| Author/Editor | Mlakar-Mastnak, Denis | |
| Title | Obravnava simptoma utrujenosti in prehrana z vidika paliativne zdravstvene nege | |
| Translated title | The treatment of fatigue symptom and nutrition in palliative nursing care | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | Obz Zdrav Nege | |
| Vol. and No. | Letnik 40, št. 1 | |
| Publication year | 2006 | |
| Volume | str. 37-42 | |
| Language | slo | |
| 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 progres.sive 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. | |
| Summary | V paliativni zdravstveni negi in oskrbi bolnika z rakom je prehrana dejavnik, ki lahko pomembno vpliva na kakovost bolnikovega življenja in na izid zdravljenja. Na prehranjevanje in prehranjenost bolnikov z napredovalo boleznijo lahko vpliva več različnih negativnih simptomov, tudi utrujenost. Kronična utrujenost je najpogostejši simptom, o katerem govorijo bolniki z rakom in je za bolnike z napredovalo boleznijo se posebej značilen. Vzroke kronične utrujenosti pri posameznem bolniku z rakom pogosto težko identificiramo predvsem zato, ker lahko izvira tako iz psiholoških kakor tudi iz fizioloških stanj. Med utrujenostjo in prehranjevalnimi težavami obstaja neposredna povezava. Utrujenost je pogosto posledica nezadovoljenih energijskih potreb bolnikovega organizma. Utrujenost lahko vpliva na slabo prehranjevanje bolnikov, kar lahko vodi v slabo prehranjenost bolnika, slaba prehranjenost pa pri bolniku poveča občutenje utrujenosti. Bolnik se tako znajde v začaranem krogu soodvisnosti dejavnikov utrujenosti in prehrane. | |
| Descriptors | PALLIATIVE CARE FATIGUE NUTRITION NURSING CARE |