What to eat during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer

Currently, the incidence of cancer is rising rapidly due to various environmental and lifestyle factors. Cancer has become the second leading cause of death. Among them, nasopharyngeal cancer has ranked first in the incidence rate of head and neck malignant tumors. Its incidence is also characterized by regional clustering and high familial incidence.
. Nasopharyngeal cancer is generally treated with radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy. Radiation reactions during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer are mainly manifested as dizziness, headache, insomnia, prone to losing temper, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and other complications. The main complications include dry mouth and soft tissue fibrosis. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, etc. Chemotherapy can cause leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, liver and kidney damage, and severe nausea and vomiting. For this kind of situation, traditional Chinese medicine can be used for conditioning, such as taking ginsenoside R. It can eliminate the toxic side effects during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, enhance the sensitivity of the drug, and improve the efficacy.
During radiotherapy, patients with nasopharyngeal cancer should drink more water and light drinks, juice, milk, etc. Staple food should be semi-liquid or soft and rotten food. As for non-staple food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, especially carrots, water chestnuts, white radish, tomatoes, lotus root, white pears, citrus, lemons, hawthorns and other fruits. The food should be light and sweet, and it is not advisable to drink too much raw or cold drinks to avoid cold and hurt the appetite. Chewing plums, mangosteen, olives, green fruits, etc. can stimulate saliva secretion and reduce the symptoms of dryness.
During radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer, the diet should be supplemented with meals and complementary foods should be used less to produce dampness, reduce phlegm, sticky heavy turbidity, fat, glycol, and food with the effect of reducing phlegm and dissipating stagnation, such as kelp, seaweed, asparagus, jellyfish, etc. When symptoms of liver-fire inflammation occur, such as dizziness, deafness, bitterness in the mouth, impatience, and irritability, you should choose products that clear the liver, purge heat, nourish yin and subdue yang to relieve symptoms, such as chrysanthemum tea, fried cassia seed, coffee, Kuding tea, day lily, bitter melon, wolfberry seedlings, plums, abalone, mustard greens, etc. .
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During radiotherapy, most patients with nasopharyngeal cancer suffer from insufficient qi and blood, toxic fire inflammation, and extremely poor appetite. Therefore, during radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer, the diet should stimulate appetite and increase intake is the fundamental measure to ensure treatment. Therefore, it is advisable to choose foods that are easy to digest, have sufficient nutrition, and have good color, flavor, and flavor, such as porridge, soup, and soup. The food preparation should be moist, delicious, aromatic and turbid, such as rock sugar, barley rice porridge, coriander, stewed large carp, fresh pomegranate, fresh plum, mandarin, citron, pineapple, green plum, water chestnut, white pear, etc. Taking Tibetan green fruits and fresh mountain plants in your mouth at ordinary times has the effect of anti-inflammatory, sterilizing, clearing the throat and promoting fluid production.
. Ginsenoside R
can prevent and reduce the toxic and side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy
. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are treatments that use anti-cancer drugs or radiation and have good short-term effects on a variety of cancers. However, while chemoradiotherapy kills cancer cells, it also does not selectively kill normal tissue cells, which is often called toxic side effects or adverse reactions of chemoradiotherapy. The most common clinical adverse reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy include bone marrow suppression: The most significant characteristic of adverse reactions caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy is that they often attack those tissues and organs with strong proliferation, especially damage to the blood system, which is the most common clinically. Mild adverse reactions can cause peripheral blood cells to decrease to varying degrees, but they can recover on their own after stopping treatment. Severe adverse reactions can cause bone marrow suppression, leading to a significant decrease in the patient's peripheral blood cells, and secondary severe infection due to a significant decrease in white blood cells and a significant decrease in platelets. Decreased and resulted in fatal bleeding. Therefore, myelosuppression is the key to the smooth progress of anti-cancer treatment and the clinical efficacy.
Gastrointestinal adverse reactions: Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cause gastrointestinal adverse reactions with varying degrees of gastrointestinal mucosal damage. Mild cases include stomach discomfort, nausea, and an inability to think about eating. Severe cases include stomach pain and abdominal pain. Vomiting not only seriously affects