Terminal symptoms of esophageal cancer

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Some time ago, my wife said that she had a sore throat. She also had a pain when she ate. She thought it was pharyngitis. After taking the medicine for a period of time, she didn't get any effect. She found that it was esophageal cancer. Now her condition has been controlled to a certain extent. For the problem of terminal symptoms of esophageal cancer, let me tell you.

Terminal symptoms of esophageal cancer

First of all: Patients with advanced esophageal cancer will have dyspnea for about a week before death, and the chest fluctuates greatly. Especially at night, they will have severe asthma, and they will enter a coma state a few minutes before death.

Secondly: Patients with advanced esophageal cancer generally have no appetite, and they will have difficulty swallowing, resulting in inability to eat. They can only eat some liquid food, and there will be a lot of phlegm in their throat, and their voice will also change, which is not very clear and hoarse.

Finally: the pre death symptoms of advanced esophageal cancer are dysphagia, pain, hoarseness, hiccup, vomiting, a series of symptoms of respiratory system, weight loss, etc. dysphagia can be divided into many types due to the different location of esophageal cancer, such as hyperemia, edema and inflammation of the proximal esophageal mucosa of esophageal cancer, dysphagia will aggravate, and dysphagia symptoms will aggravate when it is alleviated There will be some relief.

matters needing attention

Esophageal cancer is indeed very painful, but it is not scientific to judge whether the patient is about to die only from the pre death symptoms. We can use medication to help relieve the pain of patients.