What are the symptoms of mid-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma and what are the nursing measures for patients

Some diseases are sometimes very hidden and not so exposed. So, what are the mid-stage symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma? What are the patient care measures? The following is an introduction for you.

1. When the disease progresses to the middle stage, the patient's sputum or nasal discharge will have blood streaks. Clinical investigations show that most NPC patients have blood streaks in their nasal discharge in the middle stage, flowing out of one nostril or spitting out from the nasal inhalation port. This is because NPC tissue contains a large number of new blood vessels, the tumor grows rapidly, and necrosis and ulcers often occur. In the early stage, the damage area is not large, and bleeding is often rare. There are only some blood streaks or blood clots in the nasal discharge, and in the late stage, it may cause heavy bleeding.

2. As the disease progresses, patients will experience symptoms of gradual nasal congestion, further endangering their normal life. In the early stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, patients' nasal symptoms are not obvious. As the tumor grows, it gradually worsens. At night, due to changes in posture, nasal congestion is more severe. Some patients' nostrils will have a peculiar smell of bloody mucous secretions.

3. In the early stage of the disease, the patient's hearing will be affected to a certain extent. As the disease progresses to the middle stage, due to the gradual increase of the tumor, tinnitus and otitis media compress the passage of the pharynx and ear - the Eustachian tube, causing tinnitus and ear plugging, some causing hearing impairment, and some causing otitis media. These ear symptoms often attract the attention of patients first, but few people appear alone in the early stage.

What are the patient's nursing care measures?

1. Psychological care: Provide comfort and explanation to patients and their families, care and show consideration for patients, meet their reasonable needs, and enable them to cooperate with radiotherapy and chemotherapy and maintain a good mental state.

2. Introduce knowledge and information about radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and require them to adhere to treatment to reduce the chance of recurrence.

3. Strengthen nutrition and try to provide a high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, easily digestible, low-residue diet to increase tolerance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Through the above introduction of the mid-term symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the nursing measures for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, everyone has mastered it. In daily life, we should detect and eliminate patients as early as possible.