What to do if you vomit after radiotherapy? Diet and mental adjustment

Radiotherapy is a commonly used method for treating cancer. Since chemotherapy acts on all cells in a certain part of the patient's body without targeting, it often leads to many sequelae, such as nausea and vomiting. If vomiting occurs after radiotherapy, the patient needs to be adjusted both in terms of diet and mental state.

1: First, eat small and frequent meals, 5-6 meals a day; second, eat some dry and mild foods such as biscuits or toast before meals; third, limit the amount of water you drink to 1 hour before and after meals, and try not to drink; fourth, appropriately increase the intake of foods rich in tryptophan such as pea sprouts, glutinous rice, cooked chestnuts, squid, etc.

2: Avoid sweet, greasy, spicy, fried, and grilled foods; avoid alcohol; avoid foods with strong odors, such as stinky tofu and milk cool; avoid certain foods rich in 5-Hta, such as bananas, walnuts, eggplants, etc.; avoid lying down immediately after a meal to avoid food reflux and nausea.

3: Method 2: Use a combination of Chinese and Mongolian medicine to quickly improve the patient's immune function, enhance the patient's own anti-cancer ability, and control the tumor from expanding. It greatly improves the patients' quality of life, allowing them to eat better, sleep better, feel no general discomfort, and live a life like a normal person, significantly prolonging their survival time.

4: The diet should be light and less greasy, eat small meals frequently, add a small amount of ginger juice to the dishes for seasoning, and try to avoid stale or strange-smelling protein foods. Abdominal radiotherapy sometimes causes abdominal distension and diarrhea. At this time, it is advisable to eat easily digestible, light, and less greasy foods, such as semi-liquid diets or low-residue diets, and avoid foods high in fiber and sticky, cold foods.

1: In addition to adjusting their diet, patients with esophageal cancer also need to maintain an optimistic attitude. If mental symptoms such as anxiety and depression occur, timely adjustments should be made, because bad mood can increase 5-Hta in the blood and deepen nausea and vomiting.

2: There are also therapies at home and abroad that use music to divert patients' negative emotions. Arranging patients to listen to music with a steady rhythm and constant tone can help divert emotions, but sad music should be avoided. Of course, preventive administration can also relieve nausea and vomiting. Drugs for preventing vomiting include anti-anxiety drugs such as diazepam and small doses of antiemetics, which can be taken before bedtime or half an hour before meals.

Vomiting is a normal phenomenon and patients do not need to worry too much about it. Instead, they can divert their attention appropriately, do some exercise, and maintain an optimistic attitude towards life.