Friday, March 11, 2016

Talking about 'thrombocytopenia'

On Tuesday some of my colleagues in the social service provided an exposition to parents of hospitalized pediatric patients at The State Institute of Oncology about thrombocytopenia.

It's any disorder in which there is a low amount of platelets (they're parts of the blood that help blood to clot). Which is a very common condition in patients with cancer, because it's a side effect of medications or treatments like chemotherapy. So they're patients who need special care in their nutrition to prevent bleeding and increase the number of platelets.

In the exhibition my colleagues showed nutritional recommendations and examples of foods to increase platelets.
The image shows some examples of foods. In addition, you should eat whole grains, meat and eggs.

But I also found that there are some foods that avoid clotting and therefore shouldn't be eaten, such as omega 3 (you can find it in fish and seeds. It generates decrease the connection between platelets), garlic (it improves blood flow which avoids that platelets forming clots), onion (it contains quercetin, which destroys free radicals in the body, but inhibits platelet production), ginger (it improves blood flow), kiwi (it improves blood flow, too) and milk.

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