Chemotherapy Induced Taste Alteration and Nursing Care

Öz

The sense of taste is an important sense to maintain the life of an individual. There are many factors that negatively affect the function of the sense of taste. Chemotherapy agents are also included in these factors. Chemotherapy induced taste alteration is a condition commonly experienced by the patients. The taste alterations arise depending on chemotherapy due to the   neurotoxic effects of chemotherapy agents and their effects on taste buds, which are responsible for the sense of taste, and the saliva. Taste alterations vary depending on the chemotherapy type received by patients and other variables. Taste alterations experienced by patients affect them in many ways and reduce the quality of their lives. Individuals’ sense of taste should be evaluated and they should receive treatments in accordance with changes occurred in their taste buds.

 

 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Chemoterapy, Oncology Nursing, Taste Alterations

Kemoterapiye Bağlı Tat Alma Değişikliği ve Hemşirelik Bakımı

Öz

Tat alma duyusu bireyin yaşamının devam ettirilmesinde görevli önemli bir duyudur. Tat alma duyusunun fonksiyonlarını olumsuz etkileyen pek çok faktör bulunmaktadır. Bu faktörler arasında kemoterapi ajanları da yer almaktadır. Kemoterapiye bağlı tat alma değişikliği hastaların sıklıkla yaşadıkları bir durumdur. Kemoterapi ajanlarının tat alma duyusundan sorumlu olan tat tomurcuklarını, tükürük salgısını etkilemesi ve nörotoksik etkileri nedeniyle kemoterapiye bağlı tat alma değişikliği ortaya çıkmaktadır. Alınan kemoterapi türü ve diğer değişkenlere göre hastaların yaşadıkları tat alma değişikliği farklılık göstermektedir. Yaşanılan tat alma değişikliği hastaları çok yönlü olarak etkilemekte ve yaşam kalitelerini azaltmaktadır. Bireylerin tat alma duyusunu değerlendirilmeli ve tat alma duyusunda meydana gelen değişiklere göre bakımları gerçekleştirilmelidir.

 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Kemoterapi, Onkoloji Hemşireliği, Tat Alma Değişikliği

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