Dietary precautions for patients with lung cancer bone metastasis

Lung cancer is a malignant tumor of the respiratory system with a high morbidity and mortality rate. Lung cancer is prone to bone metastasis, which aggravates the patient's condition. During the recuperation process, special attention should be paid to dietary adjustments to distinguish which are beneficial and which are harmful to the patient.

Suitable food for patients with lung cancer bone metastasis:

1. It is advisable to eat more foods that can enhance the body's immunity and resist lung cancer, such as coix seed, sweet almonds, water chestnuts, oysters, jellyfish, yellow croaker, sea turtle, crab, horseshoe crab, clam, sea cucumber, Poria cocos, yam, jujube, black-necked snake, green beans, shiitake mushrooms, walnuts, and soft-shelled turtle.

2. People with cough and excessive phlegm should eat ginkgo, radish, mustard greens, almonds, loquats, olives, tangerine cakes, jellyfish, water chestnuts, kelp, seaweed, winter melon, loofah, sesame, figs, pine nuts, walnuts, monk fruit, peaches, oranges, and grapefruits.

3. Patients with cancer fever should eat more foods that clear away heat and promote salivation, such as cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon, lettuce, eggplant, lily, amaranth, shepherd's purse, agar, purslane, watermelon, pineapple, pear, lemon, olive, mulberry, water chestnut, duck, and herring.

4. People with severe hemoptysis should eat green plum, lotus root, sugar cane, pear, cotton, jellyfish, sea cucumber, lotus seeds, water chestnut, kelp, mustard, black beans, tofu, shepherd's purse, eggplant, milk, crucian carp, turtle, grass carp, squid, yellow croaker, soft-shelled turtle, oysters, and mussels.

5. Foods that can reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as goose blood, mushrooms, sharks, longans, eels, walnuts, soft-shelled turtles, turtles, kiwis, water shield, day lily, jujubes, sunflower seeds, apples, carp, mung beans, soybeans, red beans, shrimps, crabs, silver beans, etc.

6. As the saying goes, "bone nourishes bone". Patients with bone metastasis may experience pain in the limbs, joints, etc. They can drink bone soup with added pain-relieving Chinese medicine as a tonic.

Contraindicated foods for patients with lung cancer bone metastasis:

1. Avoid tobacco, alcohol and other foods that may irritate the respiratory and digestive tract mucosa.

2. Avoid spicy and irritating foods, such as onions, garlic, leeks, ginger, peppers, chili peppers, cinnamon, etc.

3. Avoid hot foods such as frying, grilling, and smoking.

4. Avoid greasy, sticky and phlegm-producing foods. Also try to eat less foods that are too sour and sweet and that can easily produce phlegm and hinder the stomach, such as black plums.