What should patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma pay attention to in their diet?

How should patients with nasopharyngeal cancer pay attention to their diet? What should they pay attention to?

The incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is related to heredity and nitrosamines. In addition to genetic reasons, nitrosamines are mainly found in pickled foods and are confirmed carcinogens.

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma should pay attention to:

1. Eat more foods that have anti-nasopharyngeal cancer effects, such as large-leaf vegetables, taro, konjac, cucumber, dandelion, kiwi, toad, frog, pupae, snake meat, and light vegetables. Foods that protect against the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy: figs, eggplant, walnuts, mung beans, red beans, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, persimmon, black plum, watermelon, cucumber, pumpkin, asparagus, lemon, jujube, loach, crab, crab, chicken blood, yellow catfish, eel, shark, herring, horseshoe crab, jellyfish, pig brain, sheep brain, duck blood, goose blood, mackerel, and sea cucumber.

2. Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food. Avoid dry hot foods such as leeks, onions, garlic, cinnamon and fried foods when coughing up blood. Avoid greasy food.

3. As nasopharyngeal cancer patients are affected by the disease, have heavy psychological burden, poor appetite and low resistance, their family members should be guided to encourage them to eat and give them high-protein, high-vitamin, low-fat and easily digestible foods, such as beans, milk, fungi, carrots, etc. Tell the patients to quit smoking and drinking, avoid raw, cold and hard foods, avoid spicy foods, and avoid moldy foods.

4. At the same time, guide family members to create a clean and comfortable eating environment for patients, pay attention to color and fragrance, provide patients with delicious food, and provide patients with rich nutrition. The diet should be balanced, eat more vegetables and fruits, and be less oily, light, high in protein, high in calories, high in vitamins and iron. Smoking and drinking are prohibited, and irritation of the oral and nasal mucosa is avoided. After radiotherapy, the diet is tasteless or has a smell and oral mucosal reaction. Encourage patients to eat and make small meals. When the oral reaction is severe, give a semi-liquid diet and encourage drinking more water.