What should I do if I can t eat and have a bad appetite during radiotherapy?

Updated on healthy 2024-05-08
14 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Radiotherapy can cause bone marrow suppression, which manifests as a decrease in white blood cells and platelets. In order to prevent the decline of blood count caused by bone marrow suppression, it is necessary to pay attention to strengthening nutrition, eating more chicken, duck, fish, meat, etc., and it is advisable to use boiling, stewing, steaming and other methods of cooking. You can also choose foods that are more popular with Taiwan Railway, such as animal liver, kidney, heart, egg yolk, etc.; Vegetables include spinach, tomatoes, celery, etc.; Fruits can be given plums, pineapples, peaches, grapes, red dates, bayberry, oranges, oranges, etc.

    Poor appetite, nausea, and vomiting are all common symptoms after radiotherapy. If the nausea is severe, oral drugs such as vitamin B6, methorin, and life protocert can be taken to reduce nausea; If the vomiting is severe, drugs such as diturin can be injected intramuscularly at the same time as the dose of life protectan. The easiest way is to press the Neiguan and Zusanli points with your hands.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Nausea and vomiting is one of the most common causes of radiotherapy for tumors, and most of them are caused by gastrointestinal disorders caused by radiotherapy. The prevention and treatment method is: at this time, the patient should pay attention to bed rest and drink more water to facilitate the excretion of metabolites.

    Prepare food carefully, eat small, frequent meals, eat easily digestible foods, avoid sweet, spicy, greasy and unhealthy smelling foods, and eat salty snacks and foods. Oral administration of vitamin B6, chlorethalin and other drugs can reduce nausea. If the vomiting is severe, drugs such as methorin can be injected intramuscularly.

    The easiest way to do this is to press or acupuncture the Neiguan and Zusanli points with your hands, which can also help. Anorexia is one of the earliest symptoms, and it is also a side effect during radiotherapy. If you have a loss of appetite due to radiotherapy, you can take vitamin B6, digestive aids and appetizers, or you can choose to eat appetizers such as hawthorn.

    Patients with severe symptoms may consider infusion or discontinuation of radiotherapy when the treatment effect is not good.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    During radiotherapy, it is normal for patients to lose appetite, nausea and vomiting, at this time, it is necessary to cooperate with many parties, first alleviate the condition in the use of drugs, and then through dietary care, the diet should use soft and easily digestible food, and should appropriately choose the light and refreshing patients who love to eat, and increase the intake of anti-cancer fruits between meals.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The patient's diet can be adjusted and arranged reasonably according to the patient's preferences, and the best way is to let the patient rest for a period of time before allowing the patient to eat.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    You can drink some carrot juice or orange juice, cook some hawthorn rock sugar porridge, which can enhance appetite, drink some nutritious chicken soup, which can play a role in antioxidant, detoxification, and improve physical strength, as well as ginger tangerine peel tea, tangerine peel has the effect of dissolving phlegm and dehumidifying, and has obvious ** effect on indigestion and loss of appetite.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Recommendations can be made in the following areas**

    1) It is recommended that patients consume appetizing foods such as hawthorn, or Chinese patent medicines such as hawthorn pills, Muxiang Shunqi pills, and Baohe pills;

    2) Advise patients to take vitamin B6 and other drugs that help increase appetite and help digestion;

    3) Taking anti-chemotherapy Chinese medicines, such as medical-grade Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, highly concentrated Ganoderma lucidum preparations, etc., are synergistic with chemotherapy to help patients eliminate food and stagnation, nourish the spleen and stomach, warm and nourish the spleen and kidneys, and relieve liver and dampness;

    4) If the patient's anorexia does not improve for a long time, it is recommended to communicate with the doctor in time and accept**.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    If we don't have an appetite, we can use some means to make others short-sighted, such as nasal congestion satellite TV in the hospital, and these things can be used, so that the body can get these nutrients.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Find some appetizing side dishes for the patient to eat, increase the patient's appetite, make him enjoy eating, and will not be difficult to eat.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Yes. The effect of the drug is very large, it may affect the patient's appetite, and it can also make the patient unable to eat.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Yes, it will affect the patient's mentality, and it will also affect the patient's mind, and he will not be able to eat at all in terms of diet.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    The patient will really have no appetite in terms of diet, and feel very nauseous every day, and do not want to eat.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Radiotherapy requires adequate nutritional supplementation, which is helpful for the body to improve immunity, enhance resistance, and reduce the adverse effects of chemotherapy. In the diet to pay attention to the supplement of enough high-quality protein, animal protein to low-fat chicken, fish, milk is better, is to eat vegetable protein-rich bean food, can choose ginseng, American ginseng, astragalus, red dates, dietary fish, soft-shelled turtle, longan, etc., to promote cell proliferation; Chemotherapy patients often have a tendency to anemia, and patients should be given iron-containing foods; Cancer patients need 5 10 grams of vitamin C per day to support the function of white blood cells and red blood cells, and to prevent the production of chemotherapy drugs***, to eat more vitamin-rich foods, it is best to drink vegetables and fruits containing more vitamin C In order to prevent vomiting, the diet is mainly light and nutritious and easy to digest food, you can eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, and take the method of eating less and more meals. Drinking more green tea during chemotherapy can enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs to kill cancer cells without increasing toxicity.

    Ejiao stewed chicken can be eaten.

    You can also let him try to take the pure biological product "Yak Cordyceps Capsules" produced by Buzheng Tang, which contains Cordyceps, yak active protein and American ginseng, which has the effect of inhibiting tumors, whitening and reducing radiotherapy and chemotherapy*** (such as vomiting and poor appetite). Clinical trials have shown that even patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy have improved their appetite after taking it.

    Good luck soon**!

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    It is recommended that the patient eat some nutritious and appetizing food in terms of diet, and secondly, communicate with the patient more, and give feedback to the doctor in time if there is a problem.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    During radiotherapy, it is advisable to eat sweet and moisturizing products, such as loquat, pear, banana, lotus root, carrot, jellyfish, etc.

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