Hematemesis in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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During this period of time, I found that my grandfather often had some unexplained fever, and some coughing, and there was blood in his nose. Later, the symptoms became more and more serious, and people gradually became thinner and thinner. After examination, I found out that he was in the late stage of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and even had hematemesis. Now he is ready for radiotherapy. Now I would like to share the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma to help other patients find out in time

Hematemesis in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

First of all, if there is nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the most common symptom in the early stage is bleeding, such as coughing, phlegm and blood. The body will gradually lose weight, and the body's resistance will decline. If there is such a performance, you should go to the Department of ent for examination in time. You can do a laryngoscope, and if necessary, you can take pathology for biopsy.

Secondly, the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are not easy to be found, so it is easy to be ignored by patients and doctors. These symptoms include nosebleed, runny nose, obstruction of hearing due to nasal obstruction or obstruction of eustachian tube. As for bleeding, it rarely occurs in the early stage. The later symptoms include overlapping images, facial pain and headache. Because the nasopharynx has a strong lymphatic drainage tube leading to the neck, the first symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma spread may be lymph node enlargement.

Finally, suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma also has certain symptoms to follow. The most typical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are blood in the sputum during nasal suction, accompanied by headache, decreased vision, nasal congestion. If the patient is in the middle and late stage, it can cause epistaxis, visible ulcer or cauliflower tumor in the nasal cavity.

matters needing attention

The majority of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma have poor physical fitness, which will affect the improvement of the disease. Therefore, we should pay more attention at ordinary times. In order to improve the physical fitness of the patients, enhance the disease resistance ability of the patients, as well as the treatment tolerance, the diet of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma must be rich in protein, vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients, and choose more heat clearing and detoxification, fire purging and cold food, And the food of resolving phlegm.