Cancer patient sense of taste change and processing

When the patient accepts chemistry or projects a treatment, often bring many merger diseases, opposite will influence the patient's quality of life, particularly the treatment of cancer is all very aggressive currently, also very have curative effect, but also therefore bring some side effect.Clinical ascend familiar merger the disease include disgusted, vomit, the mouth cavity glue a film to blaze and the marrow repress etc., study inquisition to discover a sense of taste change occurrence the probability is very high, about 36 the －s be 71%s, but is often neglect.Perhaps the sense of taste change and will not directly threaten the patient's life, but actually take the patient's appetite, nourishment, the maintenance of weight contain equal influence, even will influence family interaction and personal activity of social intercourse and have very great influence to the patient's body, heart, social intercourse and innate intelligence etc..



The sense of taste change includes the decrease of sense of taste, disappear or the obstacle of sense of taste, sense of taste occurrence obstacle, will seriously influence appetite and digest, even influence living fun.The Chinese take food as a day, treat food as a kind of life to enjoy, cancer the patient's family members think that the patient accepts the nourishment that the treatment needs special complement, then can increase a bodily resistibility, but cancer patient often because of sense of taste change but influence appetite, so sense of taste the change often results in the pressure of patient and family members.



The creation of sense of taste has to normally accept a body(taste), appropriate saliva and the sense of smell the conduction nerve of function and integrity.The basic sense of taste include sour, sweet, bitter and salty, but each other combine and can constitute various other sense of tastes mutually, the taste is responsible for delivering sense of taste, distribute bow at the tongue, soft jaw, tongue jaw and swallow at the back of the department, its sense of taste cell accept in the food fuse of chemistry composition stimulate, again Be excited this to conduct to the brain skin quality by the 5, 7, 9 and 10th brains nerve, judge impulse source from here is what flavor of food, so if have brain pathological changes or nerve to conduct etc. aspect obstacle and then will influence sense of taste.Stimulate the sense of taste organ will increase secrete of saliva and Yi liquid and help stomach constringency and bowel to wriggle, so when sense of taste occurrence obstacle, will also influence to digest a function.Whether food is tasty or not is decided by the density of chemistry hormone, and color, flavor density and quality of food, pass by to felling, hobby and environment factor of food.



Impact factor of sense of taste change



(A)Oneself disease:Cancer patient the sense of taste change may relate to the growth part of tumor, for example lung cancer the sufferer raise the sour Yu value;The larynx cancer will go up to four kinds of sour, sweet, bitter and salty sense of taste Yu values.



(Two)The chemistry cure:The chemistry treatment is a cancer patient one of the main reasons of the sense of taste change.



(Three)Project a treatment:Project the line treatment will result in taste cell of the tiny floss be damaged or secrete of decrease saliva or thirsty, be the treatment amount of to arrive a 2000 cGies, the sense of taste will gradually be subjected to influence, and influence time very long, even will not recover.



(Four)Medicine:Antibiotics, analgesic, bonefos, decline a blood pressure medicine, bronchus to extend flabby melancholy medicine etc. of the , anti- epilepsy medicine, anti- of the , muscle all will influence the patient's sense of taste situation.



(Five)Age:The general old people often discover that the sensitive degree of sense of taste lower.



(Six)Other factors:The mouth cavity glues a film burning, disgusted, vomit, the environment factor will also influence the change of sense of taste.



The food principle of sense of taste change



(A)The thirsty will make the food change in the sense of taste in the mouth cavity, so the too dry food will cause the sense of taste change, can make use of meat gravy, soup juice, or seasoning to wrap to add alimental degree of humidity.Eat vegetable more with cook of thick soup, can drink water more with two dining rooms while have meal.



(Two)If the mouth cavity glue a film integrity to have no damaged, can drink some acidity juice or beverage, chew food chewing gum or suck up hard sugar, icy pole, Be all contribute to stimulating saliva to secrete.



(Three)Gargle first before have meal, can increase mouth cavity moist and the strange smell in the decrease mouth cavity.Sweep, moist mouth cavity, can increase the fresh and delicious way of food.



(Four)The cancer patient's sensitive to the bitter taste degree increment, should avoid eating food of have the bitter taste for example bitter gourd, green river's vegetables, mustard plant, can cause because of the bitter taste by decrease by capsule or glutinous rice paper packing while take medicine of vomit.



(Five)The patient dies down the sweet and sour sensitive degree, past can adopt sugar or lemon more to strengthen sweet and acerbity, may also try to add various dressing, lemon, salad or wine, with increment food of the taste try different food.



(Six)The construction has meal atmosphere to give an appetite.For example the subtle fragrance of the flavor environment of food to stimulate sense of smell, broadcast the patient like of the easy music increment sense of hearing enjoy, fine cutlery, grace of take a meal the variety of environment and food to take a meal under the comfortable atmosphere by attaining a patient by stimulating sense of vision.



(Seven)If the patient accept a certain contain the chemistry medicine of platinum, take a meal to often feel to contain metals in the food, should use nonmetal cooking pot or cutlery at this time, if there is metals flavor in the feeling mouth cavity, can fill with some lemon juice or eat tiny and sour fructose.



(Eight)The food once refrigerated or once kept in deep freeze, the sense of taste of sometimes ameliorable patient.



(Nine)Can make use of the protein food of some less gamey smells source, like chicken, bean curd, egg...etc..



The sense of taste change is also unlikely to threaten a patient life of, so is often neglect by the person, although the patient doesn't put forward the quality of life which complains but usually influences a patient toward the medical personnel, currently have no medicine can improve this kind of symptom, the above small special prescription might as well try and see, perhaps can ease the patient's harassment.