Nutrition and dietary difficulties | BMT INFONET

Recovering transplant patients require 50-60% calories and twice as much protein in their diet than healthy people of similar age and gender.

High-dose chemotherapy and/or whole body irradiation (TBI) given to you prior to implantation puts severe stress on your body's organs and tissues. Increased calorie and protein intake should be necessary to repair damage to organs or tissues that may occur.

Food calories provide the fuel needed for organs and tissues to grow and function. Protein-rich foods allow the body to build and repair muscles and body tissues. Vitamins and minerals help the blood, skin and nervous system function properly.

A safe food diet

Until your immune system works well, your medical team may go on a safe food diet to reduce the risk of infection. The foods you may be told to avoid are:

• Raw or undercooked meat, eggs, or foods that may contain them
• Raw or undercooked seafood such as sushi
• Unroasted raw or shellless nuts
• Meat and cheese from the deli unless it is cooked before eating
• Ayu and Tempe products
• Unpasteurized dairy products
• Cheese from molds such as blue cheese, gorgonzola, rockfort, and stilton
• Unless soft cheeses such as feta, goat cheese, or farmer cheese are cooked
• Novarox, smoking, uncooked, refrigerated fish
• Pickled seafood
• Raw honey
• Salad bar and buffet

Transplant centers contain fresh fruits and vegetables in their food list to avoid, but allow others to be thoroughly washed.

Mouth and throat soreness

After transplant, mouth and throat pain is common. If you have mouth pain, try it.

• Not hot food, but lukewarm food
• Cook food until it's soft and tender
• Drink through a straw to bypass mouth pain
• High protein and high calorie foods such as peanut butter, pasteurized cottage cheese, and yogurt
• Liquid or blended diets or oral nutritional supplements such as Essure®, Boost®, and Carnation® instant breakfasts
• Soft foods such as mashed potatoes, cooked eggs, chicken or tuna salads, pudding, gelatin, canned fruits, cooked cereals, pasteurized eggs
• Cold foods such as milkshakes, high protein smoothies, cottage cheese, yogurt, watermelon and more
• Soft frozen foods such as popsicles, frozen yogurt, ice cream, and slash
• Instead of acidic juice, pasteurized fruit nectar and apple or grape juice

Foods to avoid:

• Tarts and acidic foods and drinks such as citrus fruits and juices, pineapple juices, and some tomato products
• Salty food
• Powerful spices such as peppers, chili powder, nutmeg, cloves
• Coarse foods such as raw vegetables, dried toast, grainy grains and breads, and crispy snacks
• Alcoholic drinks and mouthwash drugs that contain alcohol
• Very hot foods and drinks

If discomfort is preventing you from eating, ask your doctor for painkillers.

Dry the mouth

If your mouth is having difficulty drying, try the following:

• Add sauce, gravy, soup and dressing to the food.
• Smooth ice chips, popsicles, or sugar-free hard candies to moisten your mouth.
• Add citric acid foods to your diet, such as oranges, orange juice, lemons, lemonade, and sugar-free lemon drops.
• Drink liquids in your meal.
• Ask your nutritionist or doctor about the use of commercially available saliva substitutes such as Salivart®, Mouth-Kote®, and Biotene®.

Avoid eating:

• Meat without sauce
• Bread products, crackers, dry cakes
• Very hot food and drinks
• Alcoholic drinks and mouthwash drugs that contain alcohol

Changes in food preferences

Some medications can change the taste of a food for at least a while. To overcome this problem, try eating and drinking.

• Foods and drinks not hot, cold or at room temperature
• Unless you have a mouth sore, strong flavored foods like chocolate, lasagna, spaghetti, barbecue dishes
• Unless you have mouth pain either, tart or spicy food
• Liquid with meals to rinse unpleasant taste
• High protein foods that do not have strong odors such as beef or fish, and do not have strong odors such as chicken or dairy products.
• Add a richly flavored sauce to your food
• Meat with sweet things like cranberry sauce, jelly, and applesauce.
• New seasoning combinations to enhance flavor

If your food has a metallic flavor, use plastic dishes to avoid canned food or drinks.

Thick saliva

If thick saliva is preventing your diet, try the following:

• I drink it with club soda (seltzer).
• Drink some hot tea with lemon.
• Smoke sugarless sour lemon drop.
• If mucus builds up in the morning and you have a large meal in the afternoon and evening, you'll have a light breakfast.
• Rinse frequently with 1 quart of water, 1/2-3/4 teaspoon salt, 1 to 2 baking soda saline solution.
• Drink lots of liquids.
• Eat soft, tender foods such as cooked fish and chicken, eggs, noodles, thin grains, and thin consistency blender fruits and vegetables.
• Eat frequent meals
• Drink diluted juice, soup-based soup, fruit-flavored drinks
• If the problem is serious, try the liquid diet.

