COPD

How Can a COPD Dietitian and Nutritionist Help

A registered dietitian and nutritionist for COPD can help sufferers in a number of ways. Here’s how:

• Assess your current food and fluid intake to ensure you are meeting your specific nutritional needs. 
• Provide strategies to manage shortness of breath during and/or after eating meals.
• Outline strategies to make foods easier to chew, if needed.
• Give tips and strategies to reduce tiredness related to meal prep and eating.
• Implement nutritional interventions to reduce bloating, if needed.
• Create a meal plan to gain weight, if you’ve experienced weight loss due to increased calories used for breathing.
• Enlist the help of a dietitian to lose weight, if recommended, to improve your breathing. 
• Create personalized meal plans that meet your specific needs and can make breathing easier, while taking into account any other health conditions and lifestyle factors. 
• Provide follow-up sessions to monitor progress, address additional concerns, answer questions and make ongoing adjustments to the plan, if necessary.
• Address any other co-existing chronic disease and/or conditions, needs and goals. Examples: work with a diabetes dietitian, IBS nutritionist, PCOS dietitian, sports nutrition support and more.
• Work with other health professionals to help manage symptoms, if applicable.
• Have concerns addressed and questions answered by a registered dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in COPD–if within scope of dietary practice.
• And more.

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