Nursing measures for primary liver cancer

How should patients with primary liver cancer be cared for? Experts say that in addition to completing treatment in daily life and taking some drugs such as ginsenoside Rh2 to improve the patient's immune function and alleviate the condition, the most important thing for liver cancer patients is to do the following:

How to care for primary liver cancer: Maintain a good attitude

Patients should keep a relatively calm state of mind in their daily lives and actively cooperate with doctors in their treatment. As the saying goes, "anger hurts the liver," so liver cancer patients should avoid excessive emotional fluctuations in their daily lives. Suffering from primary liver cancer does not mean that you cannot do anything. You can do what you can according to your actual situation. You can do some light housework or some light sports activities such as walking, practicing Tai Chi, practicing Qigong, etc., but you should not feel tired as a principle, and you must avoid heavy labor and intense sports activities. Because emotional excitement, heavy physical labor and intense activities may induce hemorrhage in the plica of liver cancer nodules and endanger life. You should know that hemorrhage in the plica of liver cancer nodules is one of the most common causes of death in liver cancer patients.

How to care for primary liver cancer 2: Eat a light diet

Because most liver cancer patients have impaired liver function, their diet should be light and easy to digest. They should not eat too much high-protein and high-fat food, because high-protein and high-fat diet will increase the burden on the liver and kidneys, and may even induce hepatic encephalopathy (the liver's detoxification ability decreases, excessive protein decomposition produces a large amount of ammonia that accumulates in the blood, enters the brain and causes patients to have mental symptoms or even coma and death). In addition, spicy, irritating and rough foods should also be avoided, because patients with primary liver cancer are prone to portal vein cancer thrombosis, causing portal hypertension, esophageal and gastric fundus varicose veins. Once the diet is improper, it may cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients, which is life-threatening.

In addition, we would like to remind everyone: patients with primary liver cancer must pay attention to food hygiene. Unclean food can cause intestinal infections, which may eventually induce serious life-threatening complications.

1: Appropriate restrictions on food. Foods that liver cancer patients should not eat include: rooster, Muscovy duck, pork head, shrimp, crab, snail, mussel, silkworm pupa, mutton, dog meat, eel, bamboo shoots, chili pepper, fried food, tobacco, alcohol, etc. (some of which are considered to be irritating by the public). Of course, it is difficult to explain them one by one. Individual patients will not necessarily have problems if they eat these foods. To be precise, it is safe to do so.

2: Limit the amount of food. The patient has a bad spleen and stomach, so he should eat in moderation, avoid overeating, and avoid picky eating. Pay attention to fruit supplementation.

How to care for primary liver cancer 3: proper exercise

Liver cancer patients who can return to work should do so as much as possible (it must be light physical labor). This is because patients are idle at home all day and will always think of themselves as patients, which increases their mental burden and is not conducive to recovery. Appropriate exercise and returning to work with co-workers can help them let go of their mental burden to a certain extent, which is beneficial to their health.

In general, liver cancer is highly malignant and progresses rapidly among digestive tract tumors. Once diagnosed, active treatment measures should be taken, including early surgical treatment and chemotherapy. Nutrition should be strengthened before and after surgery to reduce the body's consumption. Usually, intravenous nutrition is used as supportive treatment within 4 days after surgery. The implementation of intravenous nutrition can be divided into central venous infusion and peripheral venous infusion.