Dietary precautions for lung cancer patients during the recovery period

Lung cancer patients need to pay special attention to their diet, especially those in the recovery period. So, what are the dietary taboos for lung cancer patients?

1. Suitable food

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that can enhance the body's immunity and resist lung cancer, such as water chestnuts, oysters, jellyfish, yellow croaker, crab, horseshoe crab, cockle, sea cucumber, coix seed, sweet almonds, green beans, mushrooms, and walnuts.

(2) Patients with fever should eat winter melon, bitter melon, cucumber, lettuce, eggplant, lily, amaranth, shepherd's purse, water spinach, purslane, pineapple, pear, persimmon, orange, lemon, olive, mulberry, water chestnut, duck, and herring.

(3) Patients with cough and phlegm should eat radish, almonds, ginkgo, radish, tangerine peel, loquat, olives, tangerine cake, jellyfish, water chestnut, kelp, seaweed, winter melon, loofah, sesame, figs, pine nuts, walnuts, mussels, monk fruit, peach, orange, grapefruit, etc.

(4) Patients with hemoptysis should eat green plum, lotus root, sugar cane, pear, cotton, jellyfish, sea cucumber, lotus seed, water chestnut, kelp, mustard, black bean, tofu, shepherd's purse, eggplant, milk, crucian carp, turtle, grass carp, squid, yellow croaker, oysters, and mussels.

(5) Foods that can reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy include goose blood, mushrooms, longan, walnuts, soft-shelled turtle, eel, water shield, day lily, jujube, sunflower seeds, apples, mung beans, soybeans, red beans, shrimp, and silver beans.

2. Foods that lung cancer patients should not eat

(1) Avoid hot foods such as frying and grilling.

(2) Avoid greasy, sticky, and phlegm-producing foods.

(3) Avoid spicy foods, such as leeks, ginger, onions, garlic, peppers, chili peppers, cinnamon, etc.