Re: Diet to counter acute radiation dose?

["Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>]

General supportive care (good nursing, diet, fluids, etc.) 
can maintain patients exposed to acute whole-body radiation 
while their bone marrow recovers--assuming the dose was 
sublethal.  Patients getting therapeutic radiation to the 
upper GI tract (mouth, throat, esophagus) have difficulty 
eating because of the mucositis and depressed taste 
perception.  Imaginative diet is very helpful in such cases.
There are no cures for acute radiation injury (with the 
possible exception of bone marrow transplant in patients in 
a very limited dose range).

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 08:09:40 -0600 (CST) "John E Riley, Jr" 
<jerjr@holta.ho.lucent.com> wrote:

> Has anyone heard of a dietary assist/cure to counter the effects of acute radiation
> doses, accidental or therapeutic?
> 
> jer
> 

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