What should you not eat after recovering from nasopharyngeal cancer and what should you pay attention to?

Like other common diseases, patients with nasopharyngeal cancer also need to pay attention to diet and lifestyle habits. So, what should you not eat after recovering from nasopharyngeal cancer? What should you pay attention to in your daily life?

What can't you eat after recovering from nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food. Avoid hot and dry food such as leek, onion, garlic, cinnamon and fried food when coughing up blood.

2. Avoid greasy food.

3. During radiotherapy, the salivary glands and mucous membranes are damaged by radiation, so you can eat cool and non-irritating food.

4. The temperature of the food should not be too hot. The meat should be chopped.

5. If you cannot swallow vegetables or fruits, you can squeeze them into juice and drink them.

6. Eat less hot foods such as red ginseng, longan, and mutton, otherwise it is easy to cause symptoms such as internal heat and nose bleeding.

7. In view of the reports that tea can offset radiation and ginseng can enhance the body's immune function, do not drink tea during radiotherapy. Instead, use white ginseng and American ginseng instead.

What do you usually pay attention to?

Tell patients and their families the importance of oral hygiene. Brush your teeth with a soft brush when you get up in the morning, before going to bed, and after meals, and rinse your mouth with clean water or saline before meals. Tell patients to rinse their mouths with 1% licorice solution when their mouths are dry, or to take Radix Ophiopogonis, Flos Lonicerae, and Radix Phellodendri. Practice opening your mouth to the maximum extent possible every day, and then practice chewing, puffing your cheeks, smiling, and holding your breath 5 to 6 times a day, 5 to 15 minutes a time. You can chew gum 3 to 5 times a day. Practice tongue extension, retraction, curling, etc. several times a day, and bend and rotate your head left and right. Move slowly and don't move too much. Inform patients and their families to continue the rehabilitation training they received during hospitalization after discharge. Maintain the integrity of the local skin. Tell patients and their families that the local skin still needs to be protected for at least one month after radiotherapy.