How should liver cancer terminal have a fever to do

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There is a patient with advanced liver cancer in our department. When we went to the ward round, the patient's family members said that sometimes the patient couldn't sleep all night, and accompanied by the appearance of fever symptoms. Let's talk about what to do with the fever of advanced liver cancer.

How should liver cancer terminal have a fever to do

First, liver cancer can cause abnormally high fever and severe pain due to the nature of the disease. First, take a look at the temperature of fever. Among the cooling measures, physical cooling is the most effective and safe, and should be the first choice. Use ice bag or diluted alcohol to wipe the big blood vessels, such as head, temple, neck, armpit, groin, etc., but not behind pillow, ear, chest, abdomen.

Second: liver cancer late fever, caused by cancer, will not appear at the same time cold, cough and other phenomena, if at the same time cold and cough, may be caused by a cold, at this time to stop taking anti-cancer drugs, fever treatment, can take cold medicine or other methods of treatment, such as symptoms improved, can continue to liver cancer treatment.

Third: if the patient has a high fever (high fever, night sweats or chills), immediately inform the doctor, eliminate the infection and use drugs to relieve the high temperature. Fever at the same time, due to the liver compression diaphragm (separating the chest and abdominal muscle layer), many patients with advanced liver cancer will have choking phenomenon, there are many drugs can alleviate this symptom, but do not use drugs indiscriminately. 　

matters needing attention

It is quite normal for patients with advanced liver cancer to have a fever, because at this time, the whole body system of the patients is in disorder, so many diseases will take advantage of the opportunity to attack, so we can try to take physical cooling, such as using ice to cold compress and so on.