Nursing measures for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma has become the most worrying disease for many people. However, due to the many treatment methods currently available for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, many nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients do not know how to choose. So, what should nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients pay attention to after surgery? Let's answer it together below.

1. Dietary taboos for nasopharyngeal cancer: Avoid spicy and hot foods, such as chili peppers, pepper, fennel, leeks, pickled mustard, mutton, dog spine, venison, sparrow meat, shrimps and crabs, etc. Use mustard with caution, use less hot tonic medicines, and also quit smoking and drinking to avoid generating heat and adding fire.

2. Dietary conditioning for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Choose foods that clear away heat and detoxify, nourish yin and promote fluid production, and can be classified as food therapy for the lung and liver meridians. Regardless of the stage and the syndrome, attention should be paid to the diversity of food and the carefulness of cooking to facilitate the patient's intake of sufficient nutrients. Meals and complementary foods should use less dampness and phlegm, sticky and heavy foods, and fat and sweet foods. Foods with the effect of resolving phlegm and dispersing knots can be selected, such as kelp, laver, asparagus, jellyfish, etc. When symptoms of liver fire such as dizziness, deafness, bitter mouth, irritability, etc. occur, it is advisable to choose products that clear the liver and purge heat, nourish yin and suppress yang to alleviate the symptoms, such as chrysanthemum tea, fried cassia seeds instead of coffee, edible bitter melon tea, day lily, bitter melon, wolfberry seedlings, plums, abalone, mustard, etc.

3. Dietary conditioning methods for late stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Late stage patients are mostly suffering from insufficient qi and blood, toxic fire inflammation, and extremely poor appetite, so appetizing, stimulating appetite, and increasing intake are fundamental measures to ensure treatment. Therefore, it is advisable to choose foods that are easily digestible, nutritious, and have good color, aroma, and flavor, such as porridge, soup, soup, and juice. The diet should be moisturizing, palatable, and aromatic to remove turbidity, such as rock sugar and barley porridge, coriander stewed carp, fresh pomegranate, fresh black plum, tangerine, citron, pineapple, green plum, water chestnut, water chestnut, white pear, etc. Usually, holding Tibetan green fruit and fresh hawthorn in the mouth has the effect of anti-inflammatory, sterilization, clearing the throat and promoting body fluid.

Common symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma include retractile bloody mucus or nosebleed. Retractile bloody mucus often occurs when bloody mucus comes out of the mouth after getting up in the morning. The amount of blood is not much, and it is often ignored by patients, or they are treated as hemoptysis and go to the internal medicine or pulmonary department for treatment. Because the tumor blood vessels in the nasopharyngeal cavity are relatively fragile, and the tumor surface is often not covered by mucosa, it is easy to have bloody mucus symptoms. Retractile bloody mucus is one of the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

If you have these symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer, please go to a regular nasopharyngeal cancer hospital for a nasopharyngeal cancer examination as soon as possible to confirm whether you have nasopharyngeal cancer and get treatment early and recover soon! Through the above introduction, everyone should have some understanding of the postoperative care that nasopharyngeal cancer patients should pay attention to. Finally, I wish the patients a speedy recovery.