How to care for advanced liver cancer? Four key points to know about advanced liver cancer care

Everyone knows that liver cancer is a difficult disease to treat, and advanced liver cancer is even more difficult to treat. In the advanced stage of liver cancer, many patients do not know how to deal with it, and some patients simply give up treatment. In fact, for patients with advanced liver cancer, good care is particularly important. Let’s take a look at how to care for advanced liver cancer?

How to care for advanced liver cancer?

1. Psychological care. In the late stage of liver cancer, patients know that they are in the last stage of their lives and cannot accept the reality that they will lose their relatives 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 help patients maintain hope, accept treatment, insist on living, provide psychological care, control pain, and improve the quality of patients' last stage of life.

2. 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 according to the doctor's orders.

3. Diet care. In the late stage of liver cancer, attention should be paid to the color, aroma and taste of food, so as to improve the appetite of patients with late stage liver cancer. Give non-irritating and easily digestible food, the temperature should be appropriate, and the eating speed should be slow. 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 fast protein when blood ammonia is high. The heat source of patients with late stage liver cancer is mainly carbohydrates, and fruits and vegetables can be selected.

4. Basic nursing. Patients with advanced liver cancer have weak constitutions, so basic nursing work should be strengthened. For example, patients who have been bedridden for a long time should be turned over frequently, and their sitting and lying positions should be changed to prevent the occurrence of complications such as bedsores. Oral care should be done for patients with bleeding to keep the airway open and prevent vomit from being inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation and death. For patients with severe cancer pain, in addition to timely symptomatic treatment, family members should also give patients spiritual comfort to eliminate their fear. At the same time, they should closely observe the patient's vital signs to detect critical lesions in a timely manner and take effective treatment measures in a timely manner.