How to make chemotherapy patients want to eat?

People will encounter some diseases in their lives. However, many diseases are caused by people’s bad living and eating habits. If some bad habits are maintained for a long time, some more serious cancers will occur. Chemotherapy is the most common way to treat cancer, but there are always some chemotherapy patients who are unwilling to eat, and their families have no good way to deal with this. So, how do you get chemotherapy patients to want to eat?

First, how to make chemotherapy patients want to eat? Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment method, but the current mechanism of action of chemotherapy drugs is mainly to inhibit the explosive division of cancer cells. However, some cancer cells are relatively stable and are the same as normal cells for a period of time. In this way, chemotherapy drugs cannot react, but they may mutate into division at any time, so the treatment will not be thorough; and there are great side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, rash, hair loss, decreased immunity, physical weakness, etc. Combining with Chinese medicine can reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy, enhance the effect, and play an important role in the patient's body recovery.

Second, chemotherapy drugs often cause a series of gastrointestinal reactions in patients, such as nausea and vomiting, decreased appetite, and loss of appetite, which in turn causes patients to eat less, suffer malnutrition, and even become noticeably emaciated and in a cachectic state. Guidance: Try to find ways to improve the patient's diet and increase his appetite. (1) There should be a variety of food types and the cooking methods should be diversified. While ensuring nutrition, pay attention to color, aroma and taste to improve the patient's appetite. (2) For patients with severe reactions to chemotherapy, in order to avoid greasy stimulation that aggravates nausea and vomiting, light and refreshing salads and fruits with little or no oil, or some acidic foods can be used to stimulate the appetite, such as vinegar-mixed radish, sweet and sour cabbage hearts, shredded carrots, mixed bean sprouts or fruit salad, etc. (3) Avoid spicy foods, such as chili peppers, white wine, etc. During chemotherapy, you should also choose foods that are highly nutritious and less irritating.

How can we make chemotherapy patients want to eat? Generally, chemotherapy has a great impact on the stomach, and it becomes more and more difficult to persist as time goes by. However, even if the side effects of chemotherapy are minimal, it can easily damage the yin essence. The diet should avoid greasy, spicy, irritating, and pickled foods. Meat and vegetables, coarse and fine foods can be combined. Steaming, boiling, and stewing are appropriate, and fried foods should be eaten less. Homely, light and with ecological ingredients are the best. You can give the patient some easy-to-digest and appetizing tomato dumpling soup (preferably with lean meat), hawthorn slices, lotus root powder, steamed buns, oatmeal porridge, vegetarian dumplings, chicken soup noodles. In short, make whatever is appetizing and easy to digest. If you make two or more of them, the patient will have more choices. Also note: Keep warm after chemotherapy, avoid colds, sleep on time, exercise moderately, eat more selenium-containing foods after chemotherapy, such as Selenium Weikang chewable tablets, to reduce side effects and enhance appetite. Patients should also pay attention to drinking more boiled water to enhance circulation in the body, which is also helpful in reducing side effects.