What are the nursing tips for lung cancer patients? Introduction to the correct nursing methods for lung cancer patients

Patients with lung cancer should achieve early detection and early treatment, and not miss the best time for treatment. This will be more conducive to the recovery of the disease. However, this is not enough. What is more important is to provide good care for the patients. This double protection can help alleviate the disease.

Postoperative care for lung cancer patients is very important for their recovery after treatment, so we must do a good job of nursing. If postoperative care is not done well, it will not only affect the patient's health recovery, but it may also cause the cancer cells to spread and metastasize, causing the disease to recur. Therefore, we must take good care of the patients to achieve the effect of recovery.

Pay attention to expectoration. After lung cancer surgery, patients should actively perform respiratory rehabilitation exercises to prevent atelectasis and respiratory system infection. Within 24 to 48 hours after surgery, patients should actively cough and take deep breaths 5 to 10 times every one or two hours.

Within 3 days after surgery, nurses or family members should help patients cough and expectorate 4 to 6 times a day. The specific method is: stand on the non-surgical side of the patient, stretch out your arms, put your fingers together, and hold the patient's chest on the surgical side from the front and back chest walls, and let the patient follow you to take a deep breath. When inhaling, gently hold the incision, and then ask the patient to cough hard, press the ribs when coughing to help expectorate, and gently pat the patient's back. Repeat several times until the patient coughs up all the sputum.

On the third day after surgery, encourage and urge the patient to use the arm on the operated side to hold a cup, eat, and comb hair, and to use the hand on the operated side to touch the ear on the opposite side over the head several times a day. A rope can be tied to the end rail of the bed, and the patient can pull the rope with the arm on the operated side to practice sitting up, lying down, and getting out of bed by themselves, which can enhance the muscle tension of the shoulder, arm, and back muscles on the operated side.

Dietary conditioning is also very important for postoperative care. Patients must pay attention to their eating habits. The diet of lung cancer patients after surgery should be relatively easy to solve. At this time, it is advisable to choose milk, eggs, lean meat, animal liver, soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc., and appropriately increase the patient's food intake and frequency of eating. At the same time, it is necessary to avoid fishy and greasy foods, and avoid spicy and irritating foods such as tobacco and alcohol. For lung cancer patients with symptoms such as cough and hemoptysis, you can choose prescriptions and food prescriptions that nourish the lungs, stop coughing and hemostasis, and astringe under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and choose almonds, jellyfish, lilies, water chestnuts, lotus nodes, lotus seeds, persimmons, pears, yam, etc. Lung cancer patients can also eat foods that nourish yin and nourish, such as geckos, tortoise shell paste, turtle meat, and glutinous rice.

The above article introduces the nursing tips for lung cancer patients. We hope that our patients can pay attention to it. If patients want to control the disease, they should first actively cooperate with doctors to adopt scientific treatment methods, and secondly, do a good job of nursing in daily life.