How should we care for lung cancer patients? Here are some nursing methods for lung cancer patients

Generally speaking, for lung cancer patients, family members should understand the care methods for their patients. The patients themselves have weak constitutions, so they must pay attention to the care. Reasonable care is also a kind of spiritual encouragement to the patients. However, how to take good care of the patients is also necessary to understand. Here we will introduce to you the care methods for lung cancer patients.

1. Do not eat salted, smoked, grilled or fried foods, especially burnt or charred foods.

Adhere to a low-fat diet and eat lean meat, eggs and yogurt regularly. Food should be kept fresh and moldy or spoiled food should not be eaten.

2. Keep bowel movements smooth. Patients with constipation should eat foods rich in fiber and drink some honey every day.

3 Eat nutritious dried fruits and seeds regularly, such as sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, dried apricots, almonds, raisins, etc.

Nursing work

1. Pay attention to psychological care

The mental burden of cancer patients is imaginable, and they are prone to pessimism and world-weariness. First of all, patients should be encouraged to face the disease with strength, establish a firm belief in defeating cancer, and avoid negative emotions. On the other hand, the patient's friends and relatives should give more encouragement. Family members should observe and communicate with the patient at any time, pay attention to the patient's psychological activities, always care for and comfort the patient, listen patiently to the patient's complaints, make the patient feel the warmth of family affection, avoid emotional fluctuations, eliminate worries, keep a good mood, arrange daily life reasonably, and maintain the patient's hope of survival.

2. Breathing function exercises

Patients who have undergone lung cancer resection should perform respiratory function exercises as soon as possible, do chest expansion exercises, and take deep breaths at the same time to increase ventilation function through chest expansion movements; do abdominal breathing, inhale deeply while holding the chest up, and exhale deeply while contracting the abdomen to improve the effective capacity of the chest cavity and respiratory function. This is an item that should be paid attention to in the nursing methods for lung cancer patients.

3. Follow-up observation of the condition

After receiving treatment, patients should go to the hospital for regular checkups. Generally, chest X-ray and liver B-ultrasound examinations are performed every other month after surgery. As time goes by, the interval between checkups can be gradually extended. Do not be afraid of seeing a doctor. If there is any problem, take the initiative to go to the hospital for examination. Do not blindly take medicine or secret prescriptions for treatment.

The above introduces the nursing methods for lung cancer patients. These are the nursing methods for lung cancer patients for now. If you have lung cancer, daily nursing work is very important. Correct and effective care is very helpful for the recovery of lung cancer patients.