What kind of diet should lung cancer patients pay attention to?

Lung cancer has less impact on the digestive system in its early stages, so dietary nutrition should be strengthened in time to enhance resistance so that the body can withstand the damage to normal physiology caused by surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. As long as the patient can accept it, high-energy foods such as protein, sugar, and fat, as well as vitamins and minerals, should be given as much as possible.

If the patient has symptoms such as coughing and hemoptysis, he should take some cough-relieving, blood-enriching and anti-cancer foods, such as lotus root, pear, lily, white fungus, dairy products, soy products, etc.

After surgery, lung cancer patients may suffer from shortness of breath, fatigue, chest tightness, sweating, etc. due to damage to the lung qi. Therefore, their diet should be mainly composed of foods that replenish qi and nourish blood, such as yam, jujube, eggs, lean meat, lotus root, cabbage, longan, pine nuts, apples, etc.

During radiotherapy, lung cancer patients will damage their lungs, causing symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, cough with little sputum, and skin burning pain. They should eat more yin-nourishing and blood-nourishing foods, and mainly fresh vegetables and fruits, such as almond juice, water chestnuts, white pears, persimmons, loquats, wolfberries, sweet oranges, monk fruit, bananas, walnuts, white fungus, lilies, tomatoes, spinach, lotus roots, honey, jellyfish skin, whitebait, etc.

During chemotherapy, lung cancer patients may suffer from severe damage to their Qi and blood due to drug toxicity, general fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and even bone marrow suppression, decreased platelets and white blood cells, etc. At this time, Qi and blood should be replenished. In addition to drug treatment, carp, pork rib soup, bird's nest, shiitake mushroom, fungus, cordyceps, astragalus, jujube, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pig skin soup, animal liver, etc. can be selected in the diet.

Patients with advanced lung cancer eat less and have poor digestion and absorption due to the progression of the disease, showing obvious symptoms of malnutrition. They should be given light, easily digestible, high-nutrition foods and eat small, frequent meals to prevent cachexia.

In general, lung cancer patients should eat foods that relieve cough and reduce phlegm, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, cool blood and stop bleeding. Avoid spicy or irritating foods, and strictly refrain from smoking and drinking. Do not eat meat, greasy foods, etc. that are easy to produce phlegm. I hope this knowledge can be helpful to everyone. If you have any other needs, you can also consult our online consulting experts at Feihua Health Network. We are always by your side to care about your health problems! Feihua Health Network wishes you good health!

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