I thought of this query when reading Brucie's post on http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/talkingpoint/discuss/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=2083
Brucie said that his wife eats more than him even now. My Dad too eats like a horse and yet he looks like a prisoner of war. I've been delighted the last week because after plying him with all sorts of extra foods, sausages and biscuits and lollies he's been reported to have put on some weight, and I can finally feel some flesh over his rib bones, although not much.
At the home he lives in we are also fortunate in that they quite happily give him double serves of all the meals, if we ask or good staff are on. Even so, and despite my efforts he is scarily skinny.
Can anyone tell me, is this part of the disease, or is it the medication or is it just peculiar to Dad? Or was he not fed enough when he lived at home? Anyone have a normal weight alzheimers sufferer they know of? Dad's metabolism seems to have gone through the roof or he doesn't absorb the food he gets. There appears to be both fat and thin people in his dementia ward, but maybe their not at his stage?? Questions, questions, questions....
Brucie said that his wife eats more than him even now. My Dad too eats like a horse and yet he looks like a prisoner of war. I've been delighted the last week because after plying him with all sorts of extra foods, sausages and biscuits and lollies he's been reported to have put on some weight, and I can finally feel some flesh over his rib bones, although not much.
At the home he lives in we are also fortunate in that they quite happily give him double serves of all the meals, if we ask or good staff are on. Even so, and despite my efforts he is scarily skinny.
Can anyone tell me, is this part of the disease, or is it the medication or is it just peculiar to Dad? Or was he not fed enough when he lived at home? Anyone have a normal weight alzheimers sufferer they know of? Dad's metabolism seems to have gone through the roof or he doesn't absorb the food he gets. There appears to be both fat and thin people in his dementia ward, but maybe their not at his stage?? Questions, questions, questions....
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