Daily care and health care for patients with lung cancer

The daily care and health care of lung cancer patients can be said to be a science. Familiarity with these methods can reduce the distress of the disease to patients. What are the daily care and health care for lung cancer patients?

1. Lung cancer patients should often relax their whole body to relax their muscles and block the pain response. Close your eyes, sigh, then bend your hips and knees and lie flat, relax your abdominal muscles and back muscles, and breathe slowly. Or close your eyes in a quiet environment and breathe in and out slowly and deeply to allow fresh air to enter the lungs to achieve the purpose of pain relief.

Second, prevention of bedsores is also a key nursing concern for lung cancer patients. Lung cancer patients are very prone to bedsores, which spread rapidly and are difficult to cure. Therefore, the skin should be kept clean, especially for patients with incontinence. The bed should be kept clean and flat. The broken skin should be irradiated with a heat lamp to keep the area dry. 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 that causes bedsores.

3. Lung cancer patients often have metastases to different parts of the tumor, causing different symptoms, and should be observed and given corresponding care. Bone metastasis often causes intestinal obstruction in patients with abdominal metastasis, and should be observed for symptoms such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Due to weakness, fatigue, and reduced activity, patients often suffer from constipation, and should be given enema or laxatives in a timely manner to relieve constipation.