How to care for lymphoma during recovery period

After surgery, patients with lymphoma must actively undergo rehabilitation treatment and regular checkups to prevent recurrence of the disease. Care during the rehabilitation period is beneficial to their long-term survival. So how should care be done during the rehabilitation period of lymphoma? Let's introduce it to you below!

1. Psychologically: Most people believe that cancer is impossible to cure, so most patients have great psychological pressure, but patients should get rid of psychological burdens during the recovery period, maintain a good mood, take a positive attitude towards cancer, and avoid negative emotions. Lymphoma patients should communicate more with others, make daily life more pleasant and strengthen their confidence, improve their immune function, and help them overcome the disease.
2. Dietary care: Family members of lymphoma patients need to pay attention to a reasonable diet and ensure adequate nutrition. You need to eat more easily digestible foods and avoid eating irritating foods, which will be helpful to the treatment effect.
3. Patients’ personal living habits: In daily life, patients need to take measures to ensure their personal hygiene. It is recommended to develop good personal habits to reduce resistance to the disease, because patients should actively prevent infection. In addition, they need to get enough sleep to replenish their physical strength.
4. Regular check-ups are very important: Regular check-ups should be strictly followed according to the doctor's instructions. Follow-up visits should be conducted 2 to 3 months after discharge, and every 6 months after one year. Lymphoma patients should regularly check their temperature in daily life, and pay attention to digestive symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and black stools, and whether there are redness, nodules, infiltrated erythema and itching on the skin, manifestations involving the skin, cough, cough with blood, shortness of breath, dyspnea and other respiratory symptoms. If they occur, they should go to the hospital for treatment.