How should I take care of myself if I have liver cancer? What are the common symptoms of liver cancer?

How should we take care of liver cancer in daily life? The care of various cancer tumors is different. What aspects should we pay special attention to in the care of liver cancer? In addition, what are the symptoms of liver cancer? Next, let's introduce the daily care and symptoms of liver cancer.

Daily care for liver cancer

Appropriate exercise: Liver cancer patients who can return to work should do so as much as possible (it must be light physical labor). This is because patients are idle at home all day and will always think of themselves as patients, which increases their mental burden and is not conducive to recovery. Appropriate exercise and returning to work with co-workers can help them let go of their mental burden to a certain extent, which is beneficial to their health.

Keep a good attitude: Patients should pay attention to maintaining a relatively calm mentality in daily life and actively cooperate with doctors' treatment. As the saying goes, "Anger hurts the liver," so liver cancer patients should pay attention to avoiding excessive emotional fluctuations in daily life. Suffering from primary liver cancer does not mean that you can't do anything. You can do what you can according to your actual situation. You can do some light housework or some light sports activities such as walking, practicing Tai Chi, practicing Qigong, etc., but you should not feel tired as a principle, and you must avoid heavy labor and intense sports activities. Because emotional excitement, heavy physical labor and intense activities may induce hemorrhage in the plica of liver cancer nodules and endanger life. You should know that hemorrhage in the plica of liver cancer nodules is one of the most common causes of death in liver cancer patients.

Prevent colds: Cancer patients often have low immunity and resistance, and are prone to colds. Colds are very likely to cause infections, which can cause cancer cells to recur, metastasize, and spread. Therefore, preventing colds is particularly important for cancer patients. A large number of clinical practices have shown that as long as cancer patients do not catch colds, their condition will not worsen, metastasize, deteriorate, or become fatal. In clinical practice, only 5% of patients actually die from tumors, and the other 95% die from complications.

Prevent fatigue: Cancer is a wasting disease. Cancer cells constantly erode normal cells in the body, causing the patient's body to fail. Therefore, avoiding physical and mental exhaustion and damage is an important part of patient health care.

However, what are the symptoms of liver cancer?

Common symptoms of liver cancer

Central necrosis of cold-heat type liver cancer can cause fever, and patients with advanced liver cancer may have irregular moderate fever.

Internal bleeding or rupture of the surface of the abdominal-type liver cancer can cause acute abdominal pain or intra-abdominal hemorrhage. Common rupture of liver cancer at the top of the right lobe of the liver causes pain in the right lower chest, right shoulder and back, and the pain worsens when turning the body position or breathing. Those that penetrate into the abdominal cavity may cause hemorrhagic shock.

Digestive tract symptoms: upper abdominal distension, aggravated distension after eating, stomach discomfort, or dull pain in the stomach area, sometimes mistaken for stomach problems, resulting in delayed treatment. Umbilical pain, loose stools, or increased bowel movements, sometimes mistaken for enteritis, need to be checked. Discomfort in the right upper abdomen, sometimes aggravated after eating greasy food, mistaken for cholecystitis, also need to be distinguished.

Systemic symptoms: such as weight loss, fatigue, low fever in the afternoon, and night sweats.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that you should be more patient when caring for liver cancer patients.