NUTRITION

Disclaimer.

SPECIAL READER ADVISORY. Nutrition is a highly individual matter and even more so in Trigeminal Neuralgia/Atypical Facial Pain. Everyone has different body chemistry, health history and medications. The following material is general information only. You need to talk to your doctor before making any changes in your dietary habits or taking any supplements, herbs, or other substances.

Some of the main challenges in any chronic pain condition are to the nervous system and the body systems most affected in physical stress management, the endocrine system (namely the adrenal glands) and the immune system. These challenges are critical to people with facial neuralgia conditions, especially when pain interferes with eating. With this in mind, we offer information on nutritional support to enhance these body systems in the hopes that proper nutrition will possibly have postive effect in keeping a person healthier and better able to cope with their conditions.

Nervous System - Nutritional support for the nervous system.

Endocrine System - Nutritional support for the adrenal glands.

Immune System. - Under construction

Adaptation of the above information for soft or liquid diets - Under construction