How should liver cancer patients eat after treatment? Introduction to the dietary matching principles for liver cancer patients

Nutritional care must be taken seriously before, during and after anti-tumor treatment. Only with reasonable and adequate nutrition can the patient's resistance be improved, so dietary care is an important part of liver cancer treatment. Appropriate dietary care should be given according to different ages, genders, diseases and treatment measures.

1. Nutrition should be comprehensive and cooking should be reasonable. Diet should be fresh, easy to digest, and rich in nutrition to ensure the patient's heat and nutritional requirements. For example, eggs, fresh fish, lean meat, yogurt, soy milk, etc. can be used to supplement vitamins; fresh vegetables and fruits can be used to supplement vitamins; at the same time, attention should be paid to choosing appropriate fats to help absorb fat-soluble vitamins; auxiliary therapeutic foods such as turtles and mushrooms can also be used. The processing methods of various foods should be paid attention to. Liver cancer patients often have accompanying symptoms such as indigestion and anorexia. Therefore, food should be boiled, steamed, and stewed. Try not to eat hard and crisp foods such as fried and deep-fried foods. For liver cancer patients, hard, crisp, and spicy foods can cause serious complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding.

2. Nutrition after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy

(1) After surgery, patients should be given a high-protein, high-vitamin diet, such as eggs, pork liver, yellow croaker, sea bass, mandarin fish, pomegranate, banana, carrot, lemon, watermelon, etc.

(2) After radiotherapy, it is advisable to eat foods that nourish the body and stimulate the appetite, such as yam, lentils, water chestnuts, pears, winter melon, grapes, wild rice stems, sweet oranges, eggs, quail eggs, and bird's nests.

(3) After chemotherapy, it is advisable to eat foods that nourish the qi and spleen, nourish the blood and detoxify, such as stewed soft-shelled turtle, crucian carp, animal liver, goose blood, eggs, winter melon, red dates, coix seed, yam, radish, lotus root, orange, tomato, soybean sprouts, etc.

(4) In the late stage of liver cancer, it is advisable to eat light, soft, easy to digest, appetite-stimulating, nutritious foods, such as red beans, yam, coix seed, winter melon, watermelon, crucian carp, carrots, white radish, cucumber, bitter melon, etc.