Question

Name three common nutritional problems that a cancer patient might experience with cancer treatments. Identify interventions for each problem.

Answer 1

ANS) The cancer treatments will leads to trouble in detecting the smell,hunger,flavor and the capability to consume sufficient food.This will leads to undernourishment,which is a situation made by absence of important nutrients.

The hormone therapy and the chemotherapy will make difficulty with consuming meal and assimilation.If excess of chemotherapy medicine is provided,every medicine will leads to contrasting aftereffects.Some of the aftereffects are loss of hunger,difficulty in emptying the bowels,loose motions,vomiting swelling in throat.

The Radiation therapy will also leads to many different kinds of nutritional issues.Nearly all the aftereffects starts 2 weeks succeeding the radiation therapy.Mostly the aftereffects will get over just after the treatment.The usual aftereffects in radiation therapy are Nausea,Problems in consuming the foods,Cannot open the mouth completely,inflammation in gingiva.

The immunotherapy will also leads to nutritional problems.Usually the aftereffects of the immunotherapy are distinct in every patients and the kind of immunotherapy medicine provided.Some of the nutritional issues are,loose motion,fever,fatigue.

The surgery of brain,small or large intestines will also make the nutritional issues and which involve the difficulty in eating the food,difficulty in mastication an loss of hunger.

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