Issues that patients with esophageal cancer should pay attention to in their diet

The prominent symptom of esophageal cancer patients is dysphagia, which is also a serious problem in the diet of esophageal cancer patients. The dysphagia of most esophageal cancer patients occurs gradually and worsens progressively. At the beginning, the patient only has a choking feeling when eating dry food, which gradually worsens and even develops to the point where it is difficult to eat soft food or semi-liquid food. Eventually, it becomes completely difficult to drink water and eat, making the patient's nutritional status worse and worse, and finally leading to cachexia. It can be seen that difficulty in eating is a very serious problem for patients with esophageal cancer. If you or your family members have the disease, you must pay attention to dietary problems. Let me introduce some dietary issues for patients with esophageal cancer:

1. Avoid eating spicy, pungent, smelly, or fishy foods, as these foods can also cause esophageal spasms and make patients feel uncomfortable. For esophageal cancer patients who cannot eat at all, intravenous hypernutrient nutrition should be used to infuse nutrients to maintain the patient's body needs.

2. Avoid eating cold liquid food, and avoid cold noodles, milk, egg soup, etc. that have been stored for a long time. Because the narrow part of the esophagus is very sensitive to cold food, it is easy to cause esophageal spasm, nausea, vomiting, pain, swelling and numbness. Therefore, it is better to eat warm food.

3. When the patient feels choking, do not force swallowing, otherwise it will stimulate local cancer tissue bleeding, spread, metastasis and pain. If the choking is severe, liquid or semi-liquid food should be taken.

4. For patients who have been diagnosed with early and middle stage esophageal cancer, we should seize the opportunity to increase their nutrition comprehensively, give them soft food or semi-liquid food containing high protein and high vitamins, and make full use of their gastrointestinal absorption function to supplement more nutrition so that the patients can be in better physical condition.

Patients with esophageal cancer must have a proper diet and pay attention to it for your health. If you have other questions, please consult our experts online for more information.

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