Tongue cancer patients need to follow several dietary principles

It is unfortunate to encounter tongue cancer. Not only do patients have to endure physical and mental torture, but tongue cancer also occurs in the oral cavity. Not being able to eat or speak is extremely painful and helpless for patients. However, after surgery, patients must continue to take care of their diet, which plays an important role in the recovery of tongue cancer. Let's take a look at the major dietary principles that tongue cancer patients need to follow.

Dietary principles that patients need to follow:

1. The recipe structure should be reasonable. The diet care for tongue cancer must not be simple and single. It should be diverse, new and well-structured. When making a recipe, try to combine lightness with high nutritional quality, soft and easy to digest with rich vitamins, freshness with cold, hot, warm and neutral taste, and total supply with cold, hot, deficiency and excess syndrome of the patient's internal organs. It is best to do it under the guidance of a doctor.

2. Cooking and eating methods should be particular, and efforts should be made to improve the patient's appetite. In the selection, preparation, and cooking of food, good sensory properties of food should be created, and efforts should be made in taste, color, fragrance, and shape to suit and satisfy the patient's taste preferences and habits as much as possible. It is also necessary to adopt small meals, coarse and fine combinations, liquid food, alternating between soft food and food, and sweet and salty food according to the patient's digestive ability. A pleasant atmosphere should be created when eating, and try to eat with relatives. Before eating, try to avoid adverse stimulation such as oil smoke. During the interval between radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient should take advantage of the opportunity when the appetite improves to supplement nutrition.

3. Total calories. The total calories that tongue cancer patients take in from food every day should not be lower than the minimum requirement of normal people, that is, more than 10 kilojoules per day. Because tongue cancer patients have high protein decomposition, reduced anabolism, and a negative nitrogen balance state of insufficient nutrition, the demand for protein should be increased. Generally, the daily protein intake should reach more than 1.5 grams of body weight, and should be mainly high-quality protein, such as eggs, milk, meat, soy products, etc.

4. Nutrition should be relatively balanced. According to the needs of the patient, each nutrient should be appropriate and complete. In addition to sufficient high-quality protein intake, low-fat and moderate carbohydrates should be the main ingredients. Pay attention to supplementing vitamins, inorganic salts, cellulose, etc., which can be obtained from fresh vegetables and fruits.

In addition, the dietary counseling of tongue cancer patients and traditional Chinese medicine have their common effects. On the one hand, traditional Chinese medicine can effectively kill and inhibit cancer cells and alleviate the condition. On the other hand, it can also regulate the whole body of patients, treat according to syndrome differentiation, improve clinical symptoms, enhance the body's immune function, and thus improve the overall efficacy.