What should I pay attention to after pituitary tumor surgery

The occurrence of diseases often catches us off guard and deals a heavy blow to our happy lives. Pituitary tumors have a great impact on the patient's body. Postoperative care for pituitary tumors is very important. Improper care or diet often greatly reduces the effectiveness of treatment, and some may even worsen the condition and cause surgery failure. So, what should we pay attention to after pituitary tumor surgery?

Pituitary tumor is a very serious disease. Surgery can only be performed in the early stages of the tumor, when the tumor is small and in the appropriate location. Therefore, there are some precautions for postoperative diet for patients with pituitary tumors. You must not eat immediately after surgery for pituitary tumors. You should wait six hours after waking up from anesthesia before eating a small amount of liquid food, and then slowly switch to soft food. Patients who remain in a coma for 24 hours after surgery should be fed nasogastric feeding. The problem with nasogastric feeding is that you should eat small meals frequently, and the food must be high in calories, nutrition, protein, and salt. The temperature of the food should be 38-40℃, and the head of the bed should be raised 15-30°. Before nasogastric feeding, make sure that the nasogastric feeding tube is in the stomach to prevent the tube from coming out.

In the early stage of the pituitary tumor surgery last night, the patient's gastrointestinal function had not fully recovered. What are the precautions for the diet of pituitary tumor patients after surgery? The patient should try to drink less milk and eat less sugar and other gas-producing foods to avoid intestinal bloating. And if brown liquid is drawn during the examination, it means that there is bleeding in the digestive tract. You should stop eating and infuse ice liquid until the bleeding stops before eating again.

Patients who have undergone pituitary tumor surgery should eat foods rich in vitamins to ensure that the daily vitamin intake can not only meet normal physiological needs but also store some in the body. They should also eat high-protein and high-calorie foods. For high-protein foods, you can eat more beans, eggs, meat, fish, and animal livers. For high-calorie foods, you can eat some sesame seeds, sugars, and high-fat foods. After surgery, the patient's intracranial pressure is very high, so he often feels nauseous.

The above is an introduction to what to pay attention to after pituitary tumor surgery. We also know that diet has a great impact on our body, and we also know that surgery is very harmful to the patient's body, so we need to know what precautions should be taken in the diet of patients with pituitary tumors after surgery, because this is not only important for the patient's physical recovery, but also very important for the treatment of pituitary tumors. Therefore, we must strictly require patients to eat.