Symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer?

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Lung cancer, this kind of cancer, if it is advanced, it can be said that the survival time is very little. If patients with advanced lung cancer live in the hospital for treatment, experienced doctors will communicate with the family members of patients with lung cancer in advance to make them psychologically prepared. So, what are the symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer before dying? Let's have a look.

Symptoms of patients with advanced lung cancer?

1. Chest pain: is a common symptom of advanced lung cancer, pain is unbearable, seriously affecting the quality of life of patients with advanced lung cancer. Shortness of breath, pleural effusion: almost all patients with advanced lung cancer have varying degrees of shortness of breath, tumor lung obstructive bronchial lymph nodes or more likely pleural effusion or shortness of breath, dense chest pain, shortness of breath or asphyxia in patients with advanced lung cancer, life-threatening.

3. Hemoptysis: Patients with advanced lung cancer also repeat small intermittent blood sputum, sometimes blood cough symptoms. Edema of face and neck: there is superior vena cava on the right side of mediastinum, which transports venous blood from upper limbs and head and neck back to heart. If the tumor invades the right side of the mediastinum and compresses the superior vena cava, it will make the jugular vein distended at first due to poor reflux, and finally lead to edema of the face and neck, which is a common symptom of advanced lung cancer.

Close observation of the vital signs of patients with advanced lung cancer, such as cough with phlegm, should encourage patients to play out by themselves, if necessary, supplemented by sputum suction device, rest and sleep with heavy head to one side of the lying position, in order to prevent phlegm and saliva suffocation, if found suddenly aphasia, face change, respiratory arrest, must immediately report to the doctor, emergency rescue.

matters needing attention

(1) Nursing patients with advanced lung cancer should first pay attention to keeping the indoor environment comfortable and the bed clean and tidy, especially for patients with advanced lung cancer who can't take care of themselves. They must turn over regularly, scrub with warm water, and massage the pressure parts often to prevent the occurrence of bedsore. (2) reasonable diet is also an important part of nursing care for patients with advanced lung cancer. Patients with advanced lung cancer have large consumption and weak constitution, so special attention should be paid to timely supplement nutrition. Diet should be rich and varied, light and high nutrition as the principle, patients can be instructed to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, avoid spicy and stimulating food, while ensuring the supply of nutrition to enhance the immune disease resistance of patients. (3) pay attention to the mental and psychological nursing of the patients with advanced lung cancer, communicate with the patients at any time, listen to the patients patiently, and make the patients feel the warmth of their relatives. Give patients more spiritual and psychological comfort, eliminate their fear of death, how to care after lung cancer surgery, establish the self-confidence of patients with advanced lung cancer to overcome the disease. We should constantly encourage patients to actively participate in some social activities within our ability.