Food

[Dave Wenger]

Are there certain foods I should avoid with MDS, any nutritional feedback would be great.

[mdsfound]

Though an all-cooked-food neutropenic diet may destroy needed nutrients, it is still generally recommended for MDS or other patients with severe neutropenia. Check with your treating physician to see what they recommend because the guidelines for a neutropenic diet vary by cancer center. Since our white blood cells help to fight infection, it is important to follow the USDA’s food safety precautions for people with cancer if your white blood cells are low: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/UCM312761.pdf. For more information regarding diet and anemia and/or thrombocytopenia, email ahassan@mds-foundation.org.

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