Five major symptoms of liver cancer, detailed description of the dietary conditioning methods that liver cancer patients should pay attention to

As the number of patients with liver disease increases, the number of patients with liver cancer also increases. Liver cancer has now become our second most common cancer, second only to lung cancer. This cancer often manifests as weight loss, fatigue, and severe pain. Once you are sick, the chance of recovery is small, so you should pay attention to your life and stay away from liver disease and liver cancer.

Five symptoms of liver cancer

1. Weight loss and fatigue

This symptom often occurs in the middle and late stages of liver cancer. It may be that tumor metabolites cause changes in the body's biochemical metabolism, reduced food intake, and cachexia in severe cases.

2. Fever

The fever caused by liver cancer is generally around 37.5'C~38℃, occasionally reaching above 39℃, with irregular fever pattern, often without chills. Fever is more common in the afternoon, and sometimes remittent high fever can also be seen. Fever can be caused by tumor necrosis or its metabolites.

3. Digestive tract symptoms

Common symptoms include decreased appetite, upper abdominal fullness after meals, or even nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.

4. Pain

This is a common symptom in patients with liver cancer. The pain is generally located in the liver area. The liver pain in patients with middle and late stage liver cancer is generally located in the right rib or under the xiphoid process. The nature of the pain is mostly persistent dull pain, dull pain or stabbing pain. A small number of patients may also have special manifestations of pain. Patients with liver cancer may also have referred pain in other parts of the body. The pain area of ​​some patients is located in the upper and middle abdomen, which is mostly caused by left lobe liver cancer, but is sometimes misdiagnosed as stomach disease and delayed treatment. Some patients may experience right shoulder pain, which is clinically more common in tumors in the right lobe close to the diaphragm, because it involves the diaphragm and causes referred pain in the right shoulder, which is easily misdiagnosed as periarthritis of the shoulder.

Dietary conditioning methods for patients with liver cancer

1. Eat soft food that is easy to digest, avoid hard and spicy food, eat less fried food, and eat small and frequent meals. Avoid irritating food and food with high plant fiber content, so as not to cause rupture and bleeding of esophageal or gastric veins in patients with liver cirrhosis. This is one of the dietary points for liver cancer patients.

2. Eat a diversified diet and pay attention to the combination of foods to ensure that they are colorful, fragrant and tasty, so as to increase appetite. This is also the key point of the diet for liver cancer patients.

3. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, drink fruit juice and supplement vitamins.

4. Provide high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, low-fat food. Limit the intake of animal oil.

5. Patients with fever should drink more water to help dissipate heat.

6. For patients with ascites, sodium intake should be restricted and a low-salt or salt-free diet should be given.

7. People who vomit frequently should temporarily fast to prevent food from irritating the stomach, increasing the frequency of vomiting, and wasting physical strength. These are the key points of dietary conditioning for liver cancer patients.

Five dietary taboos for liver cancer

1. Moldy food: Aflatoxin in moldy food is a liver cancer-causing substance. The shortest time it takes to cause cancer is only 24 weeks. Therefore, food should be properly stored and discarded immediately once it is moldy, especially soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, etc., which must not be eaten. In addition, peanut oil should not be stored for a long time. If it is found to have a rancid smell, it should not be eaten. Otherwise, it will not only taste bad, but more importantly, it will cause cancer.

2. Pickles: Pickles, pickles, salted fish and other pickles are refreshing and appetizing. As the weather gets hotter, people lose their appetite and prefer to eat pickles with rice. However, pickles contain a large amount of nitrosamines, which have been shown to be related to liver cancer. It is best not to eat them or eat less. And remember, you must pickle them thoroughly before eating.

3. Drinking: Long-term drinking will cause alcohol to digest the gastric mucosa. Once the gastric cells are injured, the toxic substances in the food will be easily absorbed by the stomach, which can easily cause alcoholic hepatitis, damage the liver's detoxification function, and even cause alcoholic cirrhosis, which is a risk factor for liver cancer. If moldy peanuts are used as a snack, the possibility of inducing liver cancer will be greater. Dr. Dong recommends that adult men should not drink more than 2 cups of alcohol per day, and women should not drink more than 1 cup.

4. Spoiled animal and vegetable oils: Stale oils contain the chemical component malondialdehyde, which can generate polymers and react with proteins and DNA in the human body, causing the protein structure to mutate, causing the cells with mutated proteins to lose their normal functions and transform into early cancer cells. In addition, malondialdehyde polymers can hinder the replication of DNA and accelerate the aging process of people. Therefore, animal and vegetable oils should not be stored for too long, and oils that have deteriorated and have a rancid smell should not be eaten. Foods fried with rancid oils not only taste bad, but more importantly, they can cause cancer and shorten people's lifespan.

5. Spicy food: People with liver cancer should be careful not to eat spicy and irritating food, because it will cause great stimulation to the body. Because patients with primary liver cancer are prone to portal vein cancer thrombus, causing portal hypertension, esophageal and gastric varices, once the diet is improper, it may cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients, endangering their lives. In addition, we also want to remind everyone: patients with primary liver cancer must pay attention to food hygiene. Unclean food can cause intestinal infection, which may eventually induce serious complications that endanger life.