How to take care of bile duct cancer

How should we take care of patients with bile duct cancer? As modern people have irregular lifestyles and diets, digestive system malignancies such as gastric cancer and bile duct cancer are becoming more and more common, which has a great impact on our health and life. So how should we take care of 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.

2. Close observation

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.

In summary: After listening to the above brief introduction of how to care for bile duct cancer patients, bile duct cancer patients now have some understanding of how to care for bile duct cancer patients. Therefore, we remind bile duct cancer patients to go to a regular surgical hospital for examination and treatment in time, because only a regular surgical hospital will be safer!