What should lung cancer patients eat

What should lung cancer patients eat? Diet is the most important part of our lives. An unreasonable diet will bring many diseases to our bodies. Lung cancer is one of the malignant tumors with the fastest growing incidence and mortality rate and the greatest threat to people's health and life. Lung cancer patients need to be more cautious in their diet. Let's take a look at what should lung cancer patients eat?

1. Regularly eat foods that are conducive to the excretion of toxins and have detoxification effects, such as mung bean soup (porridge), red bean soup, winter melon, watermelon, etc. You can also choose foods with anti-tumor effects, such as shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, ganoderma, cordyceps, fungus, white fungus, lettuce, shepherd's purse, day lily, loofah, pumpkin, apricot, pear, bayberry, kiwi, loquat, pomegranate, etc.

2. The main psychological reactions of patients with advanced lung cancer are anxiety and depression, which can lead to varying degrees of loss of appetite. Dietary combinations should be diversified, with more menus and avoid monotony. Nutritional components should be balanced, and attention should be paid to dietary structure. Patients should not be partial to certain foods and should avoid eating the same food day after day. Pay attention to the sensory properties of food and spend more time on color, aroma and taste.

3. If you feel nauseous when eating, drop a few drops of ginger juice into your mouth before meals, or acupuncture Neiguan, or inject Weifu'an Neiguan acupoint, or take Chinese medicine to reduce nausea and vomiting. Keep your bowels open. Constipation, blocked visceral qi, and stomach qi disharmony will make you lose your appetite. Eat more crude fiber foods such as asparagus, celery, and bananas, and use laxatives or Chinese medicine retention enemas when necessary. Be careful not to be too hungry or too full, and avoid eating sticky, thick, and greasy foods that easily produce waste gas, so as not to lose your appetite

4. Eat foods that strengthen the spleen and resolve phlegm, detoxify and clear the lungs, such as millet, lotus seeds, radish, corn, long beans, etc. Eat foods that promote blood circulation and detoxify, such as eggplant, fungus, hair vegetable, celery, water chestnuts. Eat foods that replenish qi and nourish yin, such as grapes, pears, mulberries, millet, fermented black beans, American ginseng, yam, turtle, black fish, etc.

Clinically, the corresponding symptomatic food is given according to different symptoms. For example, for patients with cough and thick yellow sputum, boiled pear with Houttuynia cordata liquid, stewed Fritillaria with honey, and stir-fried asparagus can be given. For patients with cough and thin sputum, chicken soup with Stemona radix and fried dried tofu with almonds can be taken. For patients with lung cancer and blood stasis and pain, peach kernel porridge, three-shredded asparagus, soy sauce pumpkin slices, and trichosanthes cake can be taken. In short, a reasonable diet is of positive significance for cancer patients to better accept anti-tumor treatment, improve the body's immune function, improve the quality of life, prolong life, and recover from illness.