What should patients with colon cancer eat after surgery?

Since colon cancer patients generally have poor physical condition and poor nutritional status before surgery, patients and their families hope to increase nutrition through diet to promote the patient's rapid recovery. However, if a reasonable diet is not taken into account, colon cancer may recur several years later.

Reasonable intake of fat, milk and dietary fiber is an important part of the dietary conditioning for postoperative colon cancer patients.

Reasonable fat intake

Practice has shown that a high-fat diet (especially polyunsaturated fatty acids) can promote the occurrence of intestinal tumors. Although cholesterol itself is not carcinogenic, it can promote cancer after reacting with cholelithiasis. Therefore, patients with colon tumors should not eat too much fat, and the calories provided by fat should account for less than 30% of the total calories per day. In addition, the proportion of animal and vegetable oils should be appropriate. In a day's diet, the amount of fat in the food itself, plus the amount of oil used in cooking, should be controlled below 50 grams per day. Some people are very strict about animal fat, often mainly vegetable oil, or even do not eat animal oil, which will cause excessive peroxides in the body. Therefore, patients with colon cancer should pay attention to the reasonable intake of fat after surgery.

Choosing the right milk

Milk is one of the most popular drinks. Can patients with colon cancer after surgery drink milk? There are fresh milk and milk powder. Fresh milk is mostly whole milk, and milk powder is divided into whole milk and skim milk. What kind of milk is suitable for patients with colon cancer after surgery?

According to a British research report, the vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and other substances contained in milk have anti-cancer effects. Vitamin A can cause the regression of human squamous cell carcinoma and other cell carcinomas, and stimulate the human anti-tumor immune system; vitamin C can inhibit the synthesis of endogenous nitrosamines and inhibit the effects of carcinogenic compounds on human tissue cells; calcium can change the proliferation of colon mucosa and reduce the occurrence of colon cancer. However, the fat contained in milk has a carcinogenic effect. The fat content of whole milk is 4 times that of skim milk. Therefore, drinking skim milk regularly can reduce the risk of oral, colon, bladder, lung, breast, and cervical cancer, thereby preventing the occurrence of cancer. Therefore, postoperative colon cancer patients are more suitable for drinking skim milk. But for normal people, drinking whole milk appropriately has no obvious adverse effects on the body.

Dietary fiber is essential

Postoperative colon cancer patients should pay attention to eating more vegetables rich in dietary fiber, such as celery, leek, cabbage, radish, etc. These vegetables rich in dietary fiber can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, increase the frequency of bowel movements, and remove carcinogenic and toxic substances from the feces.

If colon cancer is found to be bulging into the intestinal cavity and narrowing the intestinal cavity, the intake of dietary fiber should be controlled, because excessive intake of dietary fiber can cause intestinal obstruction. At this time, it is necessary to give easily digestible, soft semi-liquid foods, such as millet porridge, thick lotus root soup, rice soup, porridge, cornmeal porridge, egg custard, tofu brain, etc. These foods can reduce the stimulation to the intestines, pass through the intestinal cavity more smoothly, and prevent the occurrence of intestinal obstruction.

Recently, many surveys have shown that the incidence of colorectal cancer is quietly increasing with the change in people's lifestyles. Among the many influencing factors, diet plays an important role. There is evidence that among cancer patients, about 40% of patients are caused by improper diet, including colon cancer.

Since colon cancer patients generally have poor physical condition and poor nutritional status before surgery, patients and their families hope to increase nutrition through diet to promote the patient's rapid recovery. However, if a reasonable diet is not taken into account, colon cancer may recur several years later.

In short, dietary adjustment after colon cancer surgery can play a positive role in the patient's recovery, but regular follow-up and colonoscopy review cannot be ignored, which is very important for further preventing tumor metastasis and recurrence of colon cancer.

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