Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Recently, I always feel that my nose is bleeding, and I feel that my throat is becoming more and more uncomfortable. I often don't want to eat, and my hearing is not very good. I think it's because of too much pressure recently. Results the day before yesterday when I went to the hospital for examination, I knew that I had nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In clinical medicine, there were many early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and it was easy to distinguish whether it was nasopharyngeal carcinoma or not. Let me tell you about the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: bloody nose: bloody nose is an early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, characterized by blood in the nose, or by sucking blood from the mouth, also known as blood in the sputum. Epistaxis often occurs after getting up in the morning. When the amount of blood in the nose is not large, it is often neglected by the patients, mistakenly considered as rhinitis or sinusitis, or treated as hemoptysis to the internal medicine department. Because of the weather caused by nose bleeding, this is a very common phenomenon, of course, there are some patients with nasal smoke cancer nose bleeding phenomenon.

Symptom 2: tinnitus, hearing loss: tinnitus, ear stuffiness and hearing loss are also early signs of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This symptom is caused by the blockage of the pharyngeal tympanic orifice by a new organism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Hearing loss may also be caused by the deterioration of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the damage of auditory nerve. Tinnitus and hearing loss are often misdiagnosed as otitis media or other diseases, resulting in delayed treatment. There are many elderly patients, will cause hearing loss, tinnitus phenomenon, if this phenomenon occurs, it may be early nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but it may not be.

Symptom 3: headache: about 70% of NPC patients have headache symptoms at the time of initial diagnosis. The headache symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are often manifested as migraine, cranioparietal occipital pain or neck pain. The headache of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mostly related to the invasion of skull base bone, nerves and blood vessels by cancer tissue. Generally speaking, most patients will have pain in the early stage. If headache occurs, it may not be nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

matters needing attention

It is suitable to eat light and moist food, sweet and cold body fluid, detoxification and detumescence, such as soybean milk, pear juice, carrot juice, lotus root juice, sugarcane juice, water chestnut (horseshoe) juice, lotus seed, mung bean, wax gourd, watermelon, mushroom, tremella, turtle, oyster, lean pork, duck meat, eggs, etc. Patients can eat more vegetables or fruits, improve the body's immune ability, try to eat less heavy taste food, do not eat barbecue fried food.