How to care for patients with adrenal tumors?

Adrenal tumors are a type of tumor that can generally be divided into benign and malignant tumors. The adrenal glands are very important secretory organs in our body. So how do patients with adrenal tumors need to be cared for in daily life?

Adrenal Tumor Nursing

(1) Providing easily digestible and absorbable protein foods, such as milk, eggs, fish, and soy products, can enhance the body's ability to fight cancer. Among them, milk and eggs can improve protein disorder after radiotherapy.

(2) Eat an appropriate amount of carbohydrates to supplement calories. Patients who receive high-dose radiotherapy may have their sugar metabolism disrupted, their glycogen levels sharply reduced, and their blood lactate increased, which can no longer be used; and their insulin deficiency worsens. Therefore, supplementing glucose is more effective. In addition, it is advisable to eat more sugar-rich foods such as honey, rice, noodles, potatoes, etc. to supplement calories.

(3) Eat more foods that have anti-cancer effects, such as soft-shelled turtle, mushroom, black fungus, garlic, seaweed, mustard greens and royal jelly.

(4) Vitamins A and C can prevent cell malignancy and spread and increase the stability of epithelial cells. Vitamin C can also prevent general symptoms of radiation damage and increase white blood cell levels; vitamin E can promote cell division and delay cell aging; vitamin B1 can promote patients' appetite and alleviate symptoms caused by radiation therapy. Therefore, you should eat more foods rich in the above vitamins, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, sesame oil, cereals, beans and animal offal.

Diet and health care

1. Cancer patients should avoid eating foods containing carcinogens and cancer-promoting substances. Such as moldy food, smoked food, rotten food and food contaminated by pesticides.

2. Different treatment stages of tumors have different dietary preferences. For example, before and after surgery, you should consume a diet rich in protein and vitamins; during the radiotherapy and chemotherapy phase, you can add foods such as watermelon, wax gourd, red beans, and cabbage, all of which are beneficial to the excretion of toxins.

3. Also take into account the dietary taboos for other diseases. If the cancer patient has diabetes, a high-sugar diet should be used with caution; if it has hyperlipidemia, a low-fat diet should be used.