Diet care for esophageal cancer

Patients with esophageal cancer are generally weak. During the treatment, some normal cells will be damaged, resulting in toxic and side effects. At the same time, the immune function will decline and the digestive system will be affected. If the patient has a loss of appetite, he or she needs to eat more food that stimulates the appetite, but he or she also needs to pay attention to the following dietary taboos.

Nine "no's" to remember when eating for esophageal cancer, so that you can recover faster

1. Patients with esophageal cancer should avoid eating overheated, rough or acidic foods to reduce the pain caused by local irritation.

2. Family members of esophageal cancer patients should not buy stale or rotten vegetables and fruits in order to save money.

3. Don’t eat too much meat because meat is high in fat. You can eat more fish and shrimp to meet the body’s protein needs.

4. Moldy rice, noodles, peanuts and other foods contain carcinogenic aflatoxin. Once discovered, they should be discarded and not eaten.

5. The water in the water tank should be renewed every 2 to 3 days. Do not always keep the stub, because the bacteria in the sediment at the bottom of the tank can reduce the nitrate in the water into carcinogenic nitrite.

It is worth mentioning that the quality of drinking water in areas with a high incidence of esophageal cancer is often poor. Although it contains very little carcinogenic nitrosamines, it contains a large amount of nitrates, nitrites and amine compounds. These substances can not only be converted into nitrosamines under appropriate conditions in vitro, but can also be converted into nitrosamines in the human gastrointestinal tract and bladder.

6. Foods such as pickles and bacon contain carcinogenic nitrites, so they should be eaten less or not. Nitrosamines are more common in meat and fish treated with nitrites, such as bacon, ham, sausage, salted fish and smoked foods. Scientific experiments have confirmed that there are nearly 30 kinds of nitrosamine compounds that can induce esophageal cancer or tumors of other organs in animals when administered orally or parenterally. Lin County in Henan Province is a high-incidence area for esophageal cancer. The content of nitrosamines in some grains in this area is significantly higher than that in areas with low incidence of esophageal cancer.

7. Smoked fish, meat, sausages and other foods contain carcinogenic tar and should be eaten less.

8. Don’t use too much oil when cooking. Studies have shown that the occurrence of esophageal cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and ovarian cancer are all related to excessive fat intake.

9. Do not smoke or drink strong alcohol.

Dietary taboos will vary according to the severity of the disease. For patients with this type of disease, the most important diet should be based on vegetable soup, rice soup and some vegetarian food, and the food eaten needs to be light.