What are the daily care precautions for lung cancer patients? Five things to pay attention to in the daily care of lung cancer patients

Among various diseases, everyone knows that lung cancer is a tumor disease that is difficult to cure. If you suffer from this disease, it will not only endanger the patient's health, but also endanger the patient's life in severe cases. So, after choosing a reasonable treatment, how to carry out daily care? 1. Pay attention to keeping warm. Fever is one of the main symptoms of lung cancer. Patients should be advised to keep warm and prevent colds to avoid pneumonia. For irritating coughs, cough suppressants can be given. When patients cough continuously at night, they can drink hot water to relieve irritation in the throat. If there is hemoptysis, hemostatics should be given. When coughing up a lot of blood, notify the doctor immediately, and at the same time make the patient's head tilt to one side, clear the blood in the mouth in time to prevent suffocation, and assist the doctor in rescue. 2. Prevention of bedsores. The nutritional status of patients with advanced lung cancer is generally poor, sometimes combined with systemic edema, which is very easy to produce bedsores, and rapidly expands and is difficult to cure. It is particularly important to prevent bedsores. Reduce local pressure, change body positions on time, and use air rings, soft pillows, etc. to pad the parts of the body that are prone to pressure to avoid long-term pressure. Keep the skin clean, especially for patients with incontinence, keep the bed clean and flat, use a baking lamp to irradiate the broken skin and keep the area dry. 3. Condition observation and care Patients with advanced lung cancer often have metastases to different parts of the tumor, causing different symptoms, and should pay attention to observation and provide corresponding care. For example, if the liver or brain metastases occur, sudden coma, convulsions, and blurred vision may occur. Nursing staff should promptly detect and give symptomatic treatment. Bone metastasis patients should strengthen limb protection. Abdominal metastasis often causes intestinal obstruction. Patients should be observed for symptoms such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Due to weakness, fatigue, and reduced activity, patients often suffer from constipation, and should be given enema or laxatives in time to relieve constipation. Edema can occur due to malnutrition and low plasma protein, and edema should be reduced by increasing nutrition and raising the affected limb. 4. Psychological care Patients with advanced lung cancer may have anxiety, fear, sadness, etc., and often feel indifferent and lonely. We should have a high degree of sympathy and responsibility, and strive to create a warm and harmonious recuperation environment for patients, place them in single wards, speak kindly, be sincere, encourage patients to express their psychological feelings, guide them in time, and actively introduce information about the improvement of their condition to patients. 5. Adjust diet and exercise appropriately Patients will become weak after a long illness, and consume more calories and protein, which can be regulated by supplementing dietary nutrition and water. Lung cancer patients should be properly equipped with semi-liquid diets rich in high calories, high protein, and high vitamins for each meal, such as eggs, milk, lean meat, chicken, rice, pasta, rice porridge, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc. Absolutely quit smoking and prohibit excessive drinking, and avoid eating stimulating things. In addition to a reasonable and balanced diet every day, you should maintain good living habits, get up and eat on time, and do moderate activities, such as walking, qigong, gardening, fishing, boxing, gymnastics, etc., to enhance the body's disease resistance, but do not exercise to the point of fatigue, and prevent colds. For many lung cancer patients, some small ways in daily life can cause irreparable damage to the body. So our lung cancer experts here kindly remind you that in daily life, you must develop healthy living habits, do a good job of preventing various diseases, and avoid life being endangered by diseases!