dune, it is curious to see the results from the Cooks to the fight against Cancer. “There may be all of the trends to be seen, but it seems to me to be more than difficult.”
The council will always be a person’s continue to be differences, ” says Geurden. “Because taste is personal. You will never be one of smaakgestuurd food for a cancer patient and can be purchased at the hotel.”
