Introduction to dietary therapy for gastric cancer

Gastric cancer, also known as "gastric adenocarcinoma", is a malignant tumor originating from the epithelium. Early gastric cancer is often asymptomatic or has only mild symptoms. Let's take a closer look at this aspect.

When clinical symptoms are obvious, the disease is already in the late stage. Among the treatment methods for gastric cancer, gastric cancer surgery is the most common and the first choice for early gastric cancer treatment. However, we would like to introduce a diet therapy for gastric cancer. The dietary care of gastric cancer patients will also affect the treatment of gastric cancer.

Among the symptoms of gastric cancer, pain is also a very obvious and easily confused symptom, which is often misdiagnosed as gastritis, gastric ulcer, and gastrointestinal neurosis. When the tumor develops to a certain extent, the pain intensifies or persists. There are also nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, blood in the stool, loss of appetite, progressive weight loss, and diarrhea.

The most common complications after gastrectomy are iron deficiency anemia and vitamin B deficiency. 15% of patients have osteomalacia, and due to the lack of vitamin D, very thin bones can easily change. In some patients without obvious vitamin D deficiency, early bone tissue changes can be corrected. This makes it difficult to infer whether osteoporosis and osteomalacia occurring after gastrectomy are related to vitamin D deficiency and calcium absorption. But in any case, these patients have obvious calcium absorption disorders and vitamin D deficiency. Patients after gastrectomy should pay attention to foods that supplement calcium and vitamin D in their diet, which is beneficial to bone calcification. Animal foods such as egg yolks and liver are high in retinol. Some plant foods such as yellow and red vegetables and fruits contain beta-carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the liver.

Foods with high calcium content include various soy products, dairy products, oatmeal, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, carrots, celery, pumpkin, radish, spinach, gourd, leek, dandelion, winter melon, etc. Some hard fruits and seeds also contain high calcium, such as dried almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, etc. Fruits include oranges, etc.

The oxalic acid contained in some vegetables and spinach, amaranth, water spinach, etc. affects the absorption of calcium. For vegetables with high oxalic acid content, you can blanch them in boiling water first to dissolve some of the oxalic acid in the water, filter out the water and then stir-fry. Note that adding fermentation agents to flour, corn flour, and soybean flour and prolonging the fermentation time can hydrolyze phytic acid, increase free calcium, and make calcium easier to absorb.

When you can eat after gastric surgery, first adopt the gastrointestinal postoperative diet of six meals a day, and then use the gastric disease diet of 5 meals a day when the condition gradually recovers.

Gastric cancer dietary taboos

1. Avoid moldy, contaminated, hard, rough, high-fiber, greasy, sticky and indigestible foods.

2. Avoid overeating and forcing yourself to eat.

3. Avoid smoking and drinking.

4. Avoid overeating and forcing yourself to eat.

The above is some knowledge about gastric cancer that we have prepared for you today. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you have any other needs, you can also consult our online consulting experts of Feihua Health Network. We are always here to answer your questions. Feihua Health Network is always by your side and cares about your health issues! Feihua Health Network wishes you good health!

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