What to eat and what not to eat during chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

What is suitable for nasopharyngeal cancer patients to eat during chemotherapy? What should not be eaten?

After chemotherapy for NPC, many chemotherapy drugs can change the patient's taste and smell. What changes occur depends on the individual, but a common abnormality is excessive sweetness or bitterness. Oddly, sweet foods may taste sour, and sour foods may taste sweet. Meat may taste bitter because it releases proteins in the mouth.

1. Brush your teeth several times a day with an oral cleaner such as diluted bicarbonate soda.

2. If food or drink tastes a bit bitter, add some sweet fruit, honey or other natural sweeteners.

3. If the meat tastes a bit bitter, replace it with some lighter chicken, fish or cheese.

Choose foods rich in anti-cancer ingredients: such as trace selenium and organic germanium are the natural enemies of cancer cells. Try to eat foods that can help recovery. Taste good: This is very important. In order to open the patient's appetite, they must taste good, otherwise no matter how rich the nutrition is, the patient's appetite is in vain. Prepare a lot of protein and amino acids: The body of tumor patients needs protein and amino acids to maintain vitality and improve immunity, so this is essential.

Nasopharyngeal cancer patients cannot drink milk: milk has a very low iron content, but high calcium and phosphorus content. The iron in the body can easily combine with the calcium and phosphorus in milk to produce insoluble iron compounds, making the iron content in the body even more insufficient. Nasopharyngeal cancer patients cannot eat garlic: garlic contains more volatile substances. Eating too much will inhibit gastric juice secretion and reduce hemoglobin.