How to best care for advanced lung cancer? Several care methods for advanced lung cancer

The performance of lung cancer patients in life makes people very worried. To a certain extent, some lung cancer patients cannot take care of themselves. In this case, we can see how much pain lung cancer brings to patients. We must take good care of lung cancer. So how to care for late-stage lung cancer?

Nursing methods for advanced lung cancer: pain control

1. Surface analgesia: The purpose of analgesia can be achieved by stimulating the skin around the painful area or the corresponding healthy side. The stimulation method can be massage, applying cooling analgesics, etc., or various temperatures of stimulation, or using a 65℃ hot water bottle on a wet towel for local hot compress, each time for 20 minutes, which can achieve a certain analgesic effect.

2. Attention diversion analgesia method: according to the patient's hobbies, some fast-paced music can be played, and the patient can clap along with the rhythm while appreciating it; or the patient can be asked to read some jokes, humorous novels, and tell a crosstalk for fun. The patient can also be asked to sit in a comfortable chair, close his eyes, and think about his childhood fun, or think about anything he wants to think about, for 15 minutes each time, usually 2 hours after eating, and then close his eyes and sit quietly for 2 minutes, all of which can achieve the purpose of diversion analgesia.

3. Relaxation analgesia: Relaxation of the whole body can make you feel light and comfortable, and muscle relaxation can block the pain response. Let the patient close his eyes, sigh, burp, and then bend his hips and knees to lie flat, relax his abdominal muscles and back muscles, and breathe slowly. Or let the patient close his eyes in a quiet environment and breathe in and out slowly and deeply, so that fresh air can enter the lungs to achieve the purpose of analgesia.

Nursing Methods for Advanced Lung Cancer II: Relieve Symptoms

1. Prevention of bedsores: Lung cancer patients in the advanced stage generally have poor nutritional status, sometimes with systemic edema, which makes bedsores very easy to develop, and they spread rapidly and are difficult to cure. It is particularly important to prevent bedsores. Reduce local pressure, change body positions on time, and use air rings, soft pillows, etc. to cushion the parts of the body that are prone to pressure to avoid long-term pressure. Keep the skin clean, especially for patients with incontinence, keep the bed clean and flat, and use a baking lamp to irradiate the broken skin to keep the local area dry.

2. Relieve symptoms: Fever is one of the main symptoms of lung cancer. Patients should be advised to keep warm and prevent colds to avoid pneumonia. For irritating coughs, cough suppressants can be given. When patients have persistent coughs at night, they can drink hot water to relieve irritation in the throat. If there is coughing up blood, hemostatic drugs should be given. When coughing up blood in large quantities, notify the doctor immediately, tilt the patient's head to one side, clear the blood in the mouth in time to prevent suffocation, and assist the doctor in rescue.

3. Observation and care of the condition: Lung cancer patients in the advanced stage often have metastasis of the tumor to different parts, causing different symptoms. They should be observed and given corresponding care. For example, liver and brain metastasis may cause sudden coma, convulsions, and blurred vision. Nursing staff should promptly detect and give symptomatic treatment. Bone metastasis patients should strengthen limb protection. Abdominal metastasis often causes intestinal obstruction. Patients should be observed for symptoms such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Due to weakness, fatigue, reduced activity and other reasons, patients often suffer from constipation. Enemas or laxatives should be given in time to relieve constipation. Edema may occur due to malnutrition and low plasma protein. Edema should be reduced by increasing nutrition and raising the affected limb.

Nursing methods for advanced lung cancer: Three aspects of psychological care

Patients with advanced lung cancer may experience anxiety, fear, sadness, and often feel indifferent and lonely. We must have a high degree of compassion and responsibility, and strive to create a warm and harmonious environment for patients, place them in single rooms, speak in a friendly and sincere manner, encourage patients to express their psychological feelings, provide timely guidance, and actively introduce information about the improvement of their condition to patients.

Warm reminder: When lung cancer patients are in the late stage, we must implement good nursing measures for patients, which can help patients reduce a lot of pain to a certain extent. So no matter what kind of serious disease they suffer from in life, we must take good care of them!