Patients often experience a poor appetite when hospitalized. All of these conditions are likely explanations for this EXCEPT:

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The presence of family members is not likely to be a cause for a patient's poor appetite. In fact, family members may help encourage a patient to eat or bring in food from home to make meals more appealing. Emotional distress, medications that alter taste, meals being served at inconvenient times, and lack of normal social interactions are all potential causes for a patient's poor appetite in the hospital.

Patients Often Experience a Poor Appetite When Hospitalized