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shamaria
Nutritional information for friend with stage 3b lung cancer?
My friend was diagnosed with stage 3b lung cancer. The Doctors are in the process of determining what treatment would work best, this treatment should start in 2 weeks. I wanted to know if there are specific foods that can keep her strong prior to starting treatment, and then for recovery. Thx!
Here's one - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider
jayffarr
Your friend will be seen by a Dietician.
She will advise, a healthy diet, and a choice of foods she can eat.
If your friend is receiving, radiotherapy, there should not be much of change in her tastes for food.
If she is recieving, Chemotherapy, depending on what drug they are using, she will need a good list of foods to eat, as her taste will change.
She will probally not even feel like eating. Support her through this ordeal.
Having her close friends around is the best medicine.
Notyour B
An oncologist ususally wont suggest a diet. There is a good reason for this: what he want is that the person EATS. That's because most people on chemo lose a lot of weight, and it weakens them.
From what I've seen in two cases of chemo (one little girl for retinoblastoma and my best friend with ovarian cancer), what you have to be careful about is to give your body enough iron, since chemo is very harsh on RBC. The best way to get easily digestible iron is... meat. If your friend is a vegetarian, advise him to start having meat at least for the duration of chemo. This will avoid the need for iron supplements, which could worsen the constipation brought on by chemo.
Apart from this, an overall healthy diet, including the foods he likes, is indicated. No fasts, 'detox' or 'cleansings' are advisable. Those will weaken him when he needs all his strenght. Also avoid unprescribed supplements. Most are simply inefficient, but some contain compounds that can clash with chemo, make it less efficient, and some even contain pathogenic bacteria which are EXCESSIVELY dangerous to a chemo patient. With a good diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables, you get everything your body needs.
fatdadslim
unfortunately i cannot give you much encouragement,no specific foods,just a healthy diet,with whatever she likes to eat
gorbalizer
The Absolute best thing they can do is a major diet and lifestyle change avoid cancer sticks (cigarettes and all forms of tobacco) avoid aspertame and all the nitrates drink lots of water plain take your body weight divide by1/2 and drink that many ounces of water every day and get plenty of fresh fruit and veges every day watch alchhol consumption things like that will help a lot
mevlana
If she does chemo, then she needs to stay ahead of the nausea with the anti-nausea pills, once the nausea takes hold she will not even want to look at a pill.Immodium is good to have on hand for diarrhea from chemo.
When I was on chemo, I drank chilled bottled water, saltine crackers and lots of bland high protein foods, such as cold hard boiled eggs, and Arby's or Rax plain roast beef sandwiches.Protein will help keep your blood work up so the chemo stays on track and finishes on time. And sometimes maybe take a multiple vitamin with minerals. (Ask the doctor if all this is okay with him to do.) Say a lot of prayers too. I will say one for her.
momto2kiddos
Hi there,
We are going through this same thing right now with Mesothelioma. I highly recommend the book 'Beating Cancer with Nutrition" by Patrick Quillin. My dad started chemo and despite his onc. not agreing we decided to pursue nutritional support on top of the chemo. Even if it is only for the quality of life it is well worth it.
There are also many products/therapies out there worthy of research, eg. Ukrain, detoxification, oxygen therapy, etc
Also - for nutrition the easiest thing that your friend can start right away is juicing....raw vegetables....they have the highest levels of vitamins in the most natural ways. Juice every morning and mix with a little protein. Stay away from all non-essential fats and all sugars. Start detoxing as much as possible. A one day/week lemon/maple syrup/cayenne fast with a laxative tea or sea salt laxative work wonders in this area. (see here -> <>http://www.falconblanco.com/health/cleansing/lemoncleanse.htm> and here -> <>http://www.detox.net.au/articles/cayenne-maple-lemon-cleanse.htm>
Also, most important is the decision whether to undergo chemo/radio treatment or bypass altogether. My dad deteriorates on the second or third day after chemo and gets progressively worse from there - yet we go for an IV treatment (hoping the onc. is not reading this) and he has much more energy levels and appetite the following day.
Eating is probably the most important thing (nutritious eating) while undergoing treatment, sadly the treatment takes the appetite away. You have to force yourself to eat. Next in importance is supplementation - have him visit an alternative doc and do testing for body imbalances and micro, macronutrients --- go along with the supplements (my dad adds these in the morning to his juice and then just swallows the night pills).
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