From the article: Taste Changes During Chemotherapy
Many cancer patients experience a loss of taste during chemotherapy. We want to know what worked and didn't for you during chemotherapy. Was there certain foods you avoided? What foods helped? Tell about how you have coped with losing your sense of taste because of cancer treatment. Share Your Tips
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Chemotherepy and taste problems
- I really have had a hard time eating during my 6 months of chemotherepy. It hasn't been because food is tasteless, more so it was due to the repulsive chemical taste. I found that citris drinks and apples were the only things that tasted close to the way they should. I also found some success with frosted mimi-wheats, raisin bran, clear beef broth soups (i.e. itialian wedding soup) and mushroom soup. I grew so tired of the few things mentioned that now at the end of my treatments I still don't know how I'm going to last another month until the side affects go away. I've lost 32 pounds and have been obsessed watching food channels on TV. The only extra advise I can share is drink alot of protien drinks (i.e. Ensure). They give you calories but unfortunately still leave your stomach feeling empty. Experiment, experiment, experiment and you still need to expect you will be throwing out a lot of food. Tough it out!
- —JoeA.
My beginning tips
- Bland is best for me. Bananas, egg noodles and butter, oatmeal, ice cream, milk, eggs. Though also broccoli and noodles with butter is tolerable. Cashew nuts work. A whey protein drink gets you lots of protein though they tend to be very sweet, to me. But a single cupful mixed with skim milk will get you 30 grams of protein, more than double that in Ensure. I can usually get this down. Frosties at Wendy's have over 500 calories and a fair amount of fat and protein and taste pretty good, too. Canned peaches and other sweet canned fruits work ok as does cottage cheese.
- —Guest John
Lots of Hot Peppers!
- I cooked with a lot of fresh peppers. But, be careful! You may feel the burn later. it's so good if you have stomach problems, though.
- —Guest Karen
