What foods should patients with nasopharyngeal cancer avoid eating

The human stomach is not a trash can, and you can't eat anything casually after you are sick. Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer who have undergone chemotherapy must avoid certain foods, which is a key to recovery. So, what can't nasopharyngeal cancer patients eat after chemotherapy? Let's take a look at the experts' introduction:

Generally, patients with nasopharyngeal cancer cannot eat mustard greens, fennel, garlic sprouts, green onions, onions, bell peppers, and lychees, which have a warming effect; cannot eat eggplant, lentils, cowpeas, snow peas, and edamame, which have a qi-moving effect; cannot eat cauliflower, lily, polygonatum, and lemon, which have a yin-nourishing effect; cannot eat Ganoderma lucidum, winter bamboo shoots, seaweed, kumquats, grapefruits, water chestnuts, and peanuts, which have a phlegm-resolving effect; cannot eat loofah, bracken, aloe vera, peaches, chestnuts, and figs, which have a blood-activating effect; and cannot eat leeks and walnuts, which have a yang-enhancing effect.

Don't eat spicy food, and don't add these spices when cooking. For example: chili peppers, ginger, pepper, raw onions, raw garlic, etc. Spicy food can easily cause blood heat to run wild. Some cancer patients can't control their condition. The reason is that the food they eat at home, in restaurants, and on the street are all spicy. How to make food delicious? Don't use these spicy things to enhance the flavor, use soup. The simplest soup is to boil carp and chicken.

Do not eat high-iodine foods. If nasopharyngeal cancer patients eat seafood, such as crabs, shrimps, scaleless fish, kelp, etc., including iodized foods and iodized salt, the tumor will rupture. Iodine is widely present in seawater. Iodine can promote the dissolution of soft tissues, so it has a phlegm-removing effect and is beneficial for benign tumors and vascular sclerosis. However, it has always been contraindicated for hemorrhagic diseases and cancer. Therefore, cancer patients should buy pickled vegetable salt to eat.

The above is the relevant introduction made by the experts. For patients who have hair loss, gastrointestinal dysfunction, persistent low-grade fever, nausea, and vomiting after multiple rounds of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it is recommended to take TCM treatment in time. Through the consolidation treatment of TCM, recurrence and metastasis can be prevented, and the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be eliminated.