diet during tx

past ten years before starting tx/now on tx

chicken (no skin)
raw vegtables
peanuts
pasta/tomato sauce (plain)
organic veg soups
granola
raw fruit
rare sweets. a few cookies once a week at most.
breads
no salt - last blood work doc said i need to add some sodium so i have.

here's the ?.
when the anemia sets in, what are good foods to add to the list to help?
thanks

[bolger]

i like coffee too.
what u gonna do?

[ellissg]

Soy milk and walnuts for protein. Vogurt, the good stuff like Smithfield, Alta Vista, Brown Cow, or Soy Vanilla. Be sure you are taking Vitamine E, Folic Acid, and a multivitamin.

[cuteus]

The anemia is hemolytic, per my GI, means the med destroys rbc.  I know of no food that stimulates the bone marrow to produce extra cells.

[Micro2]

I have had this problem 3x in the past 2 tx's. My doc's have said there is no food to help this because its the med causing it (as previously posted). This time I started Procrit with tx and the last time I used procrit when the hemo dropped. I am 6 weeks into my 2nd tx with increased riba and my current hemo is 10.7.

[thanbey]

There is some research that suggests coffee is a good thing for those with liver disease.

Drink up, in moderation, of course.

thanbey

[odessit]

A cup of coffee makes me drink 1 liter of plain water. I stay away from coffein.

[Indiana]

Vitamin B-12, vitamin C, Iron, and folic acid are the biggest things needed for Red blood cell production. Vitamin C and Folic acid are water soluble and with the amount of fluids we have to drink it's easy for these to get depleted pretty quickly. I used suppliments for both of these myself. A good multi vitamin without Iron(like Mens 1-a-day) helps a lot with many of these.  You gotta watch the iron stuff and don't take suppliments for this unless your doc says it's ok. We still need iron though and the iron we get from foods are ok.  
Here is a little list of foods and such and what they help with.....
Vitamins Sources and What Does it Do? ......
B1 You can get your vitamin B1, also known as thiamin, from these good food sources:

potatoes and all cereals

[Indiana]

Vitamin B-12, vitamin C, Iron,and folic acid are the biggies needed for production. Vitamin C is for the absorbtion and use of it. The other vitamins listed were just on the chart I copied but are still usefull to know about. Since he asked about food sources of them I posted the whole chart.
It's always better to get the vitamins through food. The problems come in when we do tx and our appetite goes away and we raise our water consumption which washes the water soluble stuff away faster. Thats where the suppliments are handy. We can take them throughout the day to keep the levels high. It's the same reason why we space out the Riba in 2 doses. It's all about levels.

[cuteus]

Hey Indy are those nutrients used in red cell production or hemoglobin?
In helping with hemoglobin production, maybe the fewer red cells left in the blood by the riba, are made to work OT.  So either we can stimulate the bone marrow to make more cells with Procrit or stimulate the leftover red cells, after the riba massacre, to work harder?

All those nutrients listed are excellent in increasing our energy level, women in particular ,if still menstruating, can benefit from the extra B6.

Yogurt can replenish our intestinal flora which in turn will supply us with the vitamin B complex.   IT also helps with the many tummy woes we feel during TX.