Dietary conditioning for pancreatic cancer patients

Dietary adjustment is very important for patients with pancreatic cancer. Combining dietary adjustment with comprehensive treatment of clinical programs has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on the radical cure of pancreatic cancer. Specific precautions are as follows:

1. Eat at regular times and in regular amounts, in small quantities and frequently. Food should be processed by blanching, steaming, stewing, soft-roasting and boiling.

2. After the operation, the patient should be given a fat-free liquid diet in the early stage, such as rice soup, fruit juice, vegetable juice, lotus root powder and protein water, etc. Eat small meals more often every day, generally 5 to 6 meals a day. Later, depending on the patient's condition, it can be gradually changed to a low-fat semi-liquid diet.

3. Since pancreatic cancer consumes a lot of energy, patients should be guaranteed to have adequate nutrition, generally high in protein, high in sugar, high in vitamins and low in fat.

4. Quit smoking, drinking, and avoid eating raw, cold, and irritating foods.

5. Pancreatic cancer patients should absolutely avoid tobacco, alcohol and spicy foods, and should choose more pancreas-protecting foods, such as soft-shelled turtle, mushroom, day lily, sword bean, etc. Salt intake should be limited when there is ascites, and greasy food should be avoided when there is jaundice.

6. Do not eat foods high in fat, such as fatty meat, meat floss, peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts and pastry, etc. It is suitable to eat fish, egg white, chicken, tofu, soy milk, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc.

7. Eat foods that have anti-cancer effects often, such as kohlrabi, cabbage, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and white fungus, and do not eat salted, smoked, grilled, or moldy and spoiled foods.