To control the disease and improve the life expectancy of patients, chemotherapy is the most reliable cancer therapies, as well as surgery and radiotherapy.
Chemotherapy is a medical treatment using anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells systemically so that cancer cells do not divide and spread.
Although the purpose of the therapy is postifi, but chemotherapy can cause negative side effects, even if only temporarily. Among others, hair loss, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, until the immune system. That's because chemotherapy also kills healthy cells in addition to cancer cells.
A healthy diet is very influential to help boost the immune system so that patients can achieve the desired therapeutic target. Poor nutrition will lead to malnutrition and increase the toxicity of therapy.
Cancer patients need enough energy derived from carbohydrates and high in protein. Although the appetite may be reduced during the process of therapy, patients are advised to eat foods in small amounts but often.
Patients who experience decreased immunity should also be careful not to consume dairy products are sterilized, raw fish and meat, as well as foods that are not cooked.
Nutrition awake
In a study conducted Zubaidah Irawati, principal investigator of the Center for Isotope and Radiation Technology Applications (PATIR) BATAN, processed fast food proved sterile with complete nutrient can be given to patients with low immunity such as patients with cancer, HIV or hepatitis C.
"Different types of processed foods ready meals based on traditional recipes are sterilized by irradiation can be prepared to taste those without ignoring the nutritional adequacy rate, so that patients will be more flexible and comfortable in choosing menus," he wrote in a research paper that has been published.
Irradiation is a method of food preservation that does not destroy vitamins, carbohydrates, fats, protein, and flavor of the food. Irradiation performed by irradiating food products with gamma rays.
The type of material that can be sterilized food is very diverse, ranging from spiced carp, anchovy, beef stew, beef rendang, chicken baked or processed yellow dibumbu. High protein side dish was irradiated with a dose of 45 kGy (kilogrey, the unit of radiation dose).
Described by Zubaidah, the use of 45 kGy dose intended to kill all pathogens in foods. "There are bacteria that can stand and die with the new radiation above 40 kGy," he said when contacted by Kompas.com.
Irradiation technique has been widely used in many countries and applied in a variety of food products, ranging from fish, meat, various spices, fruits, vegetables, until the spices. With the technique above 40 kGy irradiation, food can stand at room temperature up to 1.5 years.
Zubaidah conducted a study of 45 patients who were divided into 3 groups. The first group of patients with hepatitis C as a control group who ate a normal diet. The second group are patients given fast food nonradiasi PATIR products and the third group were patients who received sterile fast food irradiation PATIR products.
After 21 days, patients know of the third group is experiencing some positive indications, such as measured values of albumin, SGOT and SGPT, and lymphocytes were compared before and after eating.
Adequacy of protein in patients with low immunity is important because protein is the building substance that is used by the immune system to prevent and fight infection.
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