Itchy skin after chemotherapy

This is a normal reaction and may cause itching of the skin after chemotherapy. Under the stimulation of allergens, the body may experience some discomfort or skin allergies, resulting in skin itching. You can use Chinese medicine to regulate your body and take some spleen-strengthening medicines. Reasonable Chinese medicine can prolong the patient's life and relieve pain.

When you return home after chemotherapy, you must remember these things so that you can survive with the tumor for a long time.

1. Pay attention to rest and strengthen nutrition: After chemotherapy, more than 80% of patients will feel tired and weak, so rest is very important. Some patients feel that they are in good health and go back to work as soon as they are discharged from the hospital. This is not reasonable because the patient's immune function is low after chemotherapy, which makes it easy for secondary infection.

, such as fever, cough, sputum and other symptoms.

2. Follow doctor’s advice. When patients are discharged from the hospital after chemotherapy, doctors usually instruct them to check their blood counts and liver and kidney functions every week. Some patients are cooperative and some are not. In fact, this is a continuation of treatment. In addition to killing tumor cells, chemotherapy also kills normal cells.

Such conditions may include a decrease in white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. In severe cases, infection, anemia or bleeding may occur. The trough of the blood count after chemotherapy usually occurs between ten and fourteen days. It is a gradual decrease at first, and then gradually rises to normal before the next course of chemotherapy begins. If patients can check their blood count every week, they can not only detect problems and solve them in time, but also help with the next course of treatment.

3. Nutrition needs to be strengthened because chemotherapy is very physically demanding, and in order to ensure that the next course of treatment is carried out on time, energy needs to be replenished in time. Some patients think that they should just drink more meat broth, chicken broth, or fish broth. In fact, drinking soup is one thing, the nutrition in the soup is still limited, it is best to eat the meat at the same time. Some patients think that it would be better for them to eat old turtles every day. In fact, this is not the right approach. We need a balanced diet that combines meat and vegetables, and we should eat staple foods and fruits at every meal. Eating the same dish every day can easily make you lose your appetite, so it’s best to cook it in a different way every day. Patients undergoing chemotherapy have weak constitutions and need to pay special attention to nutritional supplements. Their diet should be rich and varied, and should be light and nutritious. They should also avoid smoking, drinking, and spicy foods.

4. First, you need to keep your emotions stable. Clinical practice shows that anyone who has doubts or fears about chemotherapy

People who are anxious and fearful often experience more severe adverse drug reactions during chemotherapy. However, patients who are calm, open-minded and emotionally stable have much milder reactions. Therefore, all cancer patients who need chemotherapy should have the confidence to win the battle and accept chemotherapy in a happy mood to reduce adverse reactions and achieve better therapeutic effects.