Ascites symptom nursing?

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Ascites is a common symptom in the middle and late stage of cancer. In addition to pain, ascites is one of the main pathologies that bring pain to cancer patients. When the amount of ascites is small or at the initial stage of the disease, and the liver function damage is not obvious, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and human intervention can be used as appropriate, but the scheme with less damage to liver function should still be selected, Or give appropriate liver protection treatment in time after treatment. Ascites symptom nursing? Let's talk about it.

Ascites symptom nursing?

Discharging ascites can quickly relieve intra-abdominal pressure, relieve the compression symptoms of heart, lung, kidney and gastrointestinal tract, and relieve the pain of patients. Repeated discharge of ascites will lead to a large number of body fluid and protein loss, water electrolyte disorder, orthostatic hypotension, liver coma and other serious consequences. Therefore, discharge of ascites can not be used as the preferred treatment.

Intraperitoneal chemotherapy after proper discharge of ascites, intraperitoneal injection of human anti-tumor drugs can reduce the formation of ascites, maintain a high level of liver and intraperitoneal drugs, and the toxicity is much smaller than the systemic use of the same drugs.

Limit the intake of water and sodium. At present, it is advocated that patients with ascites do not need to completely ban the intake of sodium. The daily intake of sodium should not exceed 1g for mild cases and 0.5g for severe cases, and the intake of water should be appropriately limited.

matters needing attention

In addition to the conventional diet of high protein, we can consider taking traditional Chinese medicine to inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells, reduce toxic and side effects, and alleviate the production of ascites to a certain extent.