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Nutritional needs for the bone marrow transplant patient
Posted Jun 18th 2007 7:24AM by Brian White
Filed under: Blood Cancer, Cancer prevention foods
Certain diseases and ailments, when treated, can cause a long and often painful recovery as the body works its way back to normalcy and everyday functioning. There are fewer recovery periods where nutrition is as important as after a major transplant.
After all, nutrition gives the body fuel and allows for the tools to make the body function as normally as it should, although the "nutrition toolbox" these days can be severely lacking in many normal citizens -- along with patients undergoing care.
Bone marrow transplants are commonly being used today for the treatment of blood cancers and other maladies, and as the body regenerates its immune system after the process, nutritional needs are more important than ever. What are these needs, you may ask? Head over
to The Diet Channel and find out.
Tags: bone marrow transplant, BoneMarrowTransplant, nutrition, transplant nutrition, TransplantNutrition
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