Bone marrow transplant patients could be spared from ‘bland’ diet

Whenever a hematopoietic cell transplant affected person tries to get a member of the family to sneak meals in previous the nurses, Federico Stella, a resident hematologist on the College of Milan, remembers. One was a lady who tried to get her sister to carry her a panettone, a Milanese candy bread normally eaten across the holidays. Every week earlier than Christmas, the sister tried to cover the panettone in a bag.

“However the nurses opened the bag and, effectively,” Stella shrugged.