Huisman F, Van Elst J M, Reyners A K L, De Haan J J, Oei M, Visser O, Kramer E P A
UMC Groningen, afd. interne geneeskunde.
UMC Groningen.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2021 Dec 21;165:D5696.
Cancer therapies often cause changes in taste and smell. In this article, three patients treated with immunotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy who experience changes in taste or smell are presented. These patients report lower quality of life and altered eating habits due to these changes. The prevalence and type of taste and smell changes is diverse among different cancer treatments and individual patients. In clinical practice, diagnosis is supported by questionnaires, taste strips or smell sticks. It is important to acknowledge the changes in taste and smell and inform the patient about these changes. More tools become available to provide patients with personalized advise to adjust their meals to their new sense of taste and smell at home. Furthermore, hospital cooks are implementing new strategies to adjust meals to taste and smell alterations and individual preferences. Smell training is an option for patients with severe smell disorders.
癌症治疗常常会导致味觉和嗅觉的变化。本文介绍了三名接受免疫疗法、化疗和靶向治疗后出现味觉或嗅觉变化的患者。这些患者报告称，由于这些变化，他们的生活质量下降，饮食习惯也发生了改变。不同的癌症治疗方法以及不同个体患者中，味觉和嗅觉变化的发生率和类型各不相同。在临床实践中，可通过问卷、味觉试纸或嗅觉棒来辅助诊断。认识到味觉和嗅觉的变化并告知患者这些变化非常重要。现在有更多工具可以为患者提供个性化建议，以便他们在家中根据新的味觉和嗅觉来调整饮食。此外，医院的厨师正在实施新策略，根据味觉和嗅觉的改变以及个人喜好来调整饭菜。嗅觉训练是患有严重嗅觉障碍患者的一种选择。
