What are the dietary principles for lung cancer patients?

As for the diet of lung cancer patients, since the treatment will consume the patient's body's nutrients and energy, good arrangements must be made in terms of diet. Lung cancer patients can eat more fresh vegetables and whole grains, which will help with absorption.

The specific dietary principles are as follows:

1. It is advisable to eat more foods that have the effects of enhancing the body's immunity and resisting lung cancer, such as coix seed, sweet almonds, water chestnuts, oysters, jellyfish, yellow croaker, sea turtle, crab, horseshoe crab, clam, sea cucumber, Poria cocos, yam, jujube, black-necked snake, green beans, shiitake mushrooms, walnuts, and soft-shelled turtle.

2. If you have a cough with a lot of phlegm, you should eat ginkgo, radish, mustard greens, almonds, orange peel, loquat, olives, tangerine cakes, jellyfish, water chestnuts, kelp, seaweed, winter melon, loofah, sesame, figs, pine nuts, walnuts, mussels, monk fruit, peaches, oranges, and grapefruits.

3. If you have a fever, you should eat cucumber , wax gourd, bitter gourd, lettuce, eggplant, hair algae, lily, amaranth, shepherd's purse, water spinach, agar-agar, purslane, plum, watermelon, pineapple, pear, persimmon, orange, lemon, olive, mulberry, water chestnut, duck, and herring.

4. For hemoptysis, it is advisable to eat green plum, lotus root, sugar cane, pear, cotton, jellyfish, sea cucumber, lotus seed, water chestnut, kelp, mustard, black bean, tofu, shepherd's purse, eggplant, milk, crucian carp, turtle, grass carp, squid, yellow croaker, soft-shelled turtle, oysters, and mussels.

5. Foods that can reduce the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy: goose blood, mushrooms, sharks, longans, eels, walnuts, soft-shelled turtles, tortoises, kiwis, water shield, day lily, jujubes, sunflower seeds, apples, carp, mung beans, soybeans, red beans, shrimps, crabs, silver beans, loaches, catfish, grass carp, salmon, green tea, and snails.

6. Eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains every day.