What foods should not be eaten if you have nasopharyngeal cancer?

What foods should you not eat if you have nasopharyngeal cancer? For malignant tumors such as nasopharyngeal cancer, patients have many dietary taboos. You must pay attention to abstinence, especially high-iodine foods, spicy foods, and aphrodisiac foods. Avoid them to avoid worsening your condition due to overeating. Here we will introduce these foods that you should not eat.

1. 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-resolving effect and is good for benign tumors and vascular sclerosis. However, it has always been taboo for hemorrhagic diseases and cancer. Therefore, nasopharyngeal cancer patients should buy pickled vegetable salt to eat. This is a common dietary taboo for nasopharyngeal cancer.

2. Do not eat spicy food. This is also a common dietary taboo for nasopharyngeal cancer patients, such as chili peppers, ginger, pepper, raw onions, raw garlic, etc. Spicy food can easily cause blood heat to run wild. Some nasopharyngeal cancer patients can never control their condition, and the reason is that they like to add spicy seasonings when eating.

3. Do not eat aphrodisiac foods, such as mutton, dog meat, goose meat, pigeons, sparrows, etc. Many animals contain hormones. Pigs have thyroid glands in their necks, and some people may be poisoned if they eat them. Some people say that cattle and chickens are also aphrodisiacs, especially chicken butts.

The early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are summarized as follows:

1. Blood in the nose: Blood in the nose is an early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which manifests as blood in the nasal mucus, or blood in the nasal mucus sucked back from the mouth, also known as respiration blood in the nose. Blood in the nose often occurs after getting up in the morning. When the amount of blood in the nose is not large, it is often neglected by patients and mistaken for rhinitis or sinusitis, or is treated as hemoptysis in the internal medicine department.

2. Headache: When nasopharyngeal carcinoma is first diagnosed, about 70% of patients have headache symptoms. The headache symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma often manifest as migraine, pain in the back of the skull or neck. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma headaches are mostly related to cancer tissue invading the skull base bones, nerves and blood vessels.

3. Nasal congestion: Nasal congestion is another early manifestation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Most cases are unilateral. When the nasopharyngeal tumor grows, bilateral nasal congestion may occur. This is one of the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

4. Tinnitus and hearing loss: Tinnitus, stuffy ears and hearing loss are also early signs of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This symptom is caused by the nasopharyngeal carcinoma neoplasm blocking the Eustachian tube opening on the affected side. Hearing loss may also be caused by further deterioration of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and damage to the auditory nerve. Tinnitus and hearing loss are often misdiagnosed as otitis media or other diseases, which delays treatment.

5. Neck mass: Many nasopharyngeal cancer patients often seek medical attention because they accidentally feel a "lump" on their neck. This "lump" is actually an enlarged lymph node. The swollen lymph nodes in the neck of nasopharyngeal cancer patients are often misdiagnosed as inflammation. For neck masses that do not shrink after anti-inflammatory treatment or even continue to grow rapidly, especially those that are hard, have poor mobility, and are painless and fused together, you need to seek medical attention in time.

This is an introduction to the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer. If you still don’t understand something, be sure to go to the hospital to consult a doctor for help in time to cure nasopharyngeal cancer as soon as possible and stay away from the harm it brings to us. In addition, develop good living habits and avoid the threat of cancer to our bodies due to bad habits in life.