What should lung cancer patients pay attention to in their diet during radiotherapy? What should you pay attention to in your diet during lung cancer treatment

To treat lung cancer, it is also necessary to choose the appropriate treatment method based on the patient's economic acceptance. Experts point out that in fact, the effects of many drugs are the same, but imported drugs are more expensive. Therefore, during the treatment of lung cancer, if the economy does not allow, patients can choose more Chinese patent medicines and adjust their diet more, which will also have a good therapeutic effect.

What should lung cancer patients pay attention to during radiotherapy?

Lung cancer patients generally need radiotherapy or chemotherapy. During this treatment process, they often experience varying degrees of systemic reactions, digestive tract reactions, and bone marrow suppression reactions. At this time, if combined with appropriate nutritional therapy, it can not only ensure the smooth progress of radiotherapy, but also improve the efficacy of radiotherapy and reduce the side effects of radiotherapy. Therefore, nutritional therapy is an important measure to maintain the physical strength and anti-cancer ability of radiotherapy patients and improve the efficacy.

Diet should be arranged according to the patient's condition. Some patients are in better condition. For radiotherapy patients who can eat, food should be selected according to their physical condition, nutritional status, weather, and living habits. According to traditional Chinese medicine, radiation is a kind of heat poison. During treatment, patients often experience symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat, nausea, anorexia, dry nasopharynx, yellow urine, and less urine. Especially for malignant tumors of the head and neck, the reaction caused by radiotherapy is relatively severe, and it can also cause radiation inflammation in the mouth, throat, esophagus, etc.

Therefore, the diet should be adjusted according to different clinical symptoms. Due to the serious reaction of radiotherapy, many people have poor appetite, swallowing pain, and oral ulcers, so they should eat semi-liquid or soft food, such as nutritious and easy-to-digest porridge, noodle soup, wonton, etc. Cooking should be delicate and pay attention to the processing of color, fragrance and taste. The food should not be too hot, meat can be chopped into small pieces or stewed, and vegetables and fruits can be squeezed into juice for drinking if they cannot be swallowed.

Lung cancer patients should note that it is difficult to completely cure lung cancer, but it is not impossible, especially for early-stage lung cancer. Many clinical cases have shown that early-stage lung cancer can be cured. Lung cancer patients should not be discouraged and should find a breakthrough in the treatment of lung cancer and then continue treatment in this direction.