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Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Oct 13, 2019 | Replies (11)
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Healthy Diet is beyond my reach. With extreme dry mouth & no saliva, and taste buds shot as well, I have difficulty eating most foods. Rare hamburger works. Eggs work. No chicken or Pork. Some fish OK. Sashimi is great but hard to find good Sashimi here in Florida. Allergic to nuts. Most fruit too tough to swallow.& tasteless. Carbs go down smoothly. Bread is out but soft cakes work. Ensure Max is my friend. I am 2/12 years post Chemo & Radiation for Throat Cancer.
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And try natural mouthwashes as they do not contain alcohol.
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Try making smoothies with a good protein powder (I personally like orgain unflavored) with bananas, strawberries and bluberries. Costco has a great frozen mixed berries you can buy. Aldi also sells frozen berries. Try to get all berries organic. You can add in hemp hearts, chai seeds and cocoa nibs or powder - no unnatural sugar in this! If you still eat chicken make sure it is organic - eating regular chicken that is penned or fed antibiotics is not good. Try and eliminate all pork and all shellfish - think of what they eat ... do you really want to it it? If you need other healthy juices try a carrot, celery, Granny Smith apples and lemon mix. Walnuts are really good too. There is a lot of sugar in any of those bottled protein drinks. Roasted and baked potatoes are really good too! I lived on soups and potatoes for about six months due to intense chemo and a whipple. You got this!