Answer to Question 1
If the liquids are served very cold, the taste is less offensive. Keep a lid on the container and, if possible, have the patient drink with a straw. This will help minimize the odor.
The usual supplements frequently taste extremely sweet to many cancer patients. Many of them find the unflavored supplements that are intended to be administered via feeding tube to be acceptable; e.g., Osmolite, Isocal, Magnacal, etc.
Answer to Question 2
Frequently females that are over forty years of age, overweight (fat), have had several children (fertile), and have a fair complexion have gall stones. From the above, someone has tagged this as the five F disease (female, fat, forty, fertile, fair), but it was not me
Woman that have had several children tend to be overweight or at least have significant fat deposits in their intestines. It has been suggested that this extra pressure, along with the pressure that was exerted on the GB from the pregnancies, could cause the irritation to get the stones started. After forty, or after menopause, the hormone change seems to be conducive to gallstone formation. I have not been able to find out what, if any, relationship fair complexion has with cholecystitis.
A phylogenetic tree of all living things
Comparison of normal-shaped erythro- cytes and the abnormal sickle shape noted in patients with sick
Basal cell carcinoma, a frequent type of skin cancer that rarely metastasizes.
Taxonomy of all living things
Taste Test
Increased Cancer Risk with BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation