What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizing to the lungs and what are the dietary principles?

What nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients are most worried about after receiving treatment is metastasis. What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizing to the lungs? What are the dietary principles?

What are the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizing to the lungs?

The clinical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis will worsen as the disease progresses. We can divide the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis into three stages: early, middle and late.

In the early stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis, there are generally no lung symptoms, and lung tumors are usually found in most patients during routine chest X-ray examinations.

As the disease progresses to the middle stage, patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis will experience symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, and shortness of breath. When the lung metastasis becomes larger or the tumor invades the pleura and causes pleural effusion, the patient will experience shortness of breath, cough, and chest pain; mediastinal involvement and compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve will cause hoarseness; and left lung base metastasis involving the pleura will cause left upper abdominal pain.

When nasopharyngeal carcinoma lung metastasis develops to the late stage, patients will also develop pleural effusion and severe breathing difficulties, and the difficulty of treatment will be greatly increased.

What are the dietary principles?

Countermeasures for loss of appetite: 1. Eat small meals frequently and chew slowly; 2. Eat more low-fat, sweet, sour and salty foods; 3. Avoid eating hot or cold foods at the same time; 4. Do moderate exercise before meals and eat appetizers before meals.

Countermeasures for taste changes: 1. Soak the meat in sugar, vinegar, lemon or juice and boil it; 2. Choose strong seasonings; 3. Freeze meat; 4. Rinse your mouth frequently and drink more tea to avoid bad breath.

Countermeasures for diarrhea: 1. Avoid eating fat, milk and sweets; 2. Pay attention to replenishing water and salt; 3. Apples and rice soup have anti-diarrhea effects.

Countermeasures for dry mouth: 1. Cook food as much as possible to make it sticky, moist, and slippery to make it easy for patients to eat; 2. Chew fruit juice candies and watermelon cubes; 3. Drink lemon honey, chrysanthemum water and sugarcane juice.

Through the above introduction, we know that nasopharyngeal cancer has metastasized to the lungs. If this happens, you should actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and pay attention to dietary principles to help the recovery of the disease.