Nausea: Helping Your Parent Keep Up His Appetite

What to expect and what you can do

By Melanie Haiken, Caring.com senior editor

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ID:

3465

First Published:

09-Sep-2007

Last updated on

Sunday September 09, 2007

Related Topics:

loss of appetite , cancer care giving , stage 2 cancer , food and nutrition , cancer treatment , stage 1 cancer , managing care , stage 3 cancer , stage 4 cancer , cancer , chemotherapy , cancer treatment side effects

Summary:

An action plan for helping your parent with cancer boost his appetite so he can get the nutrition he needs.

2 Comments

1. Posted by Anonymous 5 months ago

   The only thing my father loves to eat /drink is seedless red grapes from local fruit stand or chocalate malts from Beefaroo. We have several dr. appts. so we let him pick his favorite place to eat and let him decide what he will eat. Its always the malts. I think he enjoys being around people that do not appear sick like the people at the dr. office.

2. Posted by Melanie Haiken 6 months ago

   Does anyone have any idea for foods to feed your parent when they say they just can't eat anything? I have a friend right now going through chemo for breast cancer and she just can't keep anything down. I even tried smoothies and she couldn't drink them. Please, any suggestions?