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Pediatric Nutrition

Specificities of taste perception in children with oncological diseases
 Pediatric Nutrition -  Pediatric Nutrition -  2017 volume 15 issue 6

Specificities of taste perception in children with oncological diseases

Authors / Institutions

Tatyana A. Kovtun / Affiliated Research Centre of Therapy and Rehabilitation «Russkoe pole», Dmitry Rogachev National Research Centre of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Immunology, Moscow, Russian Federation

Andrey Yu. Vashura / Dmitri Rogachev Federal Scientific and Clinical Centre of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Immunology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
Taste disorders in paediatric oncology patients both during active treatment and in the rehabilitation phase have a negative effect not only on nutrition. long-term prognosis, treatment outcomes but also on the quality of life in general. The younger a child the more marked are long-term outcomes of impaired taste perception, since the human eating pattern is formed in childhood, when stable taste preferences are laid down and the attitude to the eating procedure is brought up. 

Key words: taste, taste disorder, children, oncological diseases.

For citation: Kovtun T.A., Vashura A.Yu. Specificities of taste perception in children with oncological diseases. Vopr. det. dietol. (Pediatric Nutrition). 2017; 15(6): 37–42. (In Russian).
DOI: 10.20953/1727-5784-2017-6-37-42

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