What should patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma pay attention to in their diet and what are the treatment remedies?

Everyone knows that an important point in treating nasopharyngeal cancer is the need for radiotherapy, which has great side effects. What dietary precautions should patients with nasopharyngeal cancer pay attention to? Are there any folk remedies for treatment?

What should patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma pay attention to in their diet?

Nasopharyngeal cancer patients often experience dry lips, red tongue with little coating, reduced sense of smell, poor appetite and other symptoms of body fluid depletion. At this time, the patient's diet should be highly nutritious, easy to digest and balanced, with more vegetables and fruits, less or no salted fish, pickles, bacon, cured meat and other foods containing nitrosamines, and avoid spicy and stimulating foods and excessive drinking.

Especially for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting often occur. Therefore, patients with rhinitis cancer should eat a light diet and choose foods that are easy to digest, nutritious and delicious. The drugs and foods that can be used for dietary therapy include: monk fruit, lily, loquat, American ginseng, yam, lotus seeds, such as lotus leaves, water chestnut leaves, pear juice, radish juice, mung bean soup, winter melon soup, reed root soup, watermelon, pumpkin, loofah, jellyfish, loquat, kelp, water chestnut, etc. Eat more fish, meat, milk, honey, fresh vegetables, fruits, etc.

What are the treatment remedies?

Longan fruit drink

Ingredients: Longan meat, grapes and lotus root

Preparation: Juice grapes and lotus roots separately and mix them in equal amounts; wash the longan pulp with warm water

Dosage: Chew the longan pulp carefully first, then drink the mixture of grape juice and lotus root juice, and swallow the longan pulp, several times a day.

Function: Helps improve dry throat symptoms after radiotherapy

Nasopharyngeal cancer should still adhere to conventional treatment methods. After all, it is cancer, and it is very dangerous if not treated in time. We should also avoid the onset of nasopharyngeal cancer in our daily lives, especially for heavy smokers, the incidence rate is relatively high.