What are the symptoms of cancer patients? What do I need to pay attention to in my diet?

If cancer develops, it is more likely that you will suffer from anorexia, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and weight loss.

It is necessary to focus on plant foods, reduce the intake of animal fats, and eat fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and other foods, which can not only prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also prevent cancer.

Abdominal distension. Many women think that bloating is so common that there is no need to make a fuss. However, it can be a symptom of ovarian cancer.

Liu Juntian, director of the Cancer Preventive Medicine Center of Tianjin Cancer Hospital, said that persistent abdominal swelling, pressure and pain, gastrointestinal discomfort, difficulty in eating or satiety for several weeks may be signs of ovarian cancer.

Brown rice. Brown rice is rich in B vitamins, vitamin E, and minerals such as magnesium and phosphorus. The latest research has found that simply replacing white rice with brown rice can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.

In addition, gamma oryzanol in brown rice is a powerful antioxidant that lowers cholesterol, and the lignans in it can also prevent breast cancer and other hormone-related cancers.

Cancer in the body is likely to cause symptoms of anemia and sudden appearance of facial erythema. Foods such as kiwifruit, fresh dates, bitter gourd, citrus, grapefruit, green tea, broccoli, tomatoes, and watermelon can prevent cancer.

1. Eat small meals and eat more often, with balanced nutrition.

The incidence of severe malnutrition in patients with malignant tumors in China is as high as 58%. The main reason is that cancer patients have certain misunderstandings about diet, believing that eating too well will promote the growth of cancer cells, and even thinking that meat and other foods are "hair things", so they do not eat in order to avoid eating. In fact, doing so will only lead to nutritional imbalances, which is not good for the disease**.

The correct eating habit should be to eat small, frequent meals and eat a balanced diet. It is recommended to consume 300g of milk and dairy products, 30-50g of soybeans and nuts, 50-75g of livestock and poultry meat, 50-100g of fish and shrimp, 25-50g of eggs, 500-900g of vegetables and fruits, 250-400g of cereals, and 1200ml of water.

2. Meat should be selectively selected.

Meat must be eaten, but not everything, to limit the intake of red meat and processed meat, eat beef, mutton, pork and other red meat should be less than 90g every day, with fish, poultry, eggs, etc. instead of red meat.

3. Protein and vitamins are conducive to wound healing.

Proteins are involved in both the composition of healthy tissues and the healing of damaged tissues, and are essential nutrients for cancer patients. Vitamins can promote wound recovery and are less prone to scarring. Vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamins, and in the ** stage, cancer patients should ensure the supply of vitamins.

4. Supplements are not medicines, and they should be consumed according to the doctor's instructions.

Supplements are not inedible, for cancer patients whose daily diet cannot meet their nutritional needs, they can be strengthened by supplementing with additional nutrients, however, they should be carried out under the guidance of a professional doctor.

Sometimes I don't eat nutritious things, sometimes I eat shrimp or mutton, sometimes I listen to home remedies, sometimes I overeat, or I eat some nourishing foods, which are not right.

Patients in the ** period, eating spicy food during the course of taking the medicine will cancel the effect of the drug, Although tea is not a contraindicated food for cancer patients, it is still not recommended for patients to drink tea during the period of taking medicine. Protein is essential to improve immunity, but vitamins and trace elements are also essential.

Don't eat seafood, don't eat things that make you allergic, don't eat some home remedies, and don't pay attention to dietary combinations. There is no focus on nutritional supplementation.

Cancer patients should avoid these misconceptions:

1. The better you eat, the faster cancer cells will grow.

Many cancer patients believe that since cancer cells are also part of the body, the faster the cancer cells will grow if they eat a better diet and the more nutrients the body absorbs. On the surface, there is nothing flawed in this statement, but there is no theoretical basis for it. On the contrary, the purpose of adequate nutrient intake is not to ** tumors, but to maintain or improve food intake and alleviate metabolic disorders, maintain skeletal muscle mass and physical fitness, and reduce the risk of ** interruption.

Good nutrition can help reduce the adverse effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in cancer patients and improve the tolerance of cancer**.

2. The diet of cancer patients should be light as much as possible and eat less meat.

Some people advocate that cancer patients eat vegetarian and less meat, one is that eating a vegetarian diet can make the tumor smaller, and the other is that eating chicken, pork and other meats will make it difficult for wounds to heal. It has been proven that cancer patients who only eat vegetarian diet and do not eat meat are far less effective than patients with balanced meat and vegetarian diets. During the period of cancer**, eating only vegetarian food can easily cause insufficient calories and high-quality protein, which will affect the cell repair of damaged tissues and continue to decline immunity.

3. Over-reliance on supplements.

People who visit cancer patients in hospitals often carry a variety of supplements on their hands. Usually in people's consciousness, when they are sick, they need to be supplemented, so supplements such as bird's nest and cordyceps come in handy. And because there will be loss of appetite during cancer, in order to maintain the body's energy, some patients will replace their normal diet with supplements.

The more expensive the fungus, the better the anti-cancer effect.

Some mushroom foods contain mushroom polysaccharides and other mushrooms with anti-cancer effects, cancer patients should eat enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms or lion's mane mushrooms and other mushrooms appropriately, but not the more expensive the better. Some family members will blindly buy imported fruits, but in fact, the antioxidant capacity of the same fruits is almost the same. Imported fruits can lead to the loss of nutrients due to long transportation times.

As long as the patient chooses fresh vegetables and fruits to consume, and at the same time pays attention to the diversity of types, and its anti-cancer effect cannot be judged by the level of **.

The first misconception is that the more expensive the fungus, the better the effect on fighting cancer. Everyone has eaten mushroom ingredients, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, chicken leg mushrooms and other fungus plants, they have a certain anti-cancer effect, people often think that the more expensive mushroom food, the better the anti-cancer effect, such an idea is wrong, the antioxidant capacity between them is about the same, there is no difference, as long as it is fresh. The second misconception is that soup is highly nutritious and has many benefits for drinking it often.

Many people think that soup is more nutritious when using some ingredients with nutritional value. In fact, there is a misunderstanding here, the nutritional value in the broth is not as high as imagined, about only 10% of the nutrients in the meat. The third misconception is that eating more foods high in sugar is good for the body.

Many cancer patients are relatively weak, weak, and most of them are thinner, so it is very important to supplement nutrition, so some often eat some foods with high sugar content to provide energy for the human body.