The treatment of fatigue symptom and nutrition in palliative nursing care

Authors

  • Denis Mlakar-Mastnak

Abstract

In palliative nursing care and treatment of the cancer patient nutrition is the factor which has an important impact on the quality of the patient’a life and treatment outcome. Nutrition and nutrition status of patients with progressive cancer are affected by several negative symptoms, among them also fatigue. Chronic fatigue is the most common symptom reported by cancer patients and is characteristic for the patients with advanced forms of cancer. The reasons of fatigue are not easily discovered, because they can stem from physiological as well as psychological states. There is a direct connection between fatigue and nutritional problems. Fatigue is often the result of not satisfied energy needs of the patient’s organism. On the other hand, fatigue itself can also be the cause of unsatisfactory nutrition is patients which in turn leads to deffective nutritional status which again results in fatigue. The patient is caught in a vicious circle of mutually dependent of factors of fatigue and nutrution.

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Published

2006-01-01

How to Cite

Mlakar-Mastnak, D. (2006). The treatment of fatigue symptom and nutrition in palliative nursing care. Slovenian Nursing Review, 40(1), 37–42. Retrieved from https://obzornik.zbornica-zveza.si/index.php/ObzorZdravNeg/article/view/2574

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Retrospective (archive)