What to do if you have vomiting blood or bleeding in the late stage of liver cancer? Take these four kinds of care

What should you do if you vomit blood and have bloody diarrhea in the late stage of liver cancer? Vomiting blood and having bloody diarrhea in the late stage of liver cancer are very painful. Eighty percent of patients with late stage liver cancer die from the pain. What should you do if you vomit blood and have bloody diarrhea in the late stage of liver cancer? This is a question that both patients and their families need to know, so let's take a look at it through the article below.

What to do if you have vomiting blood or diarrhea in the late stage of liver cancer

(1) Pain care. In the late stage of liver cancer, necrosis of tumor tissue may cause pain in the tumor area. While strengthening observation of the patient's condition, nurses should also do a good job of comforting the patient. When the pain is intolerable, the location, nature, and degree of the pain should be closely observed to distinguish it from pain caused by other complications. When necessary, painkillers should be used as prescribed by the doctor.

(2) Psychological care: When liver cancer patients reach the advanced stage, they know that they are in the last stage of their lives and cannot accept the reality that they will lose their loved ones and friends and leave the world forever. In addition, due to adverse reactions during diagnosis and treatment and unbearable cancer pain, they often show great depression and anxiety, have an irregular lifestyle, poor concentration, loss of appetite and fatigue. Therefore, nurses should try their best to help patients maintain hope, accept treatment, insist on living, provide psychological care, control pain, and improve the quality of patients' final life.

(3) Basic nursing. Patients with advanced liver cancer have weak constitutions, so basic nursing care should be strengthened. For example, patients who have been bedridden for a long time should be frequently turned over and have their sitting and lying positions changed to prevent complications such as bedsores. Oral care should be done for patients with bleeding to keep their airways open and prevent vomitus from being inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation and death. For patients with severe cancer pain, in addition to timely symptomatic treatment, family members should also give patients spiritual comfort to eliminate their fear. At the same time, they should closely observe the patient's vital signs to detect critical lesions in a timely manner and take effective treatment measures in a timely manner.

(4) Diet care. In the late stage of liver cancer, attention should be paid to the color, aroma and taste of food to improve the appetite of patients with late stage liver cancer. Provide non-irritating and easily digestible food at an appropriate temperature and eat slowly. Patients with late stage liver cancer can eat some Chinese medicine porridge, such as Astragalus porridge, Codonopsis pilosula, and red dates porridge, which can nourish the spleen and replenish qi. Do not lie flat for half an hour after a meal. Patients with late stage liver cancer should not eat greasy or fried foods. Those who vomit can be given antiemetics and total intravenous nutritional support when necessary. Patients with late stage liver cancer should limit or abstain from protein when their blood ammonia is high. The main heat source for patients with late stage liver cancer is carbohydrates, and fruits and vegetables can be used.