Early, middle and late symptoms of esophageal cancer
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My aunt always felt that something was blocking her throat. At first, she just got angry. But later, she often felt uncomfortable even when she drank water. Eating also affected her throat. She took some medicine, but her symptoms didn't relieve at all. Later, she went to check and found that she had esophageal cancer. Many patients didn't find it at the beginning, but they found it was advanced, So now I will tell you the symptoms of early, middle and advanced esophageal cancer.
Early, middle and late symptoms of esophageal cancer
First of all, esophageal cancer can also be felt at the beginning. The foreign body sensation in the esophagus is mostly consistent with esophageal lesions. With the development of the disease, choking and even pain appear one after another. The cause of this symptom may be the congestion and swelling of the mucosa at the lesion site of the esophagus, which leads to the decrease of the stimulation threshold of the submucosal plexus of the esophagus.
Secondly, when suffering from esophageal cancer, there will be abnormalities when eating. After swallowing food through slow and stagnant feeling, the food will go down slowly and stagnant feeling. The upper and middle parts of esophagus were the most common sites, which were mild at the beginning and aggravated gradually, accompanied by other symptoms. The mechanism may be mainly functional changes, or it may be due to the wide "canceration field" of esophageal cancer and chronic inflammation of esophageal mucosa.
Finally, with the development of esophageal cancer, the nature of retrosternal pain, stuffy discomfort or pharyngeal pain may be burning like, acupuncture like or traction friction like pain. At the initial stage, the symptoms are mild, and only intermittently, each time may be very short, and may be relieved by drug treatment. Later, the symptoms worsened, repeated attacks and prolonged duration.
matters needing attention
In order to enhance the constitution of patients with esophageal cancer, patients with esophageal cancer pay special attention to their diet. There are many things that can't be touched when eating. The "five Taboos" of esophageal cancer diet are: avoid eating sweet, greasy, spicy, fried and baked food; avoid alcohol; avoid eating strong smelling food, such as stinky tofu, milk cool, etc.; avoid some food rich in 5-hta, such as banana, walnut, eggplant, etc; Avoid lying down immediately after meals to avoid food reflux and nausea.