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Advance Nursing Practice 2018
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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.jpEffects 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