Dietician suspended after lime water cancer claim
GoogleA NHS dietician has been suspended after suggesting to a colleague that drinking lime water was "1,000 times more effective than chemotherapy" in treating cancer.
A tribunal heard that Aparna Srivastava also told a 91-year-old patient with Parkinson's Disease to take up yoga.
She was working as a locum for the East Riding Community Dietitian team run by City Health Care Partnership in 2018 when she messaged a co-worker saying "cancer does not spread without sugar" and "taking three spoons of organic or virgin coconut oil in the early morning will keep cancer at bay".
The Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) said Srivastava also told a patient to listen to Classic FM.
Additional allegations included telling another patient to chew their food 32 times and suggesting specific brands of food or telling patients to buy products from certain shops "without providing clinical reasoning for doing so".
Srivastava, who was suspended following a hearing last year, had her registration suspended for a further 12 months by the HCPTS.
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