Avoid eating:

• Meat you need to chew
• Bread products
• Fried food
• Rich cream soup
• Thick and hot cereal
• Nectar

nausea

If nausea is impeding your ability to eat, try eating it.

• Small frequent meals
• Unless there is a pain in the mouth, especially before moving out of bed,
• Cold foods rather than hot food tend to have less odor
• Low-fat foods such as cooked vegetables, canned fruits, baked chicken, sorbet, fruit ice cream, popsicles, gelatin, pretzels, vanilla wafers, and angel food cakes
• Clear, cold liquids made from your favorite liquids, flavorful gelatin, popsicles, ice cubes
• A small amount of liquid was sipped slowly through the straw frequently all day long.

Avoid eating:

• Spicy food
• Overly sweet foods
• Foods with a strong smell
• Highly fatty foods
• Hot liquid with meals
• Drinking liquids on an empty stomach

Store food in the kitchen area and leave the kitchen if you feel uncomfortable. This can make your nausea worse, so you don't lie flat on your back after eating. If you need to rest, sit or recline your head with your head up.

Doctors can also prescribe medications to control nausea.

Loss of appetite/lack of weight loss

If you have a lack of appetite or are experiencing unplanned weight loss, try it.

• Small, frequent, high-calorie diet
• Instead of low-calorie drinks like coffee, tea, and diet soda, high-nutrition liquids such as juice and milk
• Nutritionally rich, high-calorie foods like:
  • Pasteurized cheese, whole milk, ice cream
  • egg
  • avocado
  • olive
  • Greek yogurt
  • Hummus
  • Trail Mix
  • Fruit smoothie
  • Protein powder added to food and drink
  • Dried fruit
  • Peanut Butter
  • Wheat germ
  • nuts
  • fruit
• Protein supplements such as Essosy®, Boost®, and Carnation Instant Breakfast®, provided they are approved by a nutritionist
• Adds dried milk powder to casserole and cooked grains

You can also try:

• Do some light exercise before eating to boost your appetite
• Create a pleasant mealtime atmosphere, such as setting colorful locations, different food colors and textures, soft music, etc.

Ask your doctor about oral medications that may improve your appetite.

diarrhea

If you experience diarrhea after transplantation, try eating or drinking it.

• Small amounts of food in each meal
• Extra liquid to prevent dehydration
• Liquids between meals, not food
• Potassium-rich foods and drinks such as:
  • Ripe bananas
  • Skinless potatoes
  • Gatorade®, Pedialyte®, Powerade®, and Pasteurized Peaches and Nacters
  • Grilled fish, chicken, ground beef
  • Well cooked vegetables (not beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage)
  • Canned fruit

Avoid eating:

• Blanc, whole grain cereal, bread
• Raw vegetables
• Skin and seed fruit
• Popcorn. Seeds, nuts
• Carbonated drinks
• Beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage
• Chewing gum
• Spicy food
• Foods with rich gravy and sauces
• Caffeine-containing foods and drinks, including coffee, tea, chocolate, cola and other caffeinated soft drinks
• Dairy products unless processed with Lactaid®
• Garlic supplement (fresh garlic is fine)
• Ginkgo Biloba

Do not take over-the-counter medications such as iModium® without first consulting your doctor. If you have a colon infection, these drugs can worsen the infection.

constipation

If you are experiencing constipation:

• I drink a hot drink instead of a cold drink
• Eat high-fiber foods such as
  • Well washed fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Whole wheat bread and cereal
  • Dried fruit
  • Cooked dried peas and beans

Your doctor may be able to prescribe medication if constipation lasts for more than a day or two.

Herbs, plants, supplements

You should avoid taking herbs, plants, or supplements without your doctor's approval until your immune system is fully restored. Some of these products can:

• It interferes with chemotherapy
• interact with other medications you are taking
• Insufficient cleaning of the product or additional ingredients cause severe infections
• Damage to the liver, kidneys, or other organs
• Aggravates gastrointestinal problems
• Interfers with blood clotting

Avoid taking this medicine while recovering from a transplant:

• Alfalfa
• Ballage
• Chaparal
• Chinese herbs
• Coltsfoot
• Comfrey
• DHEA
• Dieter's Tea (including Senna, Aloe, Rhubarb Root, Buckthorn, Cascara and Caster Oil)
• Ephedra or Mahuange
• Ground cell or life route
• Heliotrope or Valerian
• Kava Kava
• laetrile (apricot pit)
• Licorice root
• Lobelia
• L-tryptophan
• Matte
• Pau d'Arco
• Penny Royal
• Sassafras
• St. John's Wort
• Yohimbe and Yohimbin

If you have low platelet counts, you should avoid garlic pill supplements (it's okay to cook with regular garlic) and ginkgo biloba, which can interfere with blood clotting.

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