How to arrange diet after thyroid cancer surgery

How should the diet be arranged after thyroid cancer surgery? We all know that although surgical treatment of thyroid cancer has a high hope of cure, it will also bring many side effects to the patient's body. Therefore, thyroid patients are often very weak after surgery. At this time, reasonable diet and health care are needed to ensure that the patient's body recovers as soon as possible. So how should the diet be arranged after thyroid cancer surgery?

How should patients with thyroid disease maintain their nutrition after treatment? What are the situations that need attention? Most of the reasons for thyroid disease are due to diet, so patients should eat more foods with high iodine content, such as kelp, laver, hair algae, mussels, scallops, razor clams, jellyfish, sea cucumbers, lobsters, hairtail, mackerel, fish maw, cockles, clams, and turtles. It is advisable to eat more foods that have the effect of dissolving swelling, including water chestnuts, taro, rapeseed, mustard greens, and kiwifruit. It is advisable to eat more foods that enhance immunity: shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, walnuts, coix seeds, red dates, and yam.

(1) The diet structure should be reasonable. The diet for cancer patients should not be simple and monotonous. It should be diverse, novel, and well-structured. When making a diet, try to combine lightness with high nutritional quality, softness and easy digestion with rich vitamins, freshness with cold, hot, warm, and neutral flavors, and the total amount of food supplied with the patient's internal organs' cold, hot, deficiency, and excess syndromes. This should be done under the guidance of a doctor.

(2) The cooking and eating methods should be particular, and efforts should be made to improve the patient's appetite. In the selection, preparation, and cooking of food, good sensory properties of the food should be created, and efforts should be made in taste, color, aroma, and shape to suit and satisfy the patient's taste preferences and habits as much as possible. It is also necessary to adopt small meals, coarse and fine combinations, liquid food, alternating soft and hard food, and sweet and salty food according to the patient's digestive ability. Create a pleasant atmosphere when eating, and try to eat with relatives. Before eating, try to avoid adverse stimulation such as oil smoke. During the interval between radiotherapy and chemotherapy, seize the favorable opportunity when the patient's appetite improves to supplement nutrition.

(3) Total calories. Cancer patients should try to ensure that their total calories intake from food is not less than the minimum requirement for normal people, that is, more than 10 kilojoules per day. This is because cancer patients have high protein decomposition and reduced anabolism, and their nutrition is in a negative nitrogen balance state, so their protein demand should be increased. Generally, the daily protein intake should reach more than 1.5 grams per body weight, and should be mainly high-quality protein, such as eggs, milk, meat, soy products, etc.

(4) Nutrition should be relatively balanced. According to the needs of the patient, each nutrient should be appropriate and complete. In addition to sufficient high-quality protein intake, low-fat and moderate carbohydrates should be the main source. Pay attention to supplementing vitamins, inorganic salts, cellulose, etc., which can be obtained from fresh vegetables and fruits.

The diet of thyroid patients is very important to their families. Generally, patients will suffer from loss of appetite. If patients can enhance their nutrition through diet during treatment, it will be a very happy thing for their families, so the patient's diet is very important.