How to care for lung cancer patients? 5 key nursing measures for lung cancer

Lung cancer is not very rare in our daily life, but it is difficult for many patients to detect it with their naked eyes, and it also requires long-term treatment. Relevant experts pointed out that once lung cancer occurs, it must be treated in time, and the patient himself also needs to take corresponding care. The following is a detailed introduction.

1. Talk to family and friends.

Choose one or a few of your most trusted friends and be honest with them about your condition and your concerns. If you pretend that you feel fine and that everything is normal, you will only increase your stress and prevent you from expressing your true feelings, which will only make things worse. On the contrary, even if you just say "You know, I feel scared," it will help to start a very practical and helpful conversation, which is one of the lung cancer care.

2. Quit smoking.

The relationship between smoking and lung cancer is very close, and I believe you are already very aware of this. Lung cancer care, including quitting smoking, will not only benefit you in the treatment of tumors, but will also bring you more benefits: improve appetite; increase weight; reduce sputum; increase oxygen intake and maintain good physical fitness; improve smell and taste.

3. Write a mood diary.

When writing a diary, you don’t need to suppress your emotions. You can directly express your feelings and moods through a diary, even if it is depression and worry. In this way, both pleasant and unpleasant moods can be vented, which can effectively relieve your stress and is also one of the lung cancer care.

4. Maintain good eating habits.

In the process of fighting cancer, lung cancer care and maintaining good eating habits are very important, but compared with normal circumstances, this is often more difficult. In the process of fighting tumors, your body often consumes more energy, and chemotherapy and radiotherapy will also cause damage to normal cells, requiring the supplementation of certain special nutrients. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatments will affect your appetite, so how to ensure that you can take in enough nutrients is very important. These are lung cancer care measures.

5. Pulmonary function exercise, formulate corresponding preoperative pulmonary function exercise plan.

For example: use a strap to tie the patient's chest, with the tightness being appropriate so that the patient does not feel suffocated or have difficulty breathing, to increase the patient's tolerance and stress resistance to surgery; ladder climbing and squatting training: gradually perform exercises in the early morning and evening to increase the activity of the respiratory muscles and diaphragm. These are all precautions before lung cancer surgery.

Therefore, the lungs are an important part of human health, and patients must take good care of them. Of course, for more detailed questions, you can click online consultation, and the experts will give you a satisfactory answer online. In addition, the patients themselves should also take corresponding nursing measures according to the above introduction and strive for early recovery.