What should breast cancer patients eat after surgery

Diet therapy is one of the auxiliary treatment methods for various diseases. Breast cancer patients can enhance their disease resistance, strengthen their body and eliminate evil, reduce surgical side effects, maximize their survival time, and improve their quality of life through reasonable diet conditioning.

1. Breast cancer patients must eat more fruits (or fruit foods), vegetables (or vegetable foods) rich in vitamins before surgery, or take vitamin supplements, which can help promote tissue regeneration, reduce capillary permeability, accelerate wound healing, and reduce bleeding during and after surgery.

2. Breast cancer patients must take in enough protein. A high-protein diet can alleviate excessive protein consumption caused by certain diseases, reduce complications after breast cancer surgery, and help breast cancer patients recover as soon as possible. If the diet lacks protein, it will cause malnutrition edema, which is not conducive to wound healing and recovery after breast cancer surgery.

3. The diet should be balanced, diversified, not partial to certain foods, not taboo foods, and a combination of meat and vegetables, coarse and fine foods. When cooking, use steaming, boiling, and stewing more often, and try to eat less fried food. Dietary conditioning can include foods that nourish qi and blood, regulate qi and disperse knots, consolidate the therapeutic effect, and promote physical recovery. Such as yam powder, glutinous rice, coix seeds, spinach, loofah, kelp, loach, crucian carp, jujube, orange, hawthorn, etc.

In addition to diet, breast cancer patients should also pay attention to physical and mental care after surgery and face the disease positively and optimistically. Only in this way can it help the condition and quality of life.