First, appetite

If you overeat or keep asking for food, you can try snacks and multiple meals (that is, eat small meals five or six times a day)

Eat low-calorie snacks or fruits.

You can collect food and avoid storing food in the light.

You can use other activities (such as walking) to distract your appetite.

If you eat too little, try drinking a glass of juice or eating a small amount of fruit to stimulate your appetite.

Increase the amount of exercise

Only serve one dish at a time, and then finish one item before another.

Provide meals to patients at appropriate times every day (usually at noon)

Provide patients with food they are familiar with or like.

Is the craving for sweets related to the side effects of drugs?

Serve low-calorie ice cream or milkshake.

Second, the cognitive aspect.

Brain injury makes patients feel hungry, providing different foods to stimulate appetite and encourage eating.

Reverse day and night, confuse the meal time, make a timetable, and provide meals to patients at regular intervals.

Forgetting to eat not only provides meals for patients, but also reminds patients when to eat.

Forget to eat, keep asking for food between meals, and provide patients with a small amount of food.

I forgot how to use tableware to provide convenient and relatively simple finger food, such as sandwiches and cakes.

Try to use a bigger rice bowl and simple tableware, such as using a spoon fork instead of chopsticks.

Poor judgment, no choice of food to provide a small number of meals to choose from.

Verbally remind patients to eat.

Disturbed by the messy table layout, avoid using patterned tablecloths and use plain and contrasting tableware and dishes.

Use simple table furnishings (for example, only a bowl and a set of tableware are placed on the table).

Failing to handle complicated work/tasks and simplify the meal procedure, patients can be reminded of the meal procedure orally or through demonstrations.

If you can't encourage patients to eat spontaneously, you can put a sip of food in the patient's mouth or put a fork in the patient's hand to guide patients to eat step by step.

When eating or drinking overheated things, you can't tell the degree of heat and you won't be allergic to temperature. Check the temperature of food or drink before serving it.

Touch the patient's lips with the edge of a cup or bowl to adapt to the temperature.

Eating inappropriate or non-food things. Take care of things that patients may eat (such as soap) and store them.

Third, speaking.

Wet food with gravy or sauce.

Drink some warm water, soup or juice before eating.

Tooth or oral problems can be washed with water or cleaned with cotton swabs before meals.

Have regular dental examinations.

For chewing problems, you can try to gently press your lips and chin, and add verbal instructions (such as "chew now") to demonstrate chewing.

Can provide moist small mouth food for patients.

Pay attention to the texture of food, not too hard or too rotten.

Fourth, the physical aspect.

Vision deterioration, regular eye examination.

Using brightly colored tableware can be easily distinguished from the dining table or tablecloth.

Have an appetite affected by diseases (such as diabetes, stomach trouble or urinary tract infection) for health examination and consult a doctor.

Constipation leads to loss of appetite and increases dietary fiber

Eat more fruit between meals.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) behavior aspect

Can't sit and eat for a long time, eat less and eat more because of mania.

Find out the cause of mania (such as the side effects of drugs) through medical examination.

Establish a regular meal time and eat when the patient is emotionally stable.

Store food because it is unsafe and chaotic, let the patient know that he is taking care of him, reassure him, and then check the stored food.

Loss of appetite due to depression, providing patients with favorite food to arouse their appetite.

Supplement with other foods or drinks, such as milk.

Consult a psychologist.

Environmental aspects of intransitive verbs

Be distracted by noisy environment, and eat in a quiet environment to reduce distraction. Try playing soft music.

Seven, swallowing ability.

If you cough while drinking liquid food, please consult a doctor.

If necessary, add coagulation powder.

Cough when eating solid food. Provide food that is easy to swallow (such as scrambled eggs, fruits, custard and mashed potatoes).

Consult a doctor