The correct way to care for patients with bile duct cancer

What is the correct way to care for patients with bile duct cancer? The treatment of the disease is inseparable from nursing, because for patients, daily living habits and diet often have a greater impact on the body, and treatment will also have side effects, which need to be alleviated through nursing. So what is the correct way to care for patients with bile duct cancer?

How to care for patients with bile duct cancer

1. Pay attention to dietary adjustment

Patients with bile duct cancer have difficulty digesting and absorbing food due to poor bile excretion, especially fatty foods. Patients often experience poor appetite, poor appetite, abdominal distension, and irregular bowel movements. Choose foods that are easy to digest and absorb and rich in nutrition, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, eat less or no high-fat foods, refrain from smoking and drinking, and drink plenty of water.

Closely observe changes in body temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure to prevent the occurrence of complications.

3. Pay attention to your posture when resting

When you are resting, you should maintain a comfortable lying position. Generally, it is better to lie on your left side or on your back to prevent the gallbladder from being compressed.

4. Self-regulation

Encourage patients to do what they can to divert negative emotions and adjust their mentality, such as practicing qigong, taking a walk, listening to popular science knowledge, and combining movement and stillness.

5. Psychological care

Emotional factors have an important relationship with the development of the disease, the treatment effect and the prognosis. To build confidence in overcoming the disease, medical staff should encourage patients to maintain a happy attitude, give full play to the potential of the body, enable patients to actively cooperate with the treatment and improve the effect.

6. Go to the hospital regularly to perform relevant clinical diagnostic examinations

For patients with congenital liver and gallbladder diseases, such as congenital bile duct cysts, congenital hepatopancreatic and renal cysts, bile duct stones, sclerosing cholangitis, etc., they must go to the hospital regularly for relevant clinical diagnostic examinations to comprehensively check whether they have bile duct cancer. At the same time, it is worth noting that patients with this type of tumor must also avoid smoking and drinking.

Since patients with cholangiocarcinoma are prone to symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and aversion to greasy food during the course of the disease, the following dietary care should be taken:

The dietary principles suitable for patients with bile duct cancer are:

(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.