What to do if you have severe dry mouth after one year of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer

What should I do if I have severe dry mouth after one year of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Dry mouth may occur after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The symptoms can be relieved by medication. You should drink more water, eat more fruits and vegetables, avoid spicy and irritating foods, avoid infections caused by getting angry, pay more attention to rest, avoid staying up late, avoid fatigue, and choose the appropriate treatment method according to your symptoms.

2. Severe dry mouth after one year of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer is due to the damage to the patient's salivary glands caused by radiotherapy, which affects the amount of saliva secretion. You can drink lemon juice, plums and other acidic foods to stimulate saliva secretion and relieve the symptoms of dry mouth. It is difficult to recover from dry mouth symptoms after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer.

What are the symptoms and signs of nasopharyngeal cancer?

Clinically, patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma usually have early symptoms such as bloody nasal discharge and bloody sputum, as well as neck lumps which are mostly painless. They are often accompanied by clinical symptoms such as headache, fever, and tinnitus. Some patients also have swollen lymph nodes in the neck and hearing loss. A small number of patients also experience double vision and esotropia.

The main signs of nasopharyngeal cancer are unilateral nasal congestion, runny nose or blood in sputum and nasal mucus when coughing. Some patients may also experience dizziness, headache, fever and tinnitus.

Symptoms in the nose include respiration of blood in the nose or blood in the nose. If the nasopharyngeal carcinoma gradually grows larger, the patient will have symptoms such as nasal congestion.