Dietary considerations for elderly people with esophageal cancer

There is an inseparable relationship between esophageal cancer in the elderly and diet. In terms of diet, strengthening medicinal diet, dietary therapy and other auxiliary treatment measures will provide a higher success rate for the treatment of esophageal cancer. Because the elderly's body is not easy to recover, they can only use dietary auxiliary treatment methods, which have a good effect. The main measures are:

1) Promote a diet that encourages people to chew food slowly and eat both meat and vegetables, and correct bad habits such as eating too fast, eating too hot, eating too hard, or eating too coarse food; eat more fresh vegetables and fruits to ensure the supply of vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A, and trace elements such as molybdenum, zinc, and copper; do not eat food contaminated by mold or moldy or rotten food; quit smoking and avoid strong alcohol.

2) For elderly patients with esophageal cancer, effective medicine and food can be combined to make medicated diet. Diet therapy can improve symptoms such as dysphagia, chest tightness, hiccups, and constipation. Commonly used effective foods include walnut kernels, mulberries, black sesame seeds, honey, sea cucumbers, almonds, tangerine cakes, sword beans, figs, kiwis, lychees, pears, black-bone chickens, crucian carps, and turtles.

3) During the recovery period after esophageal cancer surgery, elderly people can eat porridge, such as coix seed porridge, red date glutinous rice, lotus seed, longan and wolfberry porridge, etc. They can also eat yogurt, eggs, soy products, etc. Those with poor appetite can eat fresh hawthorn and fresh pomegranate, or tangerine peel, ginger, chicken gizzards, etc. to make soup with food to increase appetite.