What to do if you discover colorectal cancer in its early stages

With the continuous development of society, the number of patients with colorectal cancer is increasing, and it has become a major killer threatening human health. In order to better treat it, we must have a good understanding of its treatment methods, which will help us cooperate in the treatment process.

1) Diet adjustment: Generally, three days after the operation, you can start to eat liquid food, such as rice soup, or porridge, and gradually transition to semi-liquid and normal food. The diet should be light and mild, eat small meals frequently, avoid spicy and irritating food, avoid eating hypertonic, overcooled, overheated, and gas-producing food, especially during chemotherapy. Do not eat greasy seafood and other difficult to digest foods. You can eat foods rich in carbohydrates to increase water and salt absorption.

2) Drug treatment: Diarrhea during chemotherapy may be related to chemotherapy drugs, especially diarrhea caused by oxaliplatin, which is often more serious and should be taken seriously. Imodium or Enmecta can be given. Diarrhea during or after radiotherapy should be considered as radiation enteritis. Other mild diarrhea patients with less than 4 bowel movements per day do not need to take antidiarrheal drugs. Generally, diarrhea symptoms can be alleviated after two days of medication. Severe patients with bowel movements of 10 to 20 times per day should seek medical attention in time and receive intravenous nutrition therapy, and pay attention to preventing water and electrolyte imbalance.

3) Treatment of dysbacteriosis: stool flora analysis or stool culture can be performed. If the ratio of cocci and bacilli in the stool is unbalanced, the original antibiotics should be discontinued after the diagnosis is confirmed. If necessary, appropriate antibiotics can be selected based on drug sensitivity tests to inhibit excessive bacterial growth. Intestinal flora adjusting drugs such as bifidobacterium preparations can also be used.

4) Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment: The role of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of tumors is increasingly valued. Combining traditional Chinese medicine treatment with Western medicine can help the body restore dynamic balance, reduce perioperative complications in the short term, increase the sensitivity of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, reduce toxic side effects, reduce recurrence and metastasis in the long term, improve the quality of life of advanced patients, and prolong survival with tumors.