Week 9: LEC Therapeutic Diets

GROUP 3:  SOFT DIET

Situation:  A week ago, 32-year-old Matt underwent a surgery to repair his jaws; he sustained the injury after a
motorcycle accident. He works as a food delivery rider; weighs 60 kgs and stands 5’4”.   

 Discuss why the diet was prescribed to the patient.

 soft diets are prescribed to people who have recently undergone mouth or jaw surgery that has affected
their ability to chew. This is because of any facial swelling in patient may have. Patient will need to drink
plenty of nourishing fluids, for example soups, milk, and smoothies, it is important during the recovery
period in order to provide an adequate nutritional intake
 Soft diets help most types of dysphagia by making it easier to move food in the mouth and esophagus.
 The soft diet can also be used for a postoperative patient who is too ill to tolerate a general diet. The
soft diet may also be needed for patients who are too weak or whose dentition is too poor to handle all
foods on a general diet.