What foods can you eat after gastric cancer surgery? These three points need to be noted

Patients with severe gastric cancer need to choose surgical treatment. After gastrectomy, the body is relatively weak and loses a lot of nutrients. Attention should be paid to dietary conditioning after gastric cancer surgery. Many foods are nutritious and can help the body gradually recover. Patients are suitable for eating semi-liquid food after surgery, supplement more vitamins, and avoid eating foods that stimulate gastric juice secretion or damage the gastric mucosa.

There are many things to pay attention to in diet after gastric cancer surgery. Patients and their families need to pay attention to their condition and make reasonable dietary adjustments in time under the doctor's arrangement. You must pay attention to your diet after surgery and supplement your nutrition, which will help the patient's body recover quickly. This is a problem that gastric cancer patients and their families are more concerned about after surgery. So, what foods can gastric cancer patients eat after surgery?
1. Semi-liquid food <br/>One week after gastrectomy, it is suitable to eat semi-liquid food, which is conducive to digestion and absorption, provides nutrition for the human body, and helps to improve immune function. Such as noodles, wontons, millet and red date porridge, stewed tofu, steamed fish, goat milk yam soup, ginseng and yellow chicken soup.
2. Pay attention to vitamin supplementation
1. Eat more cucumbers . Cucumbers contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. If you have cancer fever or inflammatory fever, eating cucumbers can clear away heat and detoxify. Cancer patients with ascites, pleural effusion, and systemic edema can benefit from eating cucumbers.
2. Eat more tomatoes . Tomatoes contain a lot of vitamin C. During cooking, the vitamin C contained in tomatoes will not be destroyed by high temperature. They also contain carotene, lycopene, and B vitamins, which can supplement nutrients for the human body.
3. Dietary precautions <br/>Foods that are easy to produce gas, high in starch content, and foods rich in crude fiber, such as soybeans, black beans, potatoes, various beans, celery, onions, etc. These foods are not easy to digest and absorb and will increase the patient's gastrointestinal burden. Also, do not eat irritating foods, such as peppers, tobacco, alcohol, garlic, etc., to prevent stimulating gastric juice and damaging the gastric mucosa. Acidic foods should also be eaten less. Fried, hot and irritating foods can also cause discomfort to patients, so they are not suitable for eating.
To sum up, family members and patients still need to pay attention to diet after gastric cancer resection surgery. Adjusting their mentality and cooperating with the doctor's treatment can improve the quality of life.