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My mother has some cancerous tumors and is undergoing treatment for them but is on very high dose pain killers and that killing her apatite which has resulted "Hypoalbuminemia" (low albumin from malnutrition).
She had a lung resection Tuesday morning to remover several tumors and Thursday had some rods put in her back bridging T6-T10 due to T8 being destroyed by a tumor. The pain from the spine has been persistent for the last 4 weeks and has resulted in her being on 40mg oral time released morphine every 12 hrs and Percocet between as needed. Since this all started her nutrition has gone to shit from stress , lack of apatite and poor digestion from the pain meds. Well Friday after having a long drawn out argument with a retarded "hospital dietitian" and two ignorant nurses I took it upon myself to give her some LBA's mixed with water rather than the Ensure the dietitian swore she needed which gave her terrible gas leading to more use of the Dilaudid PCA!!
After consulting with her cardiologist who is the same one that tracks my labs her oral morphinine was brought to 20mg every 6hrs which has eliminated the need for the PCA and pretty much the percocet. She has been drinking 8 oz LBA's a day mixed with various fruit and vegetable juices and her blood work seems to be getting MUCH better.
Now for the question. She is scheduled to start chemo in 3 weeks and this will certainly kill her apatite so she is going to need a quality protein supplement she can use that will be easly absorbed and digested , I only have 10 bottles of LBA's left so I need to find something to use when that runs out.
My first guess would be high grade whey isolate but if their is anything else out their that will work better i'd like to know.
She had a lung resection Tuesday morning to remover several tumors and Thursday had some rods put in her back bridging T6-T10 due to T8 being destroyed by a tumor. The pain from the spine has been persistent for the last 4 weeks and has resulted in her being on 40mg oral time released morphine every 12 hrs and Percocet between as needed. Since this all started her nutrition has gone to shit from stress , lack of apatite and poor digestion from the pain meds. Well Friday after having a long drawn out argument with a retarded "hospital dietitian" and two ignorant nurses I took it upon myself to give her some LBA's mixed with water rather than the Ensure the dietitian swore she needed which gave her terrible gas leading to more use of the Dilaudid PCA!!
After consulting with her cardiologist who is the same one that tracks my labs her oral morphinine was brought to 20mg every 6hrs which has eliminated the need for the PCA and pretty much the percocet. She has been drinking 8 oz LBA's a day mixed with various fruit and vegetable juices and her blood work seems to be getting MUCH better.
Now for the question. She is scheduled to start chemo in 3 weeks and this will certainly kill her apatite so she is going to need a quality protein supplement she can use that will be easly absorbed and digested , I only have 10 bottles of LBA's left so I need to find something to use when that runs out.
My first guess would be high grade whey isolate but if their is anything else out their that will work better i'd like to know.