Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Recently, I always feel my headache. I think it's caused by a cold, and I don't care too much when I suddenly see the dry weather leading to my nosebleed. Yesterday, my friend complained to me that he saw me when he was shopping. Because there were so many people, he kept calling me. I didn't hear him at all. When I went to the hospital for examination, I knew that I had nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The doctor told me that there are many kinds of symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Now I will tell you about the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: headache: it is a common early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, accounting for 68.6%. It can be the first symptom or the only symptom. In the early stage, the position of headache was not fixed and intermittent. The late stage was persistent migraine with fixed location. The reason is that early patients may be caused by neurovascular reflex or stimulation of the first trigeminal nerve. Late stage patients are often caused by the destruction of the skull base and intracranial spread of tumors involving cranial nerves. A cold can lead to headache. Once there is pain, it may not be nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but also some other diseases.

Symptom 2: bleeding: early symptoms of bleeding, the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is blood in sputum after nasal suction or blood in nose when blowing nose. In the early stage, there was only a small amount of blood in sputum or mucus. Late bleeding is more, there may be nosebleed. If it is rhinitis patients, in the early time, the most obvious symptom is bleeding symptoms, generally speaking, there is no sign of nosebleed.

Symptom 3: tinnitus, hearing loss, sense of occlusion in ear: nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurs in the lateral wall of nasopharynx, lateral fossa or the upper lip of eustachian tube opening. When the tumor compresses eustachian tube, unilateral tinnitus or hearing loss can occur. Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma can also occur catarrhal otitis media. In clinical medicine, there are many kinds of diseases will appear tinnitus or hearing loss symptoms, if there are such symptoms, not necessarily nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

matters needing attention

For the xerostomia and pharyngeal dryness caused by radiotherapy, the principle of diet should be to produce fluid and moisten dryness, such as tea water, lemon water, fruit juice, glucose solution, watermelon juice, orange juice, plum soup, mung bean soup, pear juice, orange juice, etc. Can eat wolfberry, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, chrysanthemum, reed root, sweet almond, jujube, water chestnut, white radish, pear, hawthorn, citrus and other food. If patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma choose surgical treatment, after surgery, they can drink more water, but not carbonated drinks, try to drink more water, if necessary, eat more throat food.