[姑息治疗中的口腔粘膜问题]。
[Oral mucosa problems in palliative care].
发表日期：2024 Aug
作者：
Petra Vayne-Bossert
来源：
Food & Function
摘要：
高达 80% 的姑息治疗患者出现口腔健康问题。几乎所有这些患者都患有口干症，这通常是药物副作用的结果。尽管口干本身并不是一种疾病，但它会增加患其他更严重的口腔病变和疾病的风险。口腔炎是对放射或肿瘤治疗引起的病变的炎症反应，非常痛苦，并且可能严重干扰食物和液体的摄入。最后，口腔真菌感染在免疫抑制患者中非常常见。这些实体都有特定的症状和体征，可能会损害食物和液体的摄入，但也会对这些患者的生活质量产生影响。因此，系统化、标准化的评估至关重要，所有医疗保健专业人员都可以轻松完成。© 2024 Aerzteverlag medinfo AG。
Oral health problems appear in up to 80 % of palliative care patients. Almost all of these patients suffer from a dry mouth which is often the result of medication side effects. Even though a dry mouth is not a disease by itself, it enhances the risk of developing other more serious oral lesions and diseases. Stomatitis, an inflammatory response to radio- or oncological treatment induced lesions, is very painful and may interfere severely with the ingestion of food and fluids. Finally, oral fungal infections are very common in immunosuppressed patients. Each of these entities comes with specific symptoms and signs which may impair food and fluid intake but also have consequences on the quality of life in these patients. Hence, a systematic and standardized evaluation is essential and can be accomplished with little effort by all health care professionals.© 2024 Aerzteverlag medinfo AG.