Dietary tips during treatment of small cell lung cancer

What are the dietary points during the treatment of small cell lung cancer? When we discover small cell lung cancer, we must choose the correct treatment method under the advice and guidance of the doctor, and eat foods that are beneficial to the disease. Today we will take a look at the dietary points during the treatment of small cell lung cancer:

Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, because fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin C, which is an anti-cancer substance that can block the formation of cancer cells; choose foods that can enhance the body's immunity and help drugs inhibit the effect of cancer cells. Choose cool, watery, easy to eat, and can nourish qi and blood and improve digestion. Fruits such as pears, kiwis, apples, wax apples, loquats and seeds such as walnuts, mung beans, pumpkin seeds, red beans, and sunflower seeds. Vegetables such as winter melon, lotus roots, radishes, Chinese cabbage, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus, water chestnuts, golden needles, cabbage, white fungus, etc. It is better to choose meat fish in moderation, followed by seafood, and then poultry and livestock meat. Fish such as sea bass, yellow croaker, grass carp, loach; seafood such as oysters and sea cucumbers; meat such as chicken, duck, beef, etc. However, seafood with high cholesterol content such as crabs and lobsters is generally not encouraged to be eaten.

The general principle of diet should be light, soft, and easy to digest and absorb. When choosing food and taking supplements, do not be impatient for success. You can start with a liquid diet, and then transition to semi-liquid food and normal food when there is no obvious discomfort.

Since small cell lung cancer consumes a lot of energy, patients should be ensured to have sufficient nutritional intake to supplement protein, sugar, vitamins, etc. The most important thing about small cell lung cancer is treatment. Only by choosing the right treatment method can the cure rate be greatly improved. At present, surgery or chemotherapy are not very effective, and they are also very harmful to the body. It is recommended to adopt a scientific combined treatment model with Chinese medicine as an auxiliary treatment, which has a good effect on controlling the disease and eliminating lesions.