Ways to care for pain in advanced lung cancer

All cancer patients are extremely painful in the late stage due to long-term chronic consumption, cachexia, and functional disorders caused by the spread of tumors. The care of patients with advanced tumors should include palliative treatment, symptom management, and meticulous clinical care and caring, so as to improve the quality of life of patients. Compared with the treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer, the care of patients with advanced lung cancer is also very important, which directly affects the quality of life and survival of patients with rectal cancer.

Nursing methods for advanced lung cancer: pain control

Western medicine is generally not recommended for pain relief, as it mostly works by anesthetizing nerves, which only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Some Western medicines, such as pethidine, are addictive and can cause drug resistance. It is recommended to use Chinese medicine for treatment. Pain is the main symptom of patients with advanced lung cancer and has a great impact on patients. For the control of cancer pain, the three-step analgesia plan should be correctly understood and applied:

1. Surface analgesia: The purpose of analgesia can be achieved by stimulating the skin around the painful area or the corresponding healthy side. The stimulation methods can be massage, applying cooling analgesics, etc., or various temperatures of stimulation, or using a 65℃ hot water bottle on a wet towel for local hot compress, each time for 20 minutes, which can achieve a certain analgesic effect.

2. Attention diversion analgesia method: according to the patient's hobbies, you can play some fast-paced music and let the patient clap along with the rhythm; or let the patient read some jokes, humorous novels, and tell a crosstalk for fun. You can also let the patient sit in a comfortable chair, close his eyes, and think about his childhood fun, or think about anything he wants to think about, 15 minutes each time, usually 2 hours after eating, and then close his eyes and sit quietly for 2 minutes, all of which can achieve the purpose of diversion analgesia.

3. Relaxation analgesia: Relaxation of the whole body can make you feel light and comfortable, and muscle relaxation can block the pain response. Let the patient close his eyes, sigh, burp, and then bend his hips and knees to lie flat, relax his abdominal muscles and back muscles, and breathe slowly. Or let the patient close his eyes in a quiet environment and breathe in and out slowly and deeply, so that fresh air can enter the lungs to achieve the purpose of analgesia.

Nursing Methods for Advanced Lung Cancer II: Relieve Symptoms

1. Prevention of bedsores: Lung cancer patients in the advanced stage generally have poor nutritional status, sometimes with systemic edema, which makes bedsores very easy to develop, and they spread rapidly and are difficult to cure. It is particularly important to prevent bedsores. Reduce local pressure, change body positions on time, and use air rings, soft pillows, etc. to cushion the parts of the body that are prone to pressure to avoid long-term pressure. Keep the skin clean, especially for patients with incontinence, keep the bed clean and flat, and use a baking lamp to irradiate the broken skin to keep the local area dry.

2. Relieve symptoms: Fever is one of the main symptoms of lung cancer. Patients should be advised to keep warm and prevent colds to avoid pneumonia. For irritating coughs, cough suppressants can be given. When patients have persistent coughs at night, they can drink hot water to relieve throat irritation. If there is hemoptysis, hemostatics should be given. When coughing up a lot of blood, notify the doctor immediately, tilt the patient's head to one side, clear the blood in the mouth in time to prevent suffocation, and assist the doctor in rescue. Ginsenoside Rh2 can increase the specific and nonspecific immune function of cancer patients. Strengthen the patient's physique, improve disease resistance, reduce the chance of infection, relieve the symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer, improve the quality of life of patients with advanced lung cancer, and prolong life.

3. Observation and care of the condition: Lung cancer patients in the advanced stage often have metastasis of the tumor to different parts, causing different symptoms. They should be observed and given corresponding care. For example, liver and brain metastasis may cause sudden coma, convulsions, and blurred vision. Nursing staff should promptly detect and give symptomatic treatment. Bone metastasis patients should strengthen limb protection. Abdominal metastasis often causes intestinal obstruction. Patients should be observed for symptoms such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Due to weakness, fatigue, reduced activity and other reasons, patients often suffer from constipation. Enemas or laxatives should be given in time to relieve constipation. Edema may occur due to malnutrition and low plasma protein. Edema should be reduced by increasing nutrition and raising the affected limb.

Nursing methods for advanced lung cancer: Three aspects of psychological care

Patients with advanced lung cancer may experience anxiety, fear, sadness, and often feel indifferent and lonely. We must have a high degree of compassion and responsibility, and strive to create a warm and harmonious environment for patients, place them in single rooms, speak in a friendly and sincere manner, encourage patients to express their psychological feelings, provide timely guidance, and actively introduce information about the improvement of their condition to patients.

Precautions

The nursing care for patients with advanced lung cancer is mainly to control symptoms, alleviate patients' pain, create a comfortable recuperation environment for them, and give patients the greatest spiritual support and psychological comfort.