How to better care for liver cancer patients?

The most important thing for liver cancer patients is to receive treatment in time. After treatment, they must provide good nursing care to better help liver cancer patients recover their health. Most family members know nothing about nursing. In order to help everyone, we will learn about it in detail below.

1. Correctly understand the disease

Hepatitis viruses are undoubtedly the initiating factors of the disease, but the patient's mental state and the strength of his immune function are the determining factors for the course of the disease. Therefore, if you have liver disease, don't be too nervous or afraid. As long as you maintain a stable mind and emotions, pay attention to rest, strengthen nutrition, and receive reasonable treatment, most liver diseases can be completely cured without leaving any sequelae.

2. Pay attention to emotional regulation

Liver disease is a disease with multiple symptoms and too many treatment courses. In particular, liver disease often recurs and multiple symptoms plague the body. At this time, it is common for patients to become nervous, irritable, restless, unable to eat, unable to sleep at night, and seek medical treatment everywhere. However, if this continues for a long time, it will inevitably affect the improvement of the condition. Therefore, every liver disease patient should first learn to control his or her emotions psychologically.

Several ways to help you nourish your liver

1. Stay away from alcohol and drugs: Alcohol is extremely harmful to liver function. People with liver damage must quit drinking. In addition, many people are used to buying over-the-counter painkillers from pharmacies when they are unwell, but these drugs may contain acetaminophen, which may produce some toxic metabolites after being metabolized by the liver, causing liver damage.

2. Drink more lemon water: Water helps speed up metabolism, expel impurities and toxins from the body, and reduce the burden on the liver. Drink a glass of warm boiled water every day after getting up, which can wake up the body's functions. You can try adding lemon to the water. The acidity of lemon can promote the liver to produce bile, which is beneficial for the body's detoxification. Drink 8 to 10 cups a day, 300 ml each time.

3. Supplement minerals: Make sure you get enough minerals in your daily diet, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium and manganese. For patients with cirrhosis, doctors will also recommend that they supplement more vitamins and minerals than usual to activate liver function.

Kind tips:

1. Provide psychological comfort to the patient. Liver cancer patients are irritable and easily angered, and their family members should be understanding and tolerant.

2. Keep the living environment clean and comfortable, and ensure cross ventilation in the room.

3. Basic nursing care should include: six cleanliness (oral cavity, face, hair, skin of hands and feet, perineum, and bed unit cleaning), five preventions (prevention of bedsores, prevention of orthostatic hypotension, prevention of respiratory system infection, prevention of sexual infection, and prevention of urinary system infection), three no's (no feces, no falling from bed, no burns), and one management (dietary management).

4. Use medication safely. Take medication on time and in the prescribed dosage according to the doctor's instructions, and keep the medication properly.

5. Provide health education and guide patients to take care of themselves, correct bad living habits, not smoke, not drink, improve self-care ability, avoid the adverse effects caused by harmful stressors, and help them maintain mental and physical balance.

In order to challenge liver cancer, in addition to medical efforts, it is also very important to establish a correct concept of prevention and treatment. The improvement in the survival rate of liver cancer treatment is largely due to early diagnosis. Cancer prevention physical examination is suitable for everyone. Nowadays, people's annual routine physical examinations are ordinary types, while cancer prevention physical examinations are a highly professional technology and a targeted special examination.

The subjects of cancer prevention physical examinations are still healthy people. The detection methods are safe and harmless to the body, simple and easy to use, and relatively cheap. Now some people do not go for examinations because they think "how terrible it will be if cancer is found", but they do not know that it is really terrible to have cancer but fail to find it early! Small details in life can prevent cancer. The onset of any cancer is not overnight.