Dietary restrictions after pancreatic surgery

After pancreatic surgery, the most important thing is diet. Patients have many dietary taboos. First of all, spicy food should be avoided. Spicy food must not be eaten. In addition, fried food, pickled food, or barbecued food should not be eaten. Food that can easily cause indigestion should also be avoided. Try to eat food that is easy to digest and less irritating.

Dietary taboos after pancreatic surgery Pancreatic cancer patients should avoid eating moldy, fried, smoked, and pickled foods, such as fish, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sauerkraut, walnuts, sesame seeds, pastries, cream, fried foods, and ice cream. In addition, hard, sticky and indigestible foods, such as leeks and celery, should not be eaten. Rough, fiber-rich foods that irritate the intestines, such as whole grains, corn, glutinous rice, etc., should also not be eaten.

Choose nutritious food: Pancreatic cancer patients should choose a nutritious, easy to digest, low-irritation, low-fat diet. They can give high-protein, polysaccharide foods such as milk, fish, liver, egg white, refined flour products, lotus root powder, fruit juice, vegetable soup, glutinous rice, etc. And it should be combined with foods that have the effects of softening and dispersing lumps, soothing the liver and regulating qi. Avoid overeating: After surgery for pancreatic cancer, a diet mainly of light, easily digestible foods is recommended. The principle of eating is "eat small meals frequently". If the patient eats too much, it will increase the digestive burden and easily cause complications. Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer should focus on replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, such as glutinous rice, red beans, broad beans, yam, wolfberry, mussels, figs, hazelnuts, milk, water chestnut powder, etc.

What symptoms should pancreatic cancer patients pay attention to ? 1. Accompanied by fatigue and progressive weight loss. Although jaundice can be the first manifestation of pancreatic cancer, it is often not an early manifestation. It is a symptom of pancreatic cancer. 2. The location of upper abdominal discomfort is deeper and the range is wider. Patients often find it difficult to point accurately with their fingers, but tend to mark a larger area on the abdomen, or place their palms on the abdomen to measure the uncomfortable area. This is a symptom of pancreatic cancer. 3. The relationship between discomfort and diet varies. Some people initially feel discomfort after meals, which may then gradually become persistent and worsen after eating. Some discomfort may also be unrelated to diet. This is a symptom of pancreatic cancer. 4. The nature of the discomfort is often vague and the patient cannot describe it clearly. This is a symptom of pancreatic cancer. 5. Generally, there is little or no acid reflux, and the effect of antacids is not significant or lasting. This is a symptom of pancreatic cancer. 6. It does not have the periodicity of peptic ulcer disease, nor is it seasonal, but it does have a progressive worsening phenomenon, gradually turning into dull pain, bloating, and back pain. These are symptoms of pancreatic cancer. The most important thing for patients after surgery is nutrition, because surgery causes the patient to lose vitality in the body. At this time, the patient is very weak and most of the nutrition is obtained from these foods. It is also easy to cause the patient to have an extreme need for food, so the patient must not eat and drink too much, which may also cause gastric indigestion.