How to provide dietary care for patients with thyroid cancer

How should patients with thyroid cancer take care of their diet? Patients with thyroid cancer should pay attention to their daily diet and health care, because diet not only provides nutrition to the patient's body, but also affects the progress of treatment. Eating more foods that are beneficial to treatment will make the treatment more effective. So how should patients with thyroid cancer take care of their diet?

Thyroid cancer is the most common thyroid malignancy, and it is a malignant tumor originating from thyroid epithelial cells. The early clinical manifestations of thyroid cancer are not obvious. Patients or their families and doctors may accidentally discover a hard and uneven lump in the thyroid gland of the neck. Most of them have no subjective symptoms, and the neck lump is often an asymmetric lump. The lump is prone to produce compression symptoms early, such as hoarseness, dyspnea, dysphagia, or local tenderness. When the jugular vein is compressed, signs such as venous distension and facial edema on the affected side may occur. Especially when the thyroid enlargement is accompanied by unilateral vocal cord paralysis, it is one of the characteristics of thyroid cancer.

What is the diet for thyroid cancer?

1. Eat a balanced diet, high in protein, low in fat, low in sugar, and high in vitamins, and change from eating small meals frequently to eating regular and quantitative meals. Eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, kelp, seaweed, etc.

2. After the operation, because of nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite, you can use scutellaria baicalensis, cinnamon bark, coix seed, adenophora, reed root, polygonatum, and poria, one dose a day, boiled in water, and taken twice a day until the symptoms disappear or are basically controlled. At the same time, you should keep moving in bed after the operation, and keep exercising all over your body after getting out of bed to improve your disease resistance and enhance your immune function.

3. Keep taking thyroid tablets and take vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and vitamin E for a long time.

After surgery, patients with thyroid cancer can basically eat and work normally, and should appropriately control iodine-rich foods, avoid excessive fatigue, and avoid smoking and drinking. It is necessary to pay attention to thyroid examinations, including imaging and thyroid function tests, and seek medical attention in a timely manner if abnormalities are found.