No Saliva? - No Problem - The Answer: okra water

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BlacksuitDC
BlacksuitDC Member Posts: 18
edited March 2017 in Head and Neck Cancer #1

Your new best friend:  Okra.  You are going to make okra water.  Simmer cut okra in a covered pot of water for approx. 10 minutes. 2 cups of okra to 4-5 cups of water. Your end result is ‘okra water’.  Drain the okra and place in a container. Fill that container with more water, cover, and pop in fridge to sit. This will yield you additional okra water.  You can eat the cooked okra, too.  Mix it with warm foods like a sweet n sour chicken by P.F. Chang (Fz bags in grocery stores).  Pour your okra water in a glass and drink it when you swallow.  Drink it warm with your favorite chocolate. Yes, you can ‘enjoy’ chocolate again.  Easiest with chocolate marshmallow bunnies/eggs/hearts/santas. The soft marshmallow helps bind and melts fast.  Important: warm okra water with chocolate.  The solution works fine at room temps for other food.  I like it warm. Fill a water bottle with okra water and you can go out to a restaurant and sort of be normal again.  I take two little bottles of it with me in my purse.  It looks like you have flavored the water or have tea in the bottle.    

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  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    okra to the rescue

    BlacksuitDC,

    Welcome to the H&N forum, where good ideas are welcome.

    Did you have saliva problems caused by radiation?

    Matt

  • BlacksuitDC
    BlacksuitDC Member Posts: 18
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    CivilMatt said:

    okra to the rescue

    BlacksuitDC,

    Welcome to the H&N forum, where good ideas are welcome.

    Did you have saliva problems caused by radiation?

    Matt

    Okra to the rescue

    CivilMatt,

    Yes, saliva issues from sixty-three radiation treatments plus 6 weeks of chemo.

  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
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    Hell ya...

    I'll give it a try...I love okra in vegetable beef soup...so already have a use for it in my head. 

    P

  • AnotherSurvivor
    AnotherSurvivor Member Posts: 383 Member
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    Looked up okra, and there

    Looked up okra, and there might actually be something to it.  The thick sap from it has been used for medical purposes.  Way back, probably East Africa in origins, with adoption around the world.  Also, google reveals that this website surfaces this as a topic.  Found a discussion from 2010.  Anyway, WTH, xylitol isn't doing much.

  • BlacksuitDC
    BlacksuitDC Member Posts: 18
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    phrannie51 said:

    Hell ya...

    I'll give it a try...I love okra in vegetable beef soup...so already have a use for it in my head. 

    P

    It works...

    It will work.  Make it thick.  Too thick to eat like soup witha spoon.  (It won't stay in the spoon. It slides off. Very slippery stuff.  Just what we need.) You can always thin it but try it thick.  Its the gum in gumbo. You will be surprised at what you can eat with it alson for the ride. It's wonderful.  Warm it  in the microwave. Sip it cold. Depends on what you wish to eat (wash it down with).

  • BlacksuitDC
    BlacksuitDC Member Posts: 18
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    AnotherSurvivor said:

    Looked up okra, and there

    Looked up okra, and there might actually be something to it.  The thick sap from it has been used for medical purposes.  Way back, probably East Africa in origins, with adoption around the world.  Also, google reveals that this website surfaces this as a topic.  Found a discussion from 2010.  Anyway, WTH, xylitol isn't doing much.

    Okra makes swallowing VERY easy...it just slides down on its own

    Okra water is very gummy ...  perfect to use to swallow - wash down food.  Your list of food you can eat will triple. Use a funnel and a small cup to get it into an empty water bottle.  Take it out to eat with you.  It looks so normal. Sip when you swallow.  Life has gotten so much easier with okra water.  Also, eat foods with the cooked okra. Lots of gummy goo still left in the okra after you save the water.   It's over cooked but the vitamins are in the water.  The okra is soft and warm.  Mix the okra with what you wanted to be eating but couldn't eat.  See if it works/helps you swallow. Suggestion: mix with sweet and sour chicken.  Chicken is very hard to eat. It comes apart when you chew. I'm considering even taking a tub of my cooked okra along and mixing it with a restaurant meal. No one would notice and I don’t care if they do. I miss eating out.   

     

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