What is the best diet for lung cancer care? What are the common symptoms of lung cancer?

Lung cancer is a common lung disease that occurs in the epithelial tissue of the bronchial mucosa. Since the incidence of this disease ranks first among similar diseases, it has attracted the attention of the general public. So what are the common symptoms of this disease? The following experts will introduce some symptoms of this disease and its dietary care. In this way, we can stay away from this disease.

1. Chest pain

(1) Occasional chest tightness, pressure or dull pain caused by tumor invasion of tissues

(2) Bronchial obstruction causes atelectasis, which results in traction on the parietal pleura and causes chest pain.

2. Anxiety

(1) Chest tightness and shortness of breath: When the tumor is in the lobar bronchus or the main bronchus orifice.

(2) Severe shortness of breath: when there is a large amount of pleural effusion or pericardial effusion.

3. Fever

(1) Inflammatory fever: due to bronchial obstruction or bronchial cavity compression.

(2) Secondary infection:

(3) Cancer fever: caused by poor efficacy of antibiotic treatment.

4. Cough

(1) When the tumor invades the bronchial wall, it is called invasive growth: it manifests as paroxysmal irritating coughing, with no sputum or only a small amount of white foamy sputum.

(2) The tumor is located near the bronchus or carina: manifested as severe choking cough.

(3) The tumor is located on the mucosa of small bronchus: there is often no cough or the cough is not obvious.

(4) The tumor completely blocks the bronchial cavity: the cough may be reduced or disappear.

5. Hemoptysis

It manifests as intermittent and repeated small amounts of blood in sputum, often with more blood than sputum, bright red in color, and occasional severe hemoptysis of varying durations.

Diet care

The diet should be light and nutritious, and avoid fried, dry, hot, fatty, sweet, cold, raw, and spicy foods. Vegetables rich in vitamins A and C should be consumed regularly, such as carrots, spinach, pumpkin, fresh peppers, etc.

1. Postoperative patients: Diet should focus on replenishing qi and blood, such as almond juice, lotus root, fresh cabbage, winter melon seeds, white radish, etc.

2. During radiotherapy, the lung yin is severely damaged, so the diet should focus on nourishing yin and blood, such as: fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, loquat, walnut kernels, wolfberry fruit, etc.

3. Chemotherapy damages both Qi and blood, so the diet should focus on replenishing Qi and blood, such as: fresh carp, white fungus, shiitake mushrooms, bird's nest, ginkgo, etc.

4. At the same time, you can choose a dietotherapy prescription based on your syndrome differentiation, as follows:

① Lung heat, phlegm and blood stasis: You can choose Almond, Fritillaria and Old Duck Soup (Ingredients: old duck, northern almond, Codonopsis, Rehmannia, Fritillaria); Snow Pear and Houttuynia Drink (Ingredients: Snow Pear, Houttuynia).

② Spleen deficiency and phlegm and dampness: You can choose lily, stomach and lung soup (ingredients: pig lungs, pig stomach, ham, lily).

③ Yin deficiency and phlegm heat: you can choose pear and pig lung soup (ingredients: pig lung, Fritillaria cirrhosa, snow pear); lily and pipa soup (ingredients: lily, pipa, fresh lotus root).

④ Deficiency of both Qi and Yin: You can choose bird's nest and white fungus porridge (Ingredients: lean pork, rice, white fungus, bird's nest); Cordyceps duck (Ingredients: duck, Cordyceps).