Rest for 30 minutes before you eat, eat slowly and sit up straight, eat small meals and snacks, eat foods that require less chewing, such as soft foods or liquids.
What are ways to prevent fatigue while you are eating?
100
Depression and Anxiety.
What emotions can decrease your appetite?
100
Eat 5-6 small meals or snacks per day.
What is a way to prevent weight loss?
100
A mineral that is found in potatoes, bananas, tomatoes, orange juice, that your body has an increased need for when using brochodilators, like Albuterol.
What is potassium?
100
A habit.
What is doing something so often, you don't even think about it?
200
Use fast, easy recipies; Have foods available that require little preparation; Ask friends or family to help you cook; Cook one or more meals at a time and freeze what you don't eat; Meals On Wheels; Mom's Meals.
What are ways to prevent being too tired to eat meals?
200
Drinking oral nutrition supplements, such as Ensure or Boost.
What are beverages which help get the nutrition you need when you have a poor appetite?
200
Eat your largest meals when you are the most hungry.
What is a way to increase weight?
200
Anti-inflammatories, such as Prednisone.
What are medications that can cause weight gain and weaken bones?
200
Mindful eating.
What is a way to control how much a person eats?
300
Using these techniques before meals will help clear your air ways.
What are coughing techniques?
300
Being too tired to make or eat a meal/snack, feeling bloated, no appetite resulting in weight loss.
What are different issues that may affect your nutrition when you have lung disease?
300
Extra margarine and butter.
What is a food that is loaded with calories and easy to sneak into food to increase weight?
300
Diuretics such as Lasix.
What are medications that make you urniate more often?