Diet after thyroid surgery

The thyroid gland is a very important secretory organ in the human body. Thyroid adenoma is a common tumor that occurs on the thyroid gland and is generally benign. Middle-aged women aged 40 are more likely to suffer from thyroid adenomas. Once they are sick, they must receive timely treatment because of the possibility of malignancy. The most common solution is surgical treatment. Diet after thyroid adenomas surgery can promote recovery. Let’s take a closer look at the situation.

In the early period after surgery, nutrition is generally supplied through special routes, such as intravenous hypertrophic nutrition. After the gastrointestinal function is restored, clear liquid food or liquid food can be given first, gradually transitioning to semi-liquid food, and after a period of time, gradually transitioning to soft food or ordinary food, in order to supplement the patient with large amounts of protein and vitamins.

In order to promote the patient's early recovery or receive other treatments as soon as possible, postoperative patients are generally given a nutritious diet high in protein, calories and vitamins, such as beef, mutton and lean pork, chicken, fish, shrimp, eggs and soy products. Patients can drink more milk, lotus root powder and fresh fruit juice, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

Patients after thyroid cancer surgery should pay attention to the following points in their diet: pay attention to balanced nutrition, fresh food, and light taste; control iodine intake, supplement iodine in iodine-deficient areas, eat more iodine-rich foods, such as iodized salt, kelp, seaweed, dried shrimp, etc.; eat more fresh vegetables, such as cabbage, celery, etc.; eat more fresh fruits, such as tangerines, oranges, chestnuts, etc.; avoid spicy food.

1. The recipe structure should be reasonable, and the patient's recipe must not be simple and monotonous. There should be many varieties, new styles and reasonable structure. When making a recipe, we should try our best to: combine lightness with high nutrition and high quality, combine softness and easy digestion with rich vitamins, combine freshness with cold, hot, warm and neutral taste of the food, and combine the total amount supplied with the cold, hot, deficiency and excess symptoms of the patient's internal organs.

2. Pay attention to cooking and eating methods, and try to increase 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, aroma, 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 and frequent meals according to the patient's digestive ability, a combination of coarse and fine foods, liquid food, alternating soft and hard foods, and switching between sweet and salty foods. Create a pleasant atmosphere when eating and try to eat with your family. Before eating, try to avoid adverse stimuli such as oil smoke. During the intervals between radiotherapy and chemotherapy, patients should take advantage of the opportunity when their appetite improves to supplement nutrition.

3. The total calories that cancer patients consume from food every day should generally be as close to the minimum requirement for normal people as possible, that is, more than 10 kilojoules per day. This is because cancer patients have high protein decomposition and reduced anabolism function, and their nutrition is in a negative nitrogen balance state where income is not enough to cover expenditure, so the demand for protein should be increased. Generally, daily protein intake should reach 1.5 grams per body weight, and should be mainly high-quality protein, such as eggs, milk, meat, soy products, etc.

Patients who have undergone surgery may experience nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite. They can eat some cinnamon, coix seed, adenophora, reed root, polygonatum, Poria, etc. At the same time, they should insist on staying active in bed after surgery, and insist on full-body exercise after getting out of bed to improve their disease resistance and enhance their immune function.