How to provide good postoperative care for thyroid cancer

How to provide good postoperative care for thyroid cancer? Although the therapeutic effect of nursing care on a serious disease like cancer is not great, the impact on the patient's body and the treatment effect is very large. The treatment of cancer cannot be done without any of these factors. So how to provide good postoperative care for thyroid cancer? Let's take a look together.

(1) Pay attention to keeping the drainage tube open, which is usually removed about 48 hours after surgery.

(2) If drainage is poor, blood clots accumulate, and compression symptoms occur, the wound sutures should be removed quickly.

(3) Due to the stimulation of the endotracheal tube and laryngeal edema, mild hoarseness and dysphagia may occur after surgery, which can be treated symptomatically.

(4) If vomiting occurs after surgery, it should be cleaned up immediately to prevent contaminants from contaminating the wound and dressings.

(5) Be careful to keep the neck in a horizontal position and avoid leaning back or bending forward excessively, which may affect normal healing.

(6) After surgery, you can gradually transition from liquid or semi-liquid food to normal food, paying attention to nutritional balance and avoiding irritating foods.

(7) Actively provide psychological counseling to help patients overcome their pessimism and pessimism, enhance their confidence in life, and fight the disease.

(8) Keep the surgical site clean and dry, and avoid friction, scratching, and contact with irritating soaps, alcohol, adhesive tape, etc. Men should avoid shaving their skin and hair.

(9) If convulsions of the hands and feet, numbness of the limbs and lips occur, calcium gluconate or calcium chloride can be injected intravenously; when the symptoms are relieved, oral calcium preparations can be used, 12 grams each time, 3 times a day, and the medication can be discontinued until the symptoms are controlled and the condition is stable.

In life, everyone should pay more attention to the dietary problems of thyroid cancer, and thyroid cancer patients should pay attention to scientific diet plans. People should pay attention to the impact of thyroid cancer, do not blindly treat it, and get rid of the troubles of the disease as soon as possible.