Reasons for cancer patients to lose weight

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With the improvement of living standards and quality, people eat irregularly, often stay up late, often socialize, many young people like to eat barbecue food, all kinds of bad habits lead to more and more cancer teams, cells are eroded, cancer cells continue to spread, most cancer patients have obvious weight loss or weight loss, Some people have cancer because they're noticeably thin. Many cancers do not die in the end. Some of them suffer from malnutrition, and their matrix metabolism can't keep up with their life expectancy. What are the causes of cancer wasting? Let's discuss it together.

Reasons for cancer patients to lose weight

Most cancer patients have a certain degree of anorexia, due to the local effect of cancer, especially the damage of digestive tract, resulting in less food and nutrition intake. It's consumption caused by disease. It can cause bleeding, infection, body fluid loss, etc. If you think about it, the consumption is greater than the intake, the heat energy in the body can't make ends meet, and a large number of toxins can be produced in the process of cancer cell metabolism, which can inhibit the appetite of patients, resulting in loss of appetite, decreased food intake, insufficient nutrient intake and natural weight loss.

Early detection will take long-term chemotherapy, which is harmful to the body, in killing tumor cells at the same time also kill a lot of normal cells, viscera organ damage is great, self immunity will decline. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can affect the appetite of patients, can make patients appear weak, emaciated. Loss of appetite, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, some patients will have psychological anorexia due to cancer, which will inevitably make cancer patients thin.

There is a saying that cancer does not die, many of them are scared to death. Because in our opinion, cancer is like a terminal disease. There is no cure for it. In addition, it costs a certain amount of money to see a doctor, chemotherapy, surgery, and examination. Patients will be under a lot of pressure and feel that it is better to wait for death. Like looking at your own disease with a magnifying glass, too much psychological pressure leads to poor sleep quality, loss of appetite and unhappy mood. Do you think you will get fat?

matters needing attention

Starting from the diet, we should strive to maintain a normal weight and eat foods containing high-quality protein, such as fish, lean meat, poultry, nuts, seeds, eggs, low-fat bean products and beans, vegetables, fruits, etc. As the saying goes: "disease comes from the mouth", we must do a good job in food hygiene, hands with bacteria is more, we must develop a good habit of washing hands before and after meals. Keep a good attitude, regular exercise, active exercise, communicate with people, participate in some social activities, ensure adequate sleep, actively cooperate with the doctor during treatment, chemotherapy is easy to vomit, can let the doctor prescribe some antiemetic and stomach preserving drugs.