How to eat for bile duct cancer

Cholangiocarcinoma is a kind of existing disease. We don't have a better way to cure this severe disease. Faced with such a cruel reality, what we can do is to give patients more appropriate care. So for patients with bile duct cancer, what should we pay attention to in diet? Let us explain it below.

Cholangiocarcinoma refers to a malignant tumor of the extrahepatic bile duct that originates from the confluence of the left and right hepatic ducts to the lower end of the common bile duct. Cholangiocarcinoma can be divided into three types: hilar cholangiocarcinoma or upper cholangiocarcinoma, middle cholangiocarcinoma, and lower cholangiocarcinoma. Cholangiocarcinoma can occur in various parts of the extrahepatic bile duct, among which the proximal hilar cholangiocarcinoma is the most common.

Drinking a glass of milk every night or eating a fried egg for breakfast can make the gallbladder contract and empty regularly, and reduce the residence time of bile in the gallbladder. The dietary precautions for bile duct cancer are as follows:

Foods suitable for bile duct cancer diet

(1) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-biliary and bile duct cancer effects: shark fin, chicken gizzard, buckwheat, coix seed, tofu dregs, and Hericium erinaceus.

(2) It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-infection and anti-cancer effects: buckwheat, mung beans, rapeseed, toon, taro, scallion, bitter melon, lily, water spinach, ground ear, carp, water snake, shrimp, loach, jellyfish, yellow catfish, and needle fish.

(3) It is advisable to eat foods that have a choleretic and laxative effect: water spinach, burdock root, figs, walnuts, sesame seeds, day lily, and sea cucumber.

(4) People with poor appetite should eat bayberry, yam, coix seed, radish, catfish, and broccoli.

(5) For abdominal pain and jaundice, please refer to the relevant content on liver cancer.

Foods to avoid in bile duct cancer diet

(1) Avoid animal fat and greasy food.

(2) Avoid overeating or overeating.

(3) Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food.

(4) Avoid moldy, fried, smoked, or pickled foods.

(5) Avoid hard, sticky and indigestible foods.

Patients with bile duct cancer have no appetite, especially during chemotherapy. Due to the stimulation of chemotherapy drugs in the gastrointestinal tract, they have no appetite. Active guidance from family members can improve the patient's appetite, effectively reduce the side effects of treatment, and have a good stabilizing effect on the decrease in white blood cells during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, they must eat a reasonable diet and pay attention to their diet.