Your Taste Changes Toolkit for During and After Cancer Treatment
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2014
- In this interactive video, select the taste change you are experiencing to get specific food and lifestyle tips to help you manage them. Christy Brissette, Registered Dietitian at ELLICSR Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Centre at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, provides practical information on what to do when food tastes too metallic, bitter, sweet or salty, or when food is bland or has no taste. Some people may also have a bad taste in their mouth when they are not eating. This video includes a recipe for baking soda mouthwash to help clean the mouth and get rid of bad tastes.
When food doesn't taste the same, it may make you not want to eat or lower your appetite and lead to weight loss. Losing a lot of weight can make you too weak to finish your treatment and make it more difficult for you to recover after treatment. It is important to manage taste changes so that you can do your best to eat well during and after cancer treatment. If you are experiencing taste changes, tell your healthcare team.
Summary
Remember these tips to help you manage taste changes:
- If a food doesn't taste good, try it again in a month or so
- Keep your mouth clean, especially before and after eating
--Brush your teeth and tongue
--Use rinses like flat club soda or baking soda and water
-Use your taste toolkit
--If food tastes too bitter, metallic, salty or sweet use opposite flavours
--If food tastes bland or has no flavour use strong flavours
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Great tips, thanks! Just started chemo and my brain finally unlocked that food doesn't taste bad, I just taste differently.. so now I'm on a quest to find stuff I like so I can regain lost weight while I was clueless. So far, I notice I like salty and sweet, although things are super-sweet. My favorite red meat tastes awful, and do have a metallic taste to things.
Thanks for reaching out. It's definitely going to take some experimenting to see what works best for you. Hopefully you find some of these tips helpful. Let us know if you have any questions :)
For me I have an after taste like I just got through chewing down a bunch of metal chips then most of the time it's like I have nothing but a salt lick laying on my tongue. I'm 7 treatments away from done and this weekend I looked in the mirror to find my beard was half gone on one side! My hair on my head is also falling out! I thought that wasn't going to happen because I opted out of Chemo and am only doing radiation. My big tumor on my throat is gone big time so that is very good. Just wondering if my hair on my head and face will come back well? I was told it would take 6 months for my tongue to start tasting again! Tooooo long!!
Rand- ster1 - hey Darling, how are you doing now? Is that big old beard back? Xxx
How long did it take for you for taste better? I'm going through same stuff right now
7up helps me.
club soda helps me. I have the mertal and bitter taste--from anything even a little bit acidy
My moms finished chemo 2.5 years and her taste hasn’t came back yet. Not sure what to do now to get it back
When I finally was able to eat again I found that Tomatoes and Zucchini worked well for me. With Balsamic Vinegar. I would bake them together then add very thin noodles. I still love it, with some zingy spices. Hope it helps. I too am at 2 1/2 years. My mouth is still dry mostly the way back of my tong. I brush like 5 times a day. But I'm good. Good luck and health to you.
@@kingcruze1 my moms taste buds still haven’t came back after 2 years
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Hey Eklypised I sent this note to someone else yesterday. I also am 2 1/2 years out. I am well. Eating good and really became a good cook because of all this. I use a lot of spices, can't go wrong with that. I can handle hotter stuff now that I never would eat before. I don't know if any of this will help your mom. I lost 40 lbs. doing the treatments. My mouth is still dry mainly way in the the back of my tong where you can't reach. I used to love dill pickles, Ice cream, yeah good stuff but not as much anymore. I rarely eat them now but I keep trying. I was mainly frustrated with the video because I wanted to hear from some Doctors that had to go through the same treatments and could tell us things that would help from their experience. Never did find any. I still have salt and baking soda mix rinse in both of my bathrooms and I clean and brush my mouth like five times at least a day. I also use " TheraBreath Dentist Formulated Dry Mouth Lozenges" Orange/White and Green box. Walmart and Fry's/ Krogers carry them. I use them when I wake up at night and my tong seams stuck to the roof of my mouth. My teeth and gums are very healthy. Hope this helps, good luck brother or sister and anyone else.
@@eklypised
Can dental implants do it ?
Unfortunately this is bull. I sure would like to hear from someone that is or has gone through this and found a way to regain taste faster. If I knew I would say. That goes out to all the Doctor videos I have watched for head and neck Cancers. Quit smiling with all these answers and no experience of the actual torture we are going and have gone through. I'm six weeks out from radiation and seven from chemo. I can eat now, " kind of " but taste is still not there and saliva?, it's like putting food into paste jar mashing it up and trying to suck it back out. No Bueno. Put your blow dryer in front of your mouth for Five minutes them shove some potato chips in it and see how fast your going for something to choke it down with. That is dinner time for most of us. Come on yous guys, post something that works. I'm actually in a good mood.
We are sorry to hear your frustration and appreciate you taking the time to share your comments. We often hear from our patients about their struggles and experiences after cancer treatment. Dealing with side effects such as dry mouth and taste changes from cancer treatment can be devastating especially when it seems like everything you do does not make a difference.
It is important to remember that everyone is different. For some people, side effects persist for a while after treatment has finished. For others they go away after two weeks to six months. Many of our patients express the importance of continuing to experiment while trying new tactics. The tips suggested in this video have been helpful to some and is the reason why we continue to share them.
We do encourage you to talk to your medical team in order to review options
that are suitable for your specific needs. It may also help for you to reach out to the Head and Neck Survivorship Program in your area and connect with others who are surviving head and neck cancers.
For more information you can check out some of the resources available at the Head & Neck Survivorship Program at the University Health Network www.uhn.ca/PrincessMargaret/PatientsFamilies/Clinics_Tests/Head_Neck/Pages/about_wharton_head_neck_centre.aspx
dayum.I am so sorry to hear of your diagnosis and I hope you are well. I pray you are still here to be triggered and rant on youtube, but, seriously,give these guys a break. At least they are offering options to try. Do you want her to take on Wednesday's (Addam's family) personality and linguistic affect? This is just a standard industry, professional persona and she may hate it just as much as you do.
Any updates or advice 2 years later, in retrospect?
@@TheBoomshine Hey Boom I am well. Eating good and really became a good cook because of all this. I use a lot of spices, can't go wrong with that. My mouth is still dry mainly way in the the back of my tong where you can't reach. I used to love dill pickles, Ice cream, yeah good stuff but not as much anymore. I was mainly frustrated with the video because I wanted to hear from some Doctors that had to go through the same treatments and could tell us things that would help from experience. Never did find any. I still have salt and baking soda mix rinse in both of my bathrooms and I clean and brush my mouth like five times at least a day. I also use " TheraBreath Dentist Formulated Dry Mouth Lozenges" Orange/White and Green box. Walmart and Fry's/ Krogers carry them. I use them when I wake up at night and my tong seams stuck to the roof of my mouth. My teeth and gums are very healthy. Hope this helps, good luck brother or sister and anyone else.
@@kingcruze1 Thanks for the reply. My dad's taste is damaged from chemo and it's sending him into malnutrition. Unfortunately he's not as motivated to try all those methods you listed. I appreciate you replying back however. I did come across some articles online about psilocybin mushrooms restoring some people's taste/smell. Apparently it turns off a part of the brain temporarily, allowing for the rest to make new connections, and then returns back with all the new connections. Many people were able to have their taste and smell neural connections wired back new. Just throwing it out there. Best of wishes.