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Carers under 30...

Carers under 30...

Hi everyone.
Im just wondering if theres any young carers on here?
Im 20 and would love to have people around this age bracket to talk to.

I love and respect my elders too though 💖

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Potato is a good source of carbs. If you can manage that, it'll do well at cushioning your digestive system a bit.
Sugary stuff might not be a bad idea at the moment too, if you can stomach it. Sugar provides a quick energy boost, and the "wobbly" could well be from lower than usual blood sugar. Ice cream, custard, mousse, yoghurt?

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So far the only thing ive managed besides water is abit of watered down pumpkin soup, some milo flavoured custard and some cups of tea. Couldn't even handle jelly, mousse or ice cream. Ill see how i go with potato. I might be able to puree pumpkin or something in there tomorrow if it goes down ok tonight...
@Smc

Any other recipe recommendations anyone?

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My dental recovery recipes were mostly "real food" with finer particles than usual. I made tuna mornay, for example, but grated the veggies and served it with quinoa instead of rice.
Simpler option would be mashed veggies with tuna and maybe some grated cheese stirred through it.

Pureed or mashed fruit. Stewed apples with cream? If you're having tinned fruit, it may be nicer warmed up instead of cold. Warm seems to feel as if its more satisfying sometimes.

Eggs are good for protein. Scrambled, or soft boiled and mashed.

Noodles, once you can swallow a bit better. They're soft and slippery, so they go down fairly easily.

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didn't those get stuck in her teeth or in the stitches? @Smc
I brought some ready made mashed potato from like a chicken shop where they do meals as well but their mashed potato was so lumpy that I had to chew and it was just pulling everything in my mouth and now some is stuck in my teeth. with minimal movement atm its going to be a pain trying to rinse it out gently.
atm I literally have to be able to put it in and swallow without playing with it to much. I only had prob a few tablespoons worth of this mash before it was to much. ive already had painkillers and things as well so the pain is more bearable but it doesn't seem to be helping much in the way of eating much. Its really frustrating

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@outlander, these were mosty things I was eating after I'd had a wisdom tooth out a couple of years ago. I got an infection in the "dry socket", so recovery took a little longer than it should have. I didn't have stitches but did have a lot of painful swelling. Mostly I could just swallow mouthfuls of those meals without chewing, but I can't tell you for sure whether stitches would cause problems.

Older Daughter had stitches, but her surgery was maybe 10-15 years ago. Even then, her recovery was complicated by her tendency to be over-responsive to pain. I think she believed she couldn't eat anything much, and therefore she couldn't... Once a doctor pointed out that she needed to have food in her system, she managed to eat somehow, but I can't remember what she was eating.

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@outlander

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Ah yeah i remember your daughter is overly responsive to any pain. @Smc im not overly hungry but still try to have bitd and pieces through the day. Anything more then a few mouthfuls becomes painful so im finiding smaller is best. The potato was ok once i got most of the lumps out so am going to try that with maybe carrots or sweet potato boiled and then blended together in a milky mash and hopefully thatll help too.
I think once it heals abit more and i get abit more movement/less pain itll be easier to chew a litle bit or swollow thicker foods too.

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Awaiting your pic @Former-Member

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mm yes indeed @Former-Member I wish I could drink threw a straw. gosh that would make things more pleasant

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@outlander, if I remember correctly, straws are no-go after oral surgery because sucking can disturb the clots and re-open the wounds?
Hate to be the bearer of more "tricky" news, but you're probably not hungry because you've gone long enough with inadequate food for your body to have switched into "starvation" or "fasting" mode. The hunger signal cuts out as a way of coping with perceived famine. Once you start getting a bit of food into you, the hunger signal will kick back in. As long as it doesn't do so at two in the morning! (If so... milk's not bad as a liquid hunger-settler.)

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