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Advance Nursing Practice 2018

J u n e 2 1 - 2 2 , 2 0 1 8

P a r i s , F r a n c e

Page 34

Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

ISSN 2574-2825

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t is known that the nutritional status of patients who receive nutrition via

enteral feeding or other infusions, in which there are no taste sensations,

tend not to improve even with high-calorie nutrients. Findings from recent

experimental studies using animal models of intragastric tube feeding have

suggested that a lack of taste and olfactory information may delay glucose

metabolism after food intake. We hypothesized that concurrent taste stimuli

in patients receiving infusions or enteral nutrition without oral ingestion

would improve nutrient absorption, and in this study examine the effects of

taste stimuli experimentally. The study is a randomized, controlled, cross-over

trial. During the intervention period, subjects eat milk chocolate, and during

the control period they swallow capsules filled with milk chocolate. This was

done to investigate the effects of chocolate’s pleasing taste and smell. Blood

glucose levels were measured continuously. A preliminary trial showed that

blood glucose did not rise with the chocolate-filled capsules as much as when

chocolate was eaten normally, and the change was slower. The experiments

are currently underway, and detailed results will be reported at the conference.

Limitations to this study are that it is a basic study with healthy subjects rather

than a clinical study with patients as subjects, and that it is not an animal

study in which precise data are obtained. If it is shown that the absorption of

nutrients from enteral or intravenous nutrition is promoted by concurrent taste

and olfactory stimuli, such findings would be applicable in various nursing

settings, such as in caring for cerebrovascular patients and chemotherapy

patients.

Biography

Yoshiko Hasebe has been working at Nayoro City University

School of Health Science. She is a professor of Adult Nursing,

and has her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving

the nursing practice. She has published many textbooks and

DVDs about nursing arts in Japan.

yhasebe@nayoro.ac.jp

Effects of taste and olfactory stimulus on glucose kinetics in

normal healthy subjects

Yoshiko Hasebe

Nayoro City University, Japan

Yoshiko Hasebe, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume: 3

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C3-008