Dietary principles for patients with laryngeal cancer

If laryngeal cancer patients want to recover soon, the dietary problems in daily life cannot be ignored. Good eating habits can promote the early recovery of patients. The specific dietary principles are as follows:

1. Eating more easily digestible and absorbable protein foods, such as milk, eggs, fish, and soy products, can improve the body's ability to fight cancer. Among them, milk and eggs can improve protein disorders in patients after radiotherapy.

2. Eat an appropriate amount of sugar to supplement calories. Patients who have received high-dose radiotherapy may have their sugar metabolism destroyed, glycogen levels sharply reduced, lactic acid in the blood increased and could no longer be used, and insulin deficiency worsened. Therefore, patients should supplement some glucose and eat more sugar-rich foods such as honey, rice, noodles, potatoes, etc. to supplement calories.

3. Eat more foods that have anti-cancer effects, such as soft-shelled turtle, mushroom, black fungus, garlic, seaweed, mustard and royal jelly.

4. Vitamin A and C can prevent cell malignancy and spread and increase the stability of epithelial cells. Vitamin C can also prevent the general symptoms of radiation damage and increase the level of white blood cells. Vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cell aging. Vitamin B1 can promote the patient's appetite and alleviate the symptoms caused by radiotherapy. Therefore, you should eat more foods rich in the above vitamins, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, sesame oil, cereals, beans, and animal offal.

5. Patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy are generally not suitable for eating cold food or cold drinks. This is because radiotherapy and chemotherapy can easily damage the Qi of the middle-jiao spleen and stomach, and Chinese medicine believes that raw and cold food, especially frozen food (food in the refrigerator), can also easily damage the stomach Qi. For patients with symptoms of yin deficiency and dryness, which are more common in radiotherapy patients, they can be given Chinese medicine soups such as wolfberry, Chinese rhizoma schisandrae, Pseudostellariae Radix, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Adenophora odoratum, and Polygonatum odoratum for dietary therapy.