How to care for lung cancer after surgery? Introduction to postoperative care for lung cancer

As the saying goes, "three parts treatment and seven parts care." So we must always remember this when facing a disease like lung cancer. The treatment of lung cancer is not a matter of overnight, so after the operation, we must pay attention to our own care. At the same time, the patient's family must also supervise the patient's postoperative recuperation to prevent the disease from recurring.

Postoperative care for lung cancer is crucial. Patients are very concerned about diet. It is best to inhibit the growth of cancer cells and be beneficial to the recovery of the body. Lung cancer diet should avoid fishy and greasy food, spicy food, tobacco, alcohol and other irritating foods. Careful care after surgery and lung cancer diet adjustment will speed up the improvement of the condition. When choosing food and taking supplements, do not rush for success. You can start with a liquid diet. When there is no obvious discomfort, transition to semi-liquid food and normal food to speed up the patient's recovery.

After surgery, lung cancer patients should avoid irritating foods, except garlic, because it contains allicin, which can fight cancer. After surgery, the diet is determined according to the condition. Some patients can eat on the second day after surgery, but they should start with clear water. The food should be light, soft, and easy to digest and absorb. Because surgical trauma can cause dysfunction of the digestive system, do not rush for success when choosing food and taking supplements. Patients after radiotherapy have dry mouth and tongue, so they should avoid spicy and warm foods, and eat foods that nourish yin and promote body fluid production, such as pears, watermelons, lilies, fungus, green vegetables, soy products, lean meat, eggs, river fish, etc. Cui Haiyin, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jinan Military Region General Hospital

Lung cancer patients have chest pain, shortness of breath, and severe coughs. Eating marine fish and shrimps may make coughs and shortness of breath worse. For example, some patients have dry mouth and sore throat and constipation. Taking mutton, dog meat, leeks, longan meat, peppers, and onions will make dry mouth and sore throat worse and constipation more severe. Of course, some lung cancer patients with weak yang and no obvious evil qi can also take some mutton and other hot foods, because mutton warms the kidney and helps yang, which is conducive to the recovery of the patient.

Diet for lung cancer patients after surgery: After lung cancer surgery, patients will experience symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, chest tightness, and night sweats. The diet should focus on replenishing qi and nourishing blood, such as yam, lotus root, jujube, eggs, lean meat, cabbage, longan, pine nuts, apples, etc.

Dietary conditioning for lung cancer patients during radiation therapy: Choose foods that nourish yin and blood, mainly fresh vegetables and juicy fruits, such as: almonds, water chestnuts, white pears, persimmons, loquats, wolfberries, sweet oranges, monk fruit, bananas, walnut meat, white fungus, lilies, tomatoes, spinach, honey, donkey skin paste, jellyfish, whitebait, etc.

Dietary adjustments for lung cancer patients during chemotherapy: Lung cancer patients may experience symptoms such as general fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and even bone marrow suppression and leukopenia during chemotherapy. They should eat more spine soup, pork rib soup, carp soup, coriander and crucian carp soup, bird's nest, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, jujube, sunflower seeds, skinned peanuts, donkey skin paste, dishes made from pig skin, eggs, milk, etc.

Eat more alkaline foods to improve your acidic constitution and supplement the organic nutrients necessary for the human body, so that you can starve cancer cells to death and restore your immunity. Weakly acidic foods: white rice, peanuts, beer, wine, fried tofu, seaweed, clams, octopus, loach. Weakly alkaline foods: red beans, radishes, apples, cabbage, onions, tofu, etc. Moderately alkaline foods: dried radish, soybeans, carrots, tomatoes, bananas, oranges, pumpkins, strawberries, egg whites, dried plums, lemons, spinach, etc. Strongly alkaline foods: chamagu, grapes, tea, etc.