What should we pay attention to in diet after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and how to prevent it

What should we pay attention to in diet after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma? How to prevent it?

After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, patients should eat more foods containing vitamins A, C, and E, and eat more green vegetables and fruits. They should often eat foods that can inhibit carcinogenicity, such as kohlrabi, cabbage, carrots, rapeseed, garlic, vegetable oil, fish, etc. Eating these green and nutritious foods can prevent nasopharyngeal cancer.

Patients should note:

It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-nasopharyngeal cancer effects, such as large leafy vegetables, taro, konjac, cucumber, dandelion, kiwi, toad, frog, pupae, snake meat, and mussels. It is advisable to eat foods that have the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy: figs, eggplant, walnuts, mung beans, red beans, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, dried persimmons, black plums, watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, asparagus, lemons, jujubes, loaches, catfish, crabs, chicken blood, yellow catfish, eels, sharks, black carps, horseshoe crabs, jellyfish, pig brains, sheep brains, duck blood, goose blood, mackerel, and sea cucumbers.

Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food. Avoid hot food such as leek, onion, garlic, cinnamon and fried food when coughing up blood. Avoid greasy food.

To prevent nasopharyngeal cancer, you can take preventive measures from the following aspects:

1. Avoid being exposed to heavily polluted external air as much as possible. Because the nasopharynx is the only way for external air to enter the lungs, harmful gases first invade the nasopharynx before entering the lungs.

2. Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption.

3. Pay attention to the structure of your diet, do not be picky eaters, and eat more vegetables, fruits and other foods that contain a lot of vitamins. In terms of diet, eat less or no foods containing nitrosamines, such as pickled salted fish, pickled cabbage, bacon and certain canned foods containing nitrosamines. According to a survey, if children under the age of 10 eat salted fish, their risk of developing nasopharyngeal cancer will increase significantly, so children should not eat it.

4. Take some anti-cancer Chinese medicine, such as ginsenoside Rh2 to improve immunity, inhibit the growth and proliferation of cancer cells, and is very effective in preventing nasopharyngeal cancer.