How to provide chemotherapy care for colorectal cancer

Everyone should know that colorectal cancer is a big threat to our health, because colorectal cancer will affect the patient's absorption of nutrients, and patients are particularly thin, so it is very important to supplement the nutrients of colorectal cancer patients. So how should colorectal cancer chemotherapy care be done? Regarding this issue, let's take a closer look at it below.

1. Dietary conditioning for decreased blood count: chemotherapy for colorectal cancer can cause poor bone marrow regeneration, especially decreased white blood cells. To effectively prevent decreased blood count, patients should supplement high-protein diet during chemotherapy, such as milk, soybeans, lean meat, pig's trotters, sea cucumbers, fish, animal liver, red dates, peanuts, walnuts, black fungus, carrots, red beans, etc. River crabs, black fish, beef, animal-made gelatin such as donkey hide gelatin (ejiao) and pig hide gelatin (roupi gelatin) can also help increase white blood cells.

Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to nourishing the internal organs, so during chemotherapy, you can also increase the amount of animal bone marrow, such as stewing the bone marrow of cattle, goats, and pigs, or making food with chicken blood, duck blood, goose blood, and pig blood. At the same time, you can also eat more five black foods, such as black sesame, black rice, black beans, black dates, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "black can enter the kidneys", and five black foods can nourish the kidneys and fill the marrow, which helps to improve blood counts.

2. Dietary conditioning for digestive tract toxicity: Chemotherapy for colorectal cancer can cause oral mucositis, which manifests as mucosal congestion, edema, ulcers, pain, etc. At this time, you should keep your mouth clean, brush your teeth after eating, and supplement with high-nutrition liquid or liquid diet, such as lotus seed soup, snow fungus soup, milk, soy milk, crucian carp soup, etc. Avoid overheated, overly acidic and irritating foods when eating. In acute inflammation, you can hold ice in your mouth to reduce inflammatory exudation. If ulcers occur, you can add 0.1 g of crushed vitamin C to 20 ml of honey and hold it in your mouth 2 to 4 times a day.

Chemotherapy damages the gastrointestinal mucosa, which may cause nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, and poor appetite. At this time, you can eat appetizers, such as hawthorn, lentils, yam, white radish, mushrooms, etc. At the same time, you should eat small meals frequently to avoid feeling full. You should chew your food slowly, do not lie flat for 1 hour after a meal, you can spread your body, do not drink water 1 hour before chemotherapy, and take 3-5 ml of fresh ginger juice orally if you feel nauseous and vomit during eating.

3. Dietary conditioning and prevention of liver and kidney damage: Some chemotherapy drugs can cause liver damage and increase transaminase. At this time, you should eat more bitter melon, mung bean sprouts, tea, mushrooms, fungus, Hericium erinaceus and other fungi, eat more fruits rich in vitamins, such as kiwi, peach, apple, grape, etc., drink more green tea, oolong tea, honey water. If the liver function is severely damaged, you can use 20 grams of Schisandra chinensis and 20 grams of wolfberry to stew crucian carp soup.

Some chemotherapy drugs can also cause kidney damage, such as cisplatin. In clinical practice, when using such drugs, you should drink more water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits (alkaline foods). Once kidney damage occurs, you should limit your protein intake. If you have edema, you should eat less salt and eat more animal kidneys, mullet, spinach and red amaranth. You can also eat more foods rich in water and have a diuretic effect, such as watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, and loofah.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone to pay attention to the dietary care during chemotherapy. Because the physical constitution of colorectal cancer patients will be particularly weak during chemotherapy. Secondly, for patients with advanced colorectal cancer who cannot eat independently, we can use injections to supplement nutrition.