What should lung cancer patients eat?

The dietary taboos for lung cancer patients should vary according to the syndrome, the individual, and the treatment method. It is not possible to generally stipulate what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. Do not be too demanding about dietary taboos. The diet should not be too narrow and should be based on a high-protein, high-vitamin diet. The following is a detailed introduction to what lung cancer patients should eat?

1. Treat the food according to its nature, flavor and function. Food, like medicine, has four properties and five flavors, so the diet should be selected according to the cold, heat, deficiency and excess of the disease. If it is cold, it should be heated, if it is hot, it should be cooled, if it is deficient, it should be supplemented, if it is excessive, it should be drained. It is also necessary to distinguish between lung yin deficiency and lung yang deficiency. Yin deficiency should be treated with clearing supplements, and yang deficiency should be treated with warming supplements.

2. Choose a reasonable diet. Avoid eating foods containing carcinogens, such as pickled vegetables and meat containing nitrites, moldy, smoked, rotten, stale foods, foods containing food additives, and crops that are seriously polluted by pesticides. You should often eat foods that are conducive to the excretion of toxins and have a detoxifying effect, such as mung bean soup (porridge), red bean soup, winter melon, watermelon, etc.

You can also choose foods with anti-tumor effects, such as shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, Cordyceps sinensis, black fungus, and white fungus among mushrooms; lettuce, shepherd's purse, day lily, loofah, and pumpkin among vegetables; apricots, pears, bayberries, kiwis, loquats, and pomegranates among fruits; lotus roots, lilies, water chestnuts, garlic, radishes, asparagus, carrots, and tea leaves among leafy and root vegetables; and chickens, ducks, geese, crucian carp, turtles, sea cucumbers, silkworm pupae, and royal jelly among animals.

3. Try to improve appetite. The main psychological reactions of patients with advanced lung cancer are anxiety and depression, which can lead to varying degrees of loss of appetite. Therefore, psychological care should be done first to help patients build confidence, relieve their mental concerns, provide a quiet and clean dining environment, and try to leave the bed and eat at the dining table. Give Chinese medicine that stimulates the appetite and invigorates the spleen before meals, and give fruits after meals.

4. Pay attention to the variety of diet, more menus, avoid monotony, balance the nutrients, pay attention to the diet structure, do not be partial to one food, and avoid eating the same food day after day. Pay attention to the sensory properties of food. Put more effort into the color, aroma and taste. If you feel nauseous when eating, drop a few drops of ginger juice in your mouth before the meal; or acupuncture Neiguan, or inject Weifu'an Neiguan acupoint, or take Chinese medicine to reduce nausea and vomiting.

Keep bowel movements smooth. Constipation, blocked bowel movements, and stomach disharmony will lead to loss of appetite. Eat more crude fiber foods such as asparagus, celery, and bananas. If necessary, use laxatives or Chinese medicine to retain enemas. Be careful not to be too hungry or too full, and avoid eating sticky, heavy, and greasy foods that easily produce waste gas, so as not to lose your appetite.