What to eat after chemotherapy

summary

Cancer is a very terrible disease, we generally talk about cancer discoloration, there is no particularly good way to treat cancer, we usually use chemotherapy to deal with cancer, but after chemotherapy, although we kill the cancer cells, it will also cause damage to some of our normal cells, so we must know how to recuperate after chemotherapy Body.

What to eat after chemotherapy

1: After chemotherapy, patients will have some adverse reactions in digestive tract and oral cavity, such as nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thick and greasy tongue coating, etc. In general, we should choose more food materials to regulate qi and stomach, remove dampness and stop vomiting, such as ginger, orange, tangerine peel, white radish, hawthorn, coix seed, white lentils, yam, jujube, milk, honey, etc.

2: After chemotherapy, the patient's bone marrow is suppressed, and the white blood cells in the body will gradually decrease. So at this time, we can start from the two aspects of invigorating spleen, supplementing qi and nourishing blood, and tonifying kidney and essence. Choose yam, lentils, longan meat, jujube, peanut kernel, black fungus, pig liver, glutinous rice turtle, pig bone, cow bone, sheep bone and other food.

3: After chemotherapy, the liver of the patient was damaged in varying degrees, mainly manifested as the elevation of transaminase and jaundice index, liver pain, abdominal distension and loss of appetite. At this time, Jiaren should choose foods with the functions of clearing away dampness and heat, soothing liver and gallbladder to reduce liver damage, such as adzuki bean, watermelon peel, medlar, chrysanthemum, water chestnut, hawthorn, turtle, wax gourd, Luffa, tomato, celery, etc.

matters needing attention

After chemotherapy, patients will also have different degrees of heart damage, mainly for myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia and chronic cardiomyopathy, and patients will often feel chest tightness, palpitation, palpitation, fatigue and so on. At this time, we should choose Yiqi, Yangyin, Kuanxiong Liqi, Huoxue Huayu in our diet. Doctors recommend that we should eat some foods such as pueraria powder, jujube, lily, wolfberry, orange, hawthorn, Ophiopogon japonicus, etc.