Self-care for gastric cancer patients

Gastric cancer is a disease that not only harms the patient's physical and mental health, affects the patient's normal life and work, but also poses a great threat to the patient's life. Therefore, the disease must be discovered and treated in time, and the patient's self-care must be done well to minimize the pain and restore health. The nursing methods are as follows:

1. Gastric cancer patients should eat small and frequent meals, at regular times and quantitatively, and avoid overeating. They can adopt a semi-liquid diet with less residue, and eat soft rice with less residue during the recovery period. If the calorie intake is insufficient, a combination of dry and liquid meals can be used to supplement the nutrition to achieve a balanced diet.

2. In dietary care, in order to prevent gastric cancer patients from suffering from anemia or malnutrition, it is necessary to increase the intake of foods rich in protein and heme iron, such as lean meat, fish, chicken, liver, kidney and other offal, and pay attention to the supplementation of vitamin C and B vitamins, including vitamin B12 and folic acid, and increase the amount of fresh vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, eggplants, red dates, and green leafy vegetables, to provide vitamin C and help the absorption of iron.

3. Take good care of yourself for gastric cancer patients and eat more meat with short and soft fibers, such as chicken, fish, tender beef, lean pork, shrimp, etc. Gastric cancer patients have low gastric acid secretion and should be given original juice soup, rice porridge, sour food, fragrant condiments and appropriate amounts of sweet and sour food, which are rich in nitrogen extracts.