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DiscussionWhich foods should be avoided during proton treatment
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Hi @vircet - I finished my 28th treatment on Friday, May 16. My GI track was a little sensitive the next few days (diarrhea) so I stayed on my treatment diet. The next Tuesday, 4 days after the end, it was quite a bit better. Wednesday I was leaving on a short trip and was very hesitant to be on a plane for 5 hours, but all was well. I was still cautious the next couple days, but by Friday I was eating my full pre-treatment diet with no issues.
Hey vircet, If you look at those recs. They include precautions for foods eaten for oral/throat cancer as well.
As with most AI responses, these are all snippets culled from thousands of sources and condensed into a simple universal format that can pertain to any type of cancer radiation.
You can certainly go back to your usual diet after SBRT - IF you are asymptomatic for diarrhea, gas, etc. If not it would be wise to follow a bland diet until your symptoms subside, as you would with any GI disturbance.
I clearly remember my PA at Sloan telling me after my last session that I could go back to my regular diet but ‘don’t go out tonight and eat a whole pizza’! …So I only ate half😁