Symptoms of liver cancer after interventional therapy

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Interventional therapy for liver cancer is a method of injecting anticancer drugs or embolic agents into hepatic artery for local chemotherapy of cancer cells under the guidance of angiography, fluoroscopy, CT, Mr and B-ultrasound through small channels with a diameter of a few millimeters on blood vessels and skin without operation. Generally, after this kind of treatment, patients will have a variety of adverse reactions. At this time, we need our family members to pay special attention to it, and correctly master the nursing methods to help patients tide over the difficulties smoothly. Let's talk about the symptoms of liver cancer after interventional therapy.

Symptoms of liver cancer after interventional therapy

Patients with liver cancer after interventional therapy, generally appear loss of appetite, do not want to eat phenomenon, family members should pay attention to improve the patient's appetite, encourage them to eat. It's best to choose high protein, high calorie, high vitamin and low-fat food. Choose food to be easy to digest soft food, do a small number of meals. To eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, with juice drinks, vitamin supplements.

Patients with liver cancer will have fever after interventional therapy. This is because the skin absorbs heat after the tumor necrosis. If the body temperature does not exceed 38.5 ℃ and the patient can tolerate it, it is not necessary to do cooling treatment, which is conducive to the absorption of necrotic tissue. But we should pay attention to the patient's warmth, indoor ventilation, close observation of body temperature changes, high fever to physical cooling, or drug cooling, and combined with antibiotic drug treatment, to prevent infection.

Patients with liver cancer after interventional therapy will also have nausea and vomiting. This is caused by the stimulation of gastrointestinal tract by high concentration chemotherapy drugs. In order to reduce gastrointestinal reaction, fasting should be done for 2 hours before and after interventional surgery. Family members should pay attention to observe the amount and color of vomit, and do a good job in cleaning vomit, so as to keep patients clean and make patients comfortable as much as possible.

matters needing attention

Family members should pay close attention to whether there is bleeding or hematoma in the puncture area. If there is bleeding, they should find a doctor in time to re bandage. Because when the patient is urinating or coughing violently, they should press the femoral artery puncture point in advance to prevent local bleeding