What are the specific diets during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

What are the diets for nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients during radiotherapy? What are they specifically?

During the radiotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, you should pay attention to eating more food to enhance the body's immunity. If the patient has cough, he should eat more ginkgo, radish and orange; if the patient has fever, he should eat more cucumber, bitter gourd and olive; if the patient has chest pain, he should eat rapeseed, loofah, almonds and crucian carp.

The details are as follows:

1. During the radiotherapy period of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the diet should be supplemented with food that produces dampness and phlegm, is sticky and heavy, and is fatty and sweet. Foods that have the effect of resolving phlegm and dispersing nodules can be selected, such as kelp, laver, asparagus, jellyfish, etc.

2. When symptoms of liver-fire such as dizziness, deafness, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, etc. appear, it is advisable to choose products that clear the liver and relieve heat, nourish yin and suppress yang to alleviate the symptoms, such as chrysanthemum instead of tea, fried cassia seed instead of coffee, consuming bitter melon tea, day lily, bitter gourd, wolfberry seedlings, plums, abalone, mustard greens, etc.

3. During radiotherapy, most patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma suffer from insufficient qi and blood, toxic fire inflammation, and extremely poor appetite. Therefore, during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the diet should stimulate appetite, and increasing intake is the fundamental measure to ensure treatment. Therefore, it is advisable to choose foods that are easy to digest, nutritious, and have good color, aroma, and flavor, such as porridge, soup, soup, and juice. The diet should be moisturizing, palatable, and aromatic, such as rock sugar and barley porridge, coriander stewed carp, fresh pomegranate, fresh black plum, tangerine, citron, pineapple, green plum, water chestnut, water chestnut, white pear, etc. Usually, holding Tibetan green fruit and fresh mountain plants in the mouth has the effects of anti-inflammatory, sterilization, clearing the throat and promoting body fluid.

4. During radiotherapy, patients with nasopharyngeal cancer should avoid spicy and hot foods, such as chili peppers, pepper, fennel, leeks, pickled mustard, mutton, dog spine, venison, sparrow meat, shrimps and crabs, etc. They should use mustard with caution and use less hot tonic medicines. They should also quit smoking and drinking to avoid generating heat and adding fire.