What should patients with esophageal cancer pay attention to in their diet

A common symptom of esophageal cancer patients is dysphagia, which causes inconvenience in eating. This dysphagia often worsens progressively. At the beginning, there may only be a choking feeling when eating dry food. After worsening, it may develop to the point where it is difficult to eat soft food, semi-liquid food, or even drink water. The inability to eat smoothly makes the patient's nutritional status worse and worse, and finally leads to cachexia. Timely and effective eating and nutritional supplementation are things that esophageal cancer patients must take seriously. How do esophageal cancer patients adjust their diet?

1. When esophageal cancer patients are diagnosed but the symptoms of dysphagia are not serious, it is necessary to take the time to supplement the patient's nutrition. The diet should be high in nutritional value and mainly digestible and absorbable, laying a foundation for the patient to receive subsequent treatment.

2. Esophageal cancer patients who experience choking should avoid forceful swallowing to avoid stimulating bleeding, spread, metastasis and stinging of local cancer tissue. They can switch to liquid or semi-liquid food as appropriate to ensure nutritional intake while avoiding adverse stimulation to local cancer tissue.

3. It is better to eat warm food. Avoid eating cold liquid food. The narrow part of the esophagus is often very irritated by cold food, which can easily cause esophageal spasm, nausea, vomiting, pain, swelling and numbness. Therefore, it is best to heat up cold noodles, milk, and egg soup that have been left for a long time, or not drink them.

4. Spicy and irritating foods can also cause esophageal spasm and make patients feel uncomfortable, so patients with esophageal cancer should avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

5. For esophageal cancer patients who are completely unable to eat, intravenous nutrition infusion is needed to maintain physical strength.

While adjusting the diet, it is necessary to pay attention to the important role of traditional Chinese medicine in regulating the yin and yang balance of esophageal cancer patients and shrinking tumors, so as to relieve the symptoms of dysphagia and ensure timely intake of nutrients.

The above are some issues that esophageal cancer patients should pay attention to in their diet that we have prepared for you today. We hope that it will be helpful to you. If you have any other needs, you can also consult our online consulting experts. We are always available to answer your questions and give you more detailed guidance.

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