How to care for thyroid cancer after surgery

How to take care of thyroid cancer after surgery? Surgery is the main way to cure thyroid cancer. Although the effect of surgical treatment is worthy of recognition, surgery will also cause damage to the patient's body. Therefore, good care is needed after surgery to allow the patient to recover as soon as possible. So how to take care of thyroid cancer after surgery?

Care methods:

1. Pay attention to keeping the drainage tube unobstructed, and generally remove it about 48 hours after thyroid cancer surgery. If the drainage is not smooth, blood clots accumulate, and compression symptoms occur, the wound sutures should be removed quickly.

2. Due to the stimulation of endotracheal intubation and laryngeal edema, mild hoarseness and dysphagia may occur after thyroid cancer surgery, which can be treated symptomatically.

3. Pay attention to keeping the neck in a horizontal position and avoid leaning back or bending forward excessively, which will affect normal healing. This is also the focus of postoperative care for thyroid cancer.

4. Relevant experts also said that after surgery, patients can gradually transition from liquid food, semi-liquid food to normal food, pay attention to nutritional matching, avoid irritating food, and eat more foods that can reduce phlegm and relieve cough, soften and disperse nodules, such as almond cream, orange, loquat, wolfberry, lychee, kelp, sea cucumber, jellyfish, seaweed, mushrooms, etc.

5. Keep the surgical site of thyroid cancer clean and dry, avoid friction, scratching and contact with irritating soaps, alcohol, adhesive tape, etc. Men should avoid shaving their skin and hair. If vomiting occurs after surgery, it should be cleaned up in time to prevent contaminants from contaminating the wound and dressings.

6. If thyroid cancer patients experience cramps in their hands and feet, and numbness in their limbs and lips, they can receive intravenous injections of calcium gluconate or calcium chloride. When symptoms are relieved, they can switch to oral calcium preparations, 1D2 grams each time, 3 times a day, and only stop taking them when symptoms are controlled and the condition is stable.

7. Actively carry out psychological counseling to enlighten and help thyroid cancer patients to overcome pessimism and world-weariness, enhance their confidence in life, and fight the disease.

Warm reminder: This disease is difficult to treat and cure. You need to pay attention to some changes in normal times. Patients should enlighten other patients. After the disease occurs, you should pay attention to the changes in the patient. Family members should give patients more confidence and treat them reasonably.