How to care for liver cancer in the late stage? Pay attention to these aspects when caring for liver cancer in the late stage

How to care for advanced liver cancer?

Diet care

In the late stage of liver cancer, attention should be paid to the color, aroma and taste of food to improve the appetite of patients with late stage liver cancer. Provide non-irritating and easily digestible food at an appropriate temperature and eat slowly. Patients with late stage liver cancer can eat some Chinese medicine porridge, such as Astragalus porridge, Codonopsis pilosula, and red dates porridge, which can nourish the spleen and replenish qi. Do not lie flat for half an hour after a meal. Patients with late stage liver cancer are forbidden to eat greasy or fried food. Those who vomit can be given antiemetics, and total intravenous nutritional support can be given when necessary. Patients with late stage liver cancer should limit or abstain from protein when blood ammonia is high. The heat source of patients with late stage liver cancer is mainly carbohydrates, and fruits, vegetables, etc. can be selected.

Pain care

Pain care: In the late stage of liver cancer, necrosis of tumor tissue may cause pain in the tumor area. While strengthening the observation of the patient's condition, nurses should also do a good job of comforting the patient. When the pain is intolerable, the location, nature, and degree of the pain should be closely observed to distinguish it from pain caused by other complications. If necessary, painkillers should be used as prescribed by the doctor.

Psychological care

Liver cancer patients in the late stage know that they are in the last stage of their lives and cannot accept the reality that they will lose their loved ones and friends and leave the world forever. In addition, due to adverse reactions during diagnosis and treatment and unbearable cancer pain, they often show great depression and anxiety, irregular lifestyle, poor concentration, loss of appetite and fatigue. Therefore, nurses should try their best to enable patients to maintain hope, accept treatment, insist on living, provide psychological care, control pain, and improve the quality of patients in the last stage of their lives.