What kind of health care is needed after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma can have long-term chronic inflammation after radiotherapy, and nasal drops should be used frequently to reduce inflammation. Dry mouth is caused by the glands being damaged by rays, and there is no way to recover from them, so you can only drink plenty of water. Pay attention to oral hygiene, because there is less saliva, and it is easy to have oral infections.

It is recommended that you can use traditional Chinese medicine to recuperate and restore your physique, which will be of great help to the follow-up.

What should I pay attention to during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer? Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a common malignant tumor disease, and it is very important to seize the opportunity of its treatment, and the early treatment will not only have good results, but also have an excellent prognosis. However, in the middle and late stages, the treatment is more prickly, and the patient's diet should be paid special attention to at this time.

So what should we pay attention to in the diet during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?

What should be paid attention to in the diet during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer?

1. Patients with nasopharyngeal cancer should drink more water during radiotherapy, drink light drinks, fruit juices, milk, etc. The staple food should be semi-liquid food or soft and rotten food with a ruler as well, and the non-staple food should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, especially carrots, water chestnuts, white radish, tomatoes, lotus roots, white pears, citrus, lemons, hawthorn and other fruits. The taste of the diet should be light and sweet, and it is not advisable to drink too much raw and cold, to avoid cold and stomach, and to contain plum, monk fruit, olive, green fruit, etc., which can affect saliva secretion and reduce boring performance.

2. During the period of radiotherapy, most patients with nasopharyngeal cancer are deficient in qi and blood, poison and fire, and have a very poor appetite, so the diet during the radiotherapy period of nasopharyngeal cancer should affect the appetite, and adding intake is the fundamental measure to ensure medical treatment. Therefore, it is advisable to choose foods that are easy to digest, have sufficient nutrients, and have good color, flavor, and taste, such as porridge, soup, soup, juice, etc. The distribution of diet should be moisturizing and palatable, aromatic and turbid, such as rock sugar rice porridge, coriander stewed large carp, water chestnut, water chestnut, white pear, etc.

Usually the mouth contains dark green fruit and fresh mountain plants, which has the effect of anti-inflammatory sterilization, clearing the throat and rejuvenating.

3. During the period of radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer, the diet should be accompanied by sleepy Hu meals, and the supplementary food should be less raw and phlegm, sticky and turbid, and fat and glycol stuffed, and foods with the effect of dissolving phlegm and dispersing can be selected, such as kelp, seaweed, seaweed, sea stinger, etc. When there are symptoms of liver inflammation such as dizziness, deafness, bitterness, irritability, etc., it is advisable to choose products that clear the liver and diarrhea and nourish yin and latent yang to alleviate the performance, such as chrysanthemum instead of tea, fried cassia offspring coffee, and eat bitter tea, daylily, bitter gourd, wolfberry seedlings, plums, abalone, mustard greens, etc.

First, drink plenty of water and drink a liquid diet, such as juice and milk. Second, choose foods that dissolve phlegm and disperse condensation, such as kelp, seaweed, and dragon's mustard. Third, don't eat spicy foods, such as beef, lamb, chili peppers, and so on.

It is necessary to pay attention to the *** produced during radiotherapy, but also to pay attention to the process of ***, and also pay attention to the combination of diet, to focus on light diet, pay attention to rest, and also pay attention to the effect of **.

After radiotherapy, it is difficult to recover from the depletion of jin fluid for a while, and some products that are sweet and moisturizing, nourishing yin and nourishing should also be applied, such as lotus root juice, water chestnut, pear, mung bean, watermelon, asparagus, green tea, figs, honey, almonds, black plum, bananas, loquats, carrots, etc.

Dietary contraindications: often caused by radiation therapy"Internal heat"Hot foods such as dog meat, mutton, as well as chili, pepper, pepper, mustard, star anise, cinnamon, etc., should not be eaten or eaten less, and salt-pickled, smoked, burnt, and moldy foods should not be eaten. Smoking and alcohol are absolutely prohibited.

Taboos cannot be absolute, Chinese medicine believes"Based on stomach gas"If the patient likes to eat a certain type of food, although it belongs to the taboo range, it can still be eaten, and the key is to eat less and eat lightly.

There are many kinds of nutritious foods, in addition to rice, wheat, millet, soybeans, etc., chicken, sheep, and beef are foods that replenish qi, and can be eaten by weak tumor patients.

What to eat during radiotherapy.

During radiotherapy, cancer cells are killed while killing normal cells inselectively, which makes the body's immunity decrease and a series of *** occurs. As an adjunct, you can take Jinxing (ginsenoside rh2) capsules according to your own situation, on the one hand, to reduce the harm caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy toxins, on the other hand, it can enhance the effect, increase white blood cells, prevent metastasis, and increase the patient's appetite and improve the quality of life.

1 Selection of radiation and scope of exposure.

Design of the irradiation field: the principle of designing the irradiation field is "small but not leaky", the parts involved in the tumor should be all included in the irradiation field, but the normal tissues in the control field, especially the tissues sensitive to radiotherapy, should be protected, the primary lesions of the nasopharynx are mainly used in the bilateral anterior auricular fields, if the nasal cavity and nasopharyngeal paraspace are involved, the anterior nasal field can be irradiated, and the supraorbital field or infraorbital field can be added when the orbit is involved. Care should be taken to protect the eyes with lead films and prevent radiation cataracts from occurring.

The extent of cervical irradiation depends on the lesion of the lymph nodes, and prophylactic irradiation of both upper cervical areas is often done for patients who do not palpate the cervical lymph nodes. If there is cervical lymph node metastasis, prophylactic irradiation is often done to the drainage area below the metastases in addition to irradiation metastases.

2 Radiation dose and timing.

1) Continuous radiation**: 200CGY 5 times a week, total TD6000 7000CGY 6 7 weeks 7 weeks. (2) Segmented radiation**:

Generally, the radiation ** is divided into two stages, 5 times a week, 200CGY each time, each period is about 3 5 weeks, and the two stages are rested for four weeks, with a total dose of TD6500 7000CGY.