What to eat if you have cervical cancer

Early cervical cancer has little effect on digestive tract function, so the diet at this time is mainly to enhance the patient's disease resistance and improve immune function, and appropriate nutritional supplements can be given. The diet for cervical cancer can be divided into two stages: before treatment and after treatment. What is the best diet for cervical cancer?

1. Arrange your diet according to the specific symptoms. If you have vaginal bleeding, you can eat some blood-tonifying, hemostatic, and anti-cancer foods, such as red dates, coix seeds, hawthorn, black fungus, and black plums. If you have watery leucorrhea, you should eat nourishing foods, such as soft-shelled turtle, pigeon eggs, and chicken.
2. After the operation, you should eat more foods that replenish qi and nourish blood, such as yam, astragalus, longan, mulberry, wolfberry, angelica, turtle, sesame, donkey skin glue, etc., to achieve the tonic effect.
3. When receiving radiotherapy, the diet should focus on nourishing blood and yin. You can eat beef, pork liver, donkey-hide gelatin, fungus, spinach, celery, etc.; if radiation cystitis and proctitis occur due to radiotherapy, you should pay attention to clearing heat and dampness, nourishing yin and detoxifying. You can eat more watermelon, coix seed, red bean, water chestnut, lotus root, etc.
4. When receiving chemotherapy, the diet should focus on strengthening the spleen and kidney. You can eat yam, coix seed, astragalus, lily, fungus, lotus root, etc. If the patient has digestive tract reactions, such as nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite, the diet should strengthen the spleen and stomach. You can take sugarcane juice, ginger juice, black plum, kumquat, etc.
5. In the late stage of cervical cancer, patients should choose high-protein, high-calorie foods, such as milk, eggs, beef, turtle, pork liver, fish oil, etc.