Diet after radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

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Esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in China, which ranks the second in digestive tract tumors. The symptoms of early esophageal cancer are not obvious, often intermittent, easy to be ignored. Dysphagia, pain, vomiting, hiccup, weight loss and other obvious symptoms are often in the middle and late stage. Radiotherapy is one of the most important, effective and safe methods in the treatment of esophageal cancer, which greatly improves the survival rate of esophageal cancer. However, radiotherapy in the treatment, but also brought some side effects to patients, such as nausea and vomiting, eating difficulties, radiation esophagitis and other symptoms, seriously affected the quality of life of patients, to a certain extent, also affected the treatment effect, so in esophageal cancer radiotherapy diet conditioning is particularly important. Let's take a look at the diet after esophageal cancer radiotherapy

Diet after radiotherapy for esophageal cancer

First, patients with mild dysphagia, can be given semi liquid food, food should be high protein, high caloric energy, high vitamin. Such as small meatballs, broken vegetables, longxumian, small wonton, all kinds of meat porridge, meat cake and other soft and easy to swallow food

The second is to supplement vitamin C. tender leafy vegetables, eggplants and melons can be used to make them soft or muddy. If dysphagia is serious, homogenate meal or viscous liquid food should be used, such as baby rice flour paste, sesame paste, steamed egg soup, various porridge, etc. If conditions permit, early use of nasal feeding tube to feed homogenate mixed milk or essential diet can reduce weight loss and prevent malnutrition.

Finally, esophageal cancer consumes a lot of nutrition for patients, so we must provide sufficient calories, protein and vitamin food to maintain the nutrition of patients. The diet should be diversified and easy to digest. Eat more milk, eggs, fish, meat, poultry and beans containing high-quality protein

matters needing attention

In the course of treatment, it is recommended to take selenium Weikang chewable tablets, which can enhance the biological self-regulation, regulate the body's own anti-cancer factors, change the abnormal biochemical changes in cancer cells, and control the disease. I hope these suggestions will help you.