Nursing care of patients with myasthenia gravis

summary

A 37 year old male patient has been in a coma for three months due to myasthenia gravis in the hospital. He is better after treatment. Let's take a look at the nursing care of patients with myasthenia gravis.

Nursing care of patients with myasthenia gravis

First: eat less cold food, avoid eating shepherd's purse, radish, mung bean, kelp, laver, watercress, day lily, watermelon, balsam pear and other cold food. Bitter food should also be eaten less, because bitter food can diarrhea heat, easy to cause harm to the stomach.

Second: eat more warm tonic: myasthenia gravis patients with spleen and stomach weakness easily damaged, should eat more warm tonic food, these foods can play a tonic, and in the role of urgency. Commonly used warm tonic foods are: Meat: beef, pork, dog, rabbit, chicken, etc.; protein: fish, eggs, milk.

Third: in the diet deployment, because myasthenia gravis patients often have pharyngeal myasthenia, often interrupt swallowing when eating, must rest for a while before continuing to swallow or chew, so the supply of diet should be liquid or semi liquid diet. Food should be soft, chewy and easy to swallow. Avoid raw, cold, spicy food, tobacco, alcohol and other stimulants. Mung bean was fasted during medication.

matters needing attention

For this disease: patients should also pay attention to diet conditioning. We should eat more high protein food, such as chicken, duck, fish, lean meat, eggs, bean products (avoid mung beans during treatment) and fresh vegetables and fruits. At the same time, we should pay attention to the digestibility of food, and do not eat rough and indigestible food. In addition, we should avoid eating raw, cold and spicy food, and should not smoke or drink.