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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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Unknown userMember
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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SmcSenior Contributor
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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outlanderSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
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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outlanderSenior Contributor
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SmcSenior Contributor
@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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SmcSenior Contributor
@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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