What should I do if I still have a cough after four years of chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?

What should I do if I still have a cough after four years of chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

1. Coughing after chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma may be due to low body resistance and secondary infection causing discomfort in the pharynx and trachea. On the other hand, it may be due to discomfort in the pharynx caused by stimulation from chemotherapy drugs. Therefore, active symptomatic treatment is also required.

2. Patients with cough can take loratadine orally to reduce the sensitivity of the throat and trachea, add ten-flavor gentian flower granules, or cough relief capsules for cough relief, or nebulization inhalation treatment. If pharyngeal cancer patients cough repeatedly after 4 years of chemotherapy, please pay attention to whether there are other reasons.

What are the characteristics and location of nasopharyngeal cancer headache?

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, especially those with skull injuries, often experience headaches. Because of skull invasion, the pattern of headaches and the scope of skull invasion are different, and the symptoms are also different. Generally, the pain is in the pillow or temporal lobe.

Headache is a common clinical symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, mainly due to the invasion of skull bones by tumor cells. The characteristic of nasopharyngeal carcinoma headache is migraine. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in smoking addiction tumors.