What should lung cancer patients eat? Introduction to the diet of lung cancer patients

Due to some unhealthy eating and living habits, many friends have suffered from lung diseases of varying degrees. If relevant treatment is not carried out in time, it is likely to further deteriorate into lung cancer. For lung cancer patients, a scientific and reasonable diet is very important for the treatment of the disease.

What should lung cancer patients eat?

First of all, we should pay attention to eating a light diet. High-calorie, high-fat, high-energy, hormone-containing drugs and foods, raw foods, etc. are prohibited. You can eat lean pork soup, bone soup; milk, soy products, fresh fruits (not hot); eat more edible fungi, such as mushrooms, fungus, enoki mushrooms, etc. The following sentences can be used as principles for daily diet: nutritious foods are black chicken, sesame oil and honey; eat more sweet potatoes and mushrooms, and stay away from moldy foods; fresh fruits and vegetables have many benefits, such as grapes, citrus fruits and carrots; black and white fungus with lotus seeds, soy milk products and garlic paste; coarse grains and fine grains are cleverly matched, and fiber foods are most suitable; celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, big red dates and coix seeds.

Treatments such as chemotherapy can reduce the patient's appetite and may also cause oral mucositis, which manifests as mucosal congestion, edema, ulcers, pain, etc. At this time, you should keep your mouth clean, brush your teeth after eating, and supplement with high-nutrition liquid or semi-liquid diets, such as lotus seed soup, snow fungus soup, milk, soy milk, crucian carp soup, etc. Avoid overheated, overly acidic and irritating foods when eating. In acute inflammation, you can hold ice cubes in your mouth to reduce inflammatory exudation. If ulcers occur, you can add 0.1 g of crushed vitamin C to 20 ml of honey and hold it in your mouth 2 to 4 times a day.

If the stomach is damaged, the gastrointestinal mucosa will be damaged, and nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, and poor appetite may occur. At this time, you can eat appetizers, such as hawthorn, lentils, yam, white radish, and mushrooms. At the same time, you should eat small meals frequently to avoid feeling full. You should chew your food slowly, do not lie flat for 1 hour after a meal, you can take a walk, do not drink water for 1 hour before chemotherapy, and if you feel nausea and vomiting while eating, you can take 3 to 5 ml of fresh ginger juice orally.

What should lung cancer patients eat?

1. It is advisable to eat more Lingzhi. Lingzhi can nourish and strengthen the body, replenish qi and blood. Modern medicine believes that Lingzhi is suitable for patients with various cancers because it can enhance the phagocytic ability of the body's reticuloendothelial system and improve the body's immune function. Lingzhi polysaccharides can accelerate the metabolism of nucleic acids and proteins, promote hematopoiesis, and enhance physical fitness. Other studies have shown that Lingzhi can counteract the damage of anti-cancer drugs to the human body and restore the number of white blood cells.

2. Eat more royal jelly. Royal jelly, also known as royal milk, is suitable for weak people with various cancers. It is rich in nutrients and can significantly enhance the disease resistance of cancer patients, enhance the body's immune function, and adjust endocrine and metabolism. Practice has shown that many cancer patients have effectively prolonged their lives by taking royal jelly for a long time. It has a unique therapeutic effect on controlling the development, spread or metastasis of cancer cells in cancer patients to a certain extent.

3. Other tonics. It is advisable to eat more tonics containing wolfberry, white tuckahoe, cordyceps, etc. Patients can also eat loach, snail, purslane, onion, winter bamboo shoots, bird's nest, adenophora, American ginseng, astragalus, crucian carp, whitebait, black carp, pig blood, pig kidney, loofah, cucumber, green vegetables, amaranth, chrysanthemum, celery, mulberry, olives, etc.

4 tips for dietary health care for lung cancer patients

Folk remedy 1: Take 30g of raw Astragalus, 12g of raw Atractylodes macrocephala, 30g of Glehnia littoralis, 12g of Asparagus cochinchinensis, 30g each of Lithospermum officinale, Lithospermum officinale, Hedyotis diffusa, 15g each of Periostracum Cicadae, Sophora flavescens, Prunella vulgaris, and Algae, 12g of Kelp, 30g of raw Arisaema, 15g of Cucurbita chinensis, and 30g of raw oyster. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Efficacy: nourishes the lungs and yin, fights cancer and disperses nodules.

Recipe 2: Take 10 almonds, 100 ml of milk, 5 jujubes, 50 grams of polished rice, 10 grams of white mulberry bark, and 3 grams of ginger. Soak the almonds in water, peel the tip, add milk to squeeze out the juice, remove the core of the jujube, slice the ginger, and set aside. First boil the white mulberry bark, ginger and jujube, fry the soup, add rice to cook porridge, add almond juice when it is almost cooked, and continue to cook until the porridge is ready, twice a day. Efficacy: relieve cough and asthma, nourish the stomach, prevent cancer and fight cancer.

Recipe 3: Take 12g each of Cortex Moutan and Radix Rehmanniae, 30g each of Houttuynia Cordata and Taraxacum, 12g each of Salvia Miltiorrhiza, Vaccaria Semen, and Chrysanthemum, 9g of Schisandrae Chrysanthemi, 15g each of Prunella Vulgaris, Seaweed, and Kelp. Decoction, 1 dose per day, morning and evening. Efficacy: nourishing yin, clearing heat, dissolving blood stasis and dispersing nodules.

Recipe 4: Take 30g of Houttuynia cordata, 15g each of Trichosanthes peel and August Fragrance, 30g each of raw Coix seeds, Cypress, Hedyotis diffusa and Lithospermum officinale, 15g of Sophora flavescens, 30g each of raw oyster and Prunella vulgaris, 12g of red peony root and 15g of Solanum nigrum. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Efficacy: softens and resolves phlegm, detoxifies and disperses stagnation.

The above content is a brief introduction to the diet related to lung cancer by experts in the treatment of lung cancer. I hope that all friends can get some help from it and develop a scientific and reasonable diet plan. Finally, I wish all patients a speedy recovery!