What to eat during cancer chemotherapy

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Patients with colorectal cancer often have very serious toxic reactions during chemotherapy, such as gastrointestinal reactions, blood routine, liver and kidney dysfunction, which bring great pain to patients, and even affect the normal progress of chemotherapy. What is good to eat during cancer chemotherapy?

What to eat during cancer chemotherapy

Diet conditioning for the decrease of hemogram: chemotherapy for colorectal cancer can cause poor bone marrow regeneration, especially the decrease of white blood cells. In order to effectively prevent the decline of hemogram, patients should supplement high protein diet during chemotherapy, such as milk, soybean, lean meat, pig's hoof, sea cucumber, fish, animal liver, jujube, peanut, walnut, black fungus, carrot, adzuki bean, etc. Peptone made from crab, black fish, beef and animals, such as donkey hide glue and pig skin glue, also helps to improve white blood cells.

Dietary conditioning of digestive tract toxicity: chemotherapy of rectal cancer can cause oral mucositis, manifested as mucosal congestion, edema, ulcer, pain, etc. At this time, keep your mouth clean, brush your teeth after eating, supplement high nutrition liquid or do liquid diet, such as lotus seed soup, snow ear soup, milk, soybean milk, crucian carp soup, etc. Avoid overheated, acid and irritating diet when eating. Acute inflammation is delicious and contains ice quickly to reduce inflammatory exudation. In case of ulcer, 20 ml honey can be added into crushed vitamin c0.1 g, 2-4 times a day.

Dietary conditioning and prevention of liver and kidney injury: some chemotherapy drugs can cause liver injury and increase transaminase. At this time should eat more bitter gourd, mung bean sprouts, tea, mushrooms, fungus, Hericium erinaceus and other fungus food, eat more vitamin rich fruits, such as Kiwi fruit, honey peach, apple, grapes, drink more green tea, oolong tea, honey water. If liver injury is serious, can use Schisandra 20 grams, medlar 20 grams stew crucian carp soup.

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The dietary taboos are: (1) strong liquor, spicy, hot and dry, irritating food. (2) High fat diet and low fiber food. (3) Try to eat less fried, smoked and pickled food.