Is not only the treatment of people with cancer patients also need adequate nutrition. Nutrition is important to increase the immune system of the body, therapy, and prevent cancer has returned. Appetite loss and psychological pressure no doubt make people with cancer loss of appetite. Though thus people with cancer or those who are in the process of the election thus need enough nutrition intake. Because there is enough nutrition will make the healing process go quickly.
Ideally, the patients still need regulate diet all of which contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals.
For patients with breast cancer for example, in patients who were undergoing therapy, the good operation of chemotherapy or radiation, good nutrition intake will be able to maintain nutritional status. So the patients can live his therapy.
Cancer patients who were undergoing the therapy usually will experience changes in appetite, nausea, vomiting due to the side effects of the therapy is running.
The condition also occurs because of the emotional instability until the depression that resulted in the disruption of nutritional status from mild to heavy. In addition because of cancer treatment generally, will reduce the appetite. On the condition that weight or often called as kaheksia will happen negative protein balance, which causes the durability of the patients quality of life will decline. Besides this, usually, patients will experience lipolysis (troubleshooting fat) and loss of muscle mass that will aggravate the condition of the patient.
Whereas, thus they need enough nutrition. Now when the appetite is bad continued and culminated in the malnutrition, of course, this will aggravate the condition of patients with cancer.
People with cancer with malnutrition also have the risk of having the infection after the operation of the higher compared with those who serves as a good nutrition. Malnourished Children accompanied with the decrease of body weight will affect, can even aggravate the results of the treatment of cancer patients.
Therefore, to prevent this good nutrition support required to maintain nutritional status, prevent weight loss and minimize complications. Patients should be given according to the needs of the nutrition therapy and run and adjusted with the patient's condition.
Nutritional needs of cancer patients are very individual and depend on how severe that suffered and as what the patient's condition. There are patients who need more nutrition, there is also a little. But generally, the needs of calories recommended is 25-35 kcal/kg body weight daily intake with protein 1-2 grams/kg of body weight per day.
In principle, food with other people. Balanced protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The presentation of food for people with cancer should be able to raise the appetite. As food can be given herbs more with attention to balanced nutrition. The food is given a few, but often.
The balance of the nutrition consumed must be preferred, especially for women. Because physiologically women suffer menstruation, pregnancy, lactation also experienced menopause so that requires an optimal nutrition. Supporting therapy with eating setting this is a very important point that the patients can maintain body weight.
The main purpose of nutrition therapy is to improve the deficiency of nutrients that is required so that the body weight can be maintained and treatment can run smoothly. Supplemental therapy is proven to help control the symptoms and improve the quality of life for patients with cancer. It is intended to the time of the restoration is even more quickly. No additional therapy can be given to all people with cancer because it depends on the type of cancer was.
Cancer patients need vegetable protein and fats and fibrous food for the body. Healthy food effectively can affect the condition of cancer patients.
