What kind of daily care should liver cancer patients pay attention to? Overview of daily psychological care for liver cancer

Health care in daily life is also very important for liver cancer patients. What kind of daily care should they pay attention to? Let's learn about it.

High-risk groups are advised to have relevant cancer checkups every six months. Liver cancer is no longer an incurable disease. People call liver cancer the "king of cancers" because in the 1970s, 2 to 3 out of every 10 liver cancer patients died within one month after surgery. Even if they survived the surgery, only 15% could survive for more than three years after surgery.

Now, with the development of medical technology, the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer in my country have reached the world's advanced level. The 5-year and 10-year survival rates can reach 54% to 76% and 43% to 45%. People should change their mindset. Liver cancer is no longer an "incurable disease" and they should not be too afraid of it.

Daily life nursing of patients with liver cancer

1. Maintaining a good mental state is the key to liver cancer rehabilitation. Family members and caregivers of liver cancer patients should help patients get rid of pessimism and fear, and patients should treat the disease correctly, build up confidence in defeating the disease, maintain physical and mental happiness, and rest at ease.

2. Liver cancer patients should eat light food, fresh vegetables, appropriate amount of high-quality protein, and less high-fat food. Avoid eating crude fiber food to prevent puncturing varicose esophageal veins and causing vomiting blood.

3. Patients with liver cancer and signs of hepatic coma should limit protein intake; those with edema and ascites should strictly control sodium salt and fluid intake and eat a salt-free or low-salt diet.

4. Avoid using gravity to pressurize the liver of liver cancer patients to prevent liver rupture and cause massive bleeding in the liver.

5. Nursing staff should carefully observe the color, nature and amount of the patient's urine and feces. If the stool is black, be alert to digestive tract bleeding caused by liver cancer; if the urine volume is less than usual, there may be ascites, and the doctor should be notified in time for examination and treatment.

Psychological manifestations and nursing strategies of liver cancer patients:

1. Suspicious patients, once they learn that they have cancer, will be restless, seek confirmation from many sources, and become nervous and suspicious. Therefore, medical staff should be cautious in their words and deeds, find out the purpose of the patient's inquiry, answer the patient's questions scientifically and tactfully, and avoid speaking directly to reduce the patient's degree of shock, so as to prevent the patient from losing confidence in treatment.

2. Fear Patients know that they have cancer and often show fear, despair, loss of hope for life, and worry about their loved ones. Nurses should sympathize with patients, give comfort, and encourage patients to actively accept treatment to avoid delaying the disease. They should also emphasize the role of psychology in the disease and encourage patients to accept treatment with a positive attitude.

3. When patients are diagnosed with cancer, they will feel pessimistic and disappointed, with more disappointment than expectation, depression, and unhappiness. At this time, nurses should show care, explain that the disease is being treated, and emphasize that a good mood is conducive to the prognosis of the disease.

4. After a period of time, the patient begins to accept the fact that he has the disease, his mood gradually stabilizes, and he places hope on treatment. Nurses should apply "suggestion" therapy in a timely manner, publicize the significance of treatment, and eliminate unfavorable factors for treatment, such as social factors, family factors, etc.

5. Disappointment or optimism. Because everyone's physique and degree of adaptation are different, the treatment effect is also different. Some patients have their condition under control, are good at adjusting their mood, and live in a harmonious emotional environment. Patients are in an optimistic state for a long time. Some gradually deteriorate, have a large response to treatment, a heavy economic burden, are physically exhausted, and are mentally depressed, waiting for death passively. Nurses should analyze the reasons for negative patients, provide psychological comfort, adjust the patient's mentality in time, and provide life guidance; for optimistic patients, they should provide rehabilitation guidance and pay attention to psychological changes so as to find problems and solve them in time.