making dinner for a stroke person?!
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I want to make dinner for a person who just had a stoke, and I didn't know if they need special foods..
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The person should be able to eat the same type of diet they were eating before the stroke, unless they developed something like diabetes from the stroke.
If you want to make a dinner and don't want to call and ask them about their diet, stick to cooking something fairly simple and healthy, no salt or very low salt is always good. Baked foods are better than fried foods, etc.
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That all depends on their incapacity. The ability to swallow can be severely affected by stroke, therefore, that needs to be ascertained by a speech pathologist in respect to motor action of the mouth and throat. A lot of stroke victims can only eat thickened, blended food and fluids, a bit like baby food with absolutely no lumps at all, to avoid the risk of choking.
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I work in Aged Care and am very aware of this problem.
You would want to prepare low sodium foods
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