sweet things
Hi, My mum has started eating sweet things which she has never really done when she was well. She was diagnosed about 18 months ago. When we go shopping its almost as if she's grabbing all the cake, biscuits and sweet stuff off the shelves and thats all she seems to eat all the time. On Saturday morning we bought a tub of grapes, a piece of fruit cake and a box of dates and they were all gone by Saturday night. Consequently when the carers come to do her dinners she tells them she's not hungry. I suspected she was eating between meals but when I ask her she insists she doesn't. I saw the carer this morning as I had to go round to her flat for an appointment and she said some days she goes in and there's all sorts of food out that she's had and not cleared away. She has Wiltshire Farm Food dinners but won't eat them because she's been eating all day and isnt hungry. She won't wait for the carers to come and do her dinner (its not that they come late, 1230 and 5 pm) and she goes and gets cake or bread and jam. She can't remember when she's eaten things either. Do dementia sufferers lose the ability to know whether they are hungry or not? I'm going to have to stop buying cake and biscuits in the hope that she won't eat in between meals as I realise now that she doesn't eat them a bit at a time. Although she'll probably find something else to eat..... QUOTE=Richierich;1151400]
My mum has started eating lots of cakes, crisps and generally sweet things instead of proper meals... Is this somehow related to her dementia or her tablets?
Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks
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Hi, My mum has started eating sweet things which she has never really done when she was well. She was diagnosed about 18 months ago. When we go shopping its almost as if she's grabbing all the cake, biscuits and sweet stuff off the shelves and thats all she seems to eat all the time. On Saturday morning we bought a tub of grapes, a piece of fruit cake and a box of dates and they were all gone by Saturday night. Consequently when the carers come to do her dinners she tells them she's not hungry. I suspected she was eating between meals but when I ask her she insists she doesn't. I saw the carer this morning as I had to go round to her flat for an appointment and she said some days she goes in and there's all sorts of food out that she's had and not cleared away. She has Wiltshire Farm Food dinners but won't eat them because she's been eating all day and isnt hungry. She won't wait for the carers to come and do her dinner (its not that they come late, 1230 and 5 pm) and she goes and gets cake or bread and jam. She can't remember when she's eaten things either. Do dementia sufferers lose the ability to know whether they are hungry or not? I'm going to have to stop buying cake and biscuits in the hope that she won't eat in between meals as I realise now that she doesn't eat them a bit at a time. Although she'll probably find something else to eat..... QUOTE=Richierich;1151400]
My mum has started eating lots of cakes, crisps and generally sweet things instead of proper meals... Is this somehow related to her dementia or her tablets?
Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks
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