What are the nursing common sense for lung cancer patients? 4 nursing common sense for lung cancer patients

Lung cancer patients bear a great physical and psychological burden due to the disease, and surgery is usually used to treat the disease, which causes great psychological damage to patients. Therefore, daily care of patients is very important. So what is the nursing knowledge for lung cancer? Let's take a look at the introduction in this article.

1. Pay attention to psychological care. Lung cancer patients are prone to pessimism and world-weariness due to their own condition. The patient's friends and relatives should give more encouragement, communicate more with the patient, care and comfort the patient at all times, listen to the patient's complaints patiently, make the patient feel the warmth of their loved ones, eliminate worries, keep a good mood, and maintain the patient's hope of survival.

2. Observe the condition at any time. Lung cancer patients should go to the hospital for regular checkups. Generally, chest X-ray and liver B-ultrasound examinations are performed every other month after surgery. As time goes by, the interval between checkups can be gradually extended.

3. Prevent colds and avoid infection. Lung cancer is a respiratory disease, so patients should pay attention to preventing colds and infections, wear masks when going out, and try not to go to public places. When lung cancer patients cough up more sputum and the sputum becomes purulent, it means that the patient has secondary infection and the condition has worsened. Pay attention to take timely measures.

4. Adjust the diet. Lung cancer patients are physically weak after a long illness and consume more calories and protein. Therefore, lung cancer patients should pay attention to drinking a semi-liquid diet rich in calories, protein and vitamins.

After the above detailed introduction to the nursing knowledge of lung cancer patients, I believe that everyone now has some understanding of the nursing methods for lung cancer patients. If there are lung cancer patients in your family, you must not be pessimistic with the patients. You should give the patients confidence to fight the disease and not let the patients have psychological pressure.