What to eat during breast cancer chemotherapy

Breast cancer has become one of the diseases that seriously endangers women's health in modern society. Traditional breast cancer is mainly treated with chemotherapy combined with surgery. Certain side effects are inevitable during breast cancer chemotherapy. A reasonable diet can alleviate or even eliminate the reactions during breast cancer chemotherapy. So what should breast cancer patients eat during chemotherapy?

Breast cancer patients should eat more of the following foods during chemotherapy:

It is advisable to supplement high-protein foods, such as milk, lean meat, fish, animal liver, red dates, red beans, etc. If you have loss of appetite and indigestion, you can add spleen-strengthening and appetizing foods, such as hawthorn, white lentils, radish, mushrooms, tangerine peel, etc. You can eat appropriate foods that soothe the stomach and stop vomiting, and nourish qi and blood, such as fresh ginger juice, sugarcane juice, fresh fruit juice, bergamot, tomato, raw coix seed, polished rice, white lentils, ganoderma lucidum, black fungus, sunflower seeds, etc.

Yin-nourishing and spleen-strengthening porridge: It can relieve symptoms such as loss of appetite, dry mouth, and fatigue during chemotherapy. The preparation method is to add 20 grams of longan, 20 grams of lotus seeds, 50 grams of yam, 50 grams of coix seeds, and polished rice, add water and cook porridge. Try not to eat the food you usually like to eat within 24 hours of the start of chemotherapy, because this will affect your feeling about this food in the future. The diet requires low fat, high carbohydrates, a small amount of high-quality protein, with easily digestible chicken, fish and eggs, etc. You can appropriately supplement protein powder and less oil.

Adequate nutrition: Breast cancer patients are generally weak. During chemotherapy, they should appropriately increase their protein and sugar intake, eat less high-fat and high-cholesterol foods, especially high-protein intake, and eat more lean pork, beef, chicken or fish; these are very helpful for breast cancer chemotherapy.

Warm reminder: Breast cancer can be treated with Chinese medicine in combination with chemotherapy. The auxiliary treatment of Chinese medicine and the improvement of diet can enhance people's immunity, improve sleep, control further deterioration of the disease, directly inhibit the formation of cancer cells, and induce differentiation and apoptosis of cancer cells.