What kind of care is needed for small cell lung cancer in daily life

What kind of care is needed for small cell lung cancer in daily life? The treatment of small cell lung cancer is a long and arduous process. In addition to actively cooperating with the doctor's treatment, the patient's care cannot be ignored in daily life. Let's take a look at it today:

Fever is one of the main symptoms of small cell lung cancer. Patients should be advised to keep warm and prevent colds to avoid pneumonia. For irritating coughs, cough suppressants can be given. When patients have persistent coughs at night, they can drink hot water to relieve irritation in the throat. If there is coughing up blood, hemostatic drugs should be given. When coughing up blood in large quantities, notify the doctor immediately, and tilt the patient's head to one side, clear the blood in the mouth in time to prevent suffocation, and assist the doctor in rescue.

Patients often have tumors metastasized to different parts of the body, causing different symptoms, and should be carefully observed and given appropriate care. For example, if the patient has liver or brain metastasis, he or she may suddenly become unconscious, have convulsions, or have blurred vision. Nurses should promptly detect the disease and provide symptomatic treatment.

Edema may occur due to malnutrition and low plasma protein. Edema should be reduced by increasing nutrition and raising the patient's limbs. Patients generally have poor nutritional status, sometimes with systemic edema, which can easily lead to bedsores, which spread rapidly and are difficult to cure. It is particularly important to prevent bedsores. Reduce local pressure, change body positions on time, and use air rings, soft pillows, etc. to cushion the parts of the body that are prone to pressure to avoid long-term pressure. Keep the skin clean, especially for patients with incontinence, keep the bed clean and flat, and use a baking lamp to irradiate the broken skin to keep the local area dry.

Patients may experience anxiety, fear, sadness and other psychological symptoms, and often feel indifferent and lonely. We must have a high degree of compassion and responsibility, and strive to create a warm and harmonious recuperation environment for patients, place them in single rooms, speak in a friendly and sincere manner, encourage patients to express their psychological feelings, provide timely guidance, and actively introduce information about the improvement of their condition to patients.