How to treat tongue cancer with diet

When it comes to tongue cancer, I believe many people don't know much about it. Tongue cancer is very harmful. It not only threatens the patient's life safety at all times, but also affects the patient's normal diet and speech. Therefore, it is really painful to have tongue cancer. Tongue cancer mainly occurs in the oral cavity and has special requirements for diet. Especially after surgery and chemotherapy, you should pay more attention to whether the diet is reasonable. Let's learn about the diet for tongue cancer.

1. The recipe structure should be reasonable. The diet care for tongue cancer must not be simple and single. It should be diverse, new and well-structured. When making a recipe, try to combine lightness with high nutritional quality, soft and easy to digest with rich vitamins, freshness with cold, hot, warm and neutral taste, and total supply with cold, hot, deficiency and excess syndrome of the patient's internal organs. It is best to do it under the guidance of a doctor.

2. The cooking and eating methods should be particular, and efforts should be made to improve the patient's appetite. In the selection, preparation, and cooking of food, good sensory properties of food should be created, and efforts should be made in taste, color, fragrance, and shape to suit and satisfy the patient's taste preferences and habits as much as possible. It is also necessary to adopt small meals, coarse and fine combinations, liquid food, alternating soft and hard food, and sweet and salty food according to the patient's digestive ability. Create a pleasant atmosphere when eating, and try to eat with relatives. Before eating, try to avoid adverse stimulation such as oil smoke. During the interval between radiotherapy and chemotherapy, seize the favorable opportunity when the patient's appetite improves to supplement nutrition.

3. Total calories. The total calories that tongue cancer patients take in from food every day should not be lower than the minimum requirement of normal people, that is, more than 10 kilojoules per day. Because tongue cancer patients have high protein decomposition, reduced anabolism, and a negative nitrogen balance state of insufficient nutrition, the demand for protein should be increased. Generally, the daily protein intake should reach more than 1.5 grams of body weight, and should be mainly high-quality protein, such as eggs, milk, meat, soy products, etc.

4. Nutrition should be relatively balanced. According to the needs of the patient, each nutrient should be appropriate and complete. In addition to sufficient high-quality protein intake, low-fat and moderate carbohydrates should be the main ingredients. Pay attention to supplementing vitamins, inorganic salts, cellulose, etc., which can be obtained from fresh vegetables and fruits.

Because tongue cancer patients will experience obvious pain and the movement of the tongue will be greatly affected, patients will be troubled by this. It is necessary to remind everyone that if there are symptoms related to tongue cancer, do not think it does not matter and ignore it. Timely treatment is conducive to the improvement of the condition.