How to take care of liver cancer at home? Detailed description of the dietary principles for liver cancer patients

The treatment of liver cancer is a systematic process, and the survival time mainly depends on the spread of cancer tissue, the patient's physical function, and his or her own psychological quality. In addition, the survival time of patients varies with different treatment methods. For patients with advanced liver cancer, the tumor has already metastasized and spread in the body. Most experts estimate that the survival time for patients is generally about a few months, but there are still many patients who insist on treatment and their survival time has been extended by 3-5 years.

Home care for patients with liver cancer

Care content

Comfort the patient psychologically. Liver cancer patients are irritable and their families should understand and tolerate them. Keep the living environment clean and comfortable, and the room should be ventilated. Basic nursing care should achieve "six cleanliness" (oral cavity, face, hair, hand and foot skin, perineum, bed unit cleaning), "five preventions" (prevent bedsores, prevent orthostatic hypotension, prevent respiratory system infections, prevent cross infection, prevent urinary system infections), "three no's" (no feces, no falling from bed, no scalding), and "one management" (dietary management). Medication safety.

Follow the doctor's advice to take medicine on time and in the right amount, and keep the medicine well. Provide health education, guide patients to take care of themselves, correct bad living habits, not smoke, not drink, improve self-care ability, avoid the adverse effects of harmful stressors, and help them maintain mental and physical balance. Encourage patients to participate in normal life, take part in easy work, learn appropriately, and re-establish their own survival value in work and study.

Diet care

Liver cancer patients often have poor appetite and do not want to eat, so during the nursing process, we should focus on improving the patient's appetite and encourage them to eat. Give them high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin, low-fat foods. Limit the intake of animal oils. Diversify the diet and pay attention to food matching to ensure that the food is colorful, fragrant, and tasty, so as to increase appetite.

Eating should be mainly soft food that is easy to digest, avoid hard and spicy foods, eat less fried foods, and eat small meals frequently. Avoid irritating foods and foods high in plant fiber to avoid causing rupture and bleeding of the esophageal or gastric veins in patients with cirrhosis. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, use fruit juice drinks, and supplement vitamins. Patients with fever should drink more water to help dissipate heat. Those who vomit frequently should temporarily fast to avoid food irritating the stomach, increasing the number of vomiting, and consuming physical strength. Patients with ascites should limit sodium intake and give a low-salt or salt-free diet. Patients in the early stage of hepatic coma or hepatic coma should be given a low-protein diet with a total daily protein of 20-40g. Try to use animal proteins with high physiological value, such as milk, eggs, lean meat, etc.

Dietary principles for liver cancer

1. Diet should replenish vitality

Eat some food that contains calories and vitamins. This should be noted. Life must have three elements to survive. The first is the life ability and vitality of life. The second is the basic conditions of suitable environmental temperature and body temperature balance for life. The third is the nutrients needed to maintain vitality and achieve internal movement. Only with these three conditions can life survive. Vitality is a prerequisite for human nutrient absorption. Without vitality, nutrient absorption is out of the question. Fresh vegetables, fresh meat and animal offal have strong vitality. Liver cancer patients must eat fresh vegetables, fresh meat products, and eat more fresh animal offal. Leftovers must not be eaten to replenish vitality.

2. Diet should first comply with the law of warmth and coolness

Do not eat anything that is too cold or too hot to avoid irritating the body. Keep the body neither too cold nor too hot. The balance of temperature and coolness in the human body is the basic guarantee of life, the basic guarantee of health, and the fundamental guarantee of disease prevention. Once the body loses the balance of temperature and coolness, various diseases will follow and will occur when encountering inducements. Most liver cancer patients have damp heat and blood stasis constitutions, so eating some blood-activating foods and some cooling foods at the same time is more in line with the patient's constitution.

3. Eat a balanced diet

It is best to have a balanced diet. Do not take too many nutritional supplements, and eat more vegetables. The more types of food you eat, the more balanced your nutrition will be. For example, our human body needs hundreds of amino acids, and the amount of amino acids we take in from food is far from enough. At present, we humans can produce about 20 kinds of amino acids. Our human body can also synthesize many kinds of amino acids to meet its own needs. There are also hundreds of other trace elements. A diversified diet will absorb more nutrients.