Nursing principles for kidney cancer

In previous articles, we introduced the symptoms and causes of kidney cancer. We also introduced some nursing care after kidney cancer surgery. Today, in order to provide more detailed care for kidney cancer patients, we will introduce some principles that need to be paid attention to in the daily care of kidney cancer patients.

1. Emphasize balance and focus on strengthening the body and replenishing the deficiency

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "internal deficiency" is the main contradiction in the occurrence and development of the disease. Deficiency leads to cancer, and cancer leads to deficiency. Deficiency is mixed with excess, and deficiency is the basis. The purpose of diet therapy is to ensure that kidney cancer patients have sufficient nutritional supplements, improve the body's disease resistance, and promote the patient's recovery. The general principle should be to strengthen the body and replenish deficiency.

2. Be familiar with the nature and flavor of food, and emphasize the differentiation of symptoms and the application of food

Kidney cancer is like other diseases. Patients have different yin and yang, cold and heat, deficiency and excess. Food also has different four properties and five flavors: cold, hot, warm, and cool, pungent, sweet, bitter, sour, and salty. Heat syndrome is suitable for cold and cool, and cold syndrome is suitable for warm and hot. The five flavors enter the mouth and each has its own destination. Sweet enters the spleen, pungent enters the lungs, salty enters the kidneys, bitter enters the heart, and sour enters the liver. Diet therapy should be based on the principle of syndrome differentiation. It should vary according to the disease and the person, and cannot be stereotyped.

3. Choose anti-cancer foods in a targeted manner

Medicine and food have the same origin, and some foods have both therapeutic and anti-cancer effects, so they can be selected and applied in a targeted manner. For example, sword beans are sweet and warm in nature, and have the functions of warming the middle and lowering the qi, nourishing the kidney and strengthening the spleen; coix seeds contain coix seed fat, which has a significant inhibitory effect on cancer cells; daily foods such as garlic, soy products, green tea, figs, almonds, water chestnuts, black plums, lilies, white fungus, and clam meat are also good anti-cancer medicines; shiitake mushrooms, water shield, and longan all have different degrees of immunity and therapeutic effects.

For kidney cancer patients, because the body has acidic characteristics, TCM methods are more inclined to conditioning in daily care. Whether it is diet or lifestyle, TCM treatment methods can be used to increase the patient's own resistance. Therefore, kidney cancer patients can try it in daily life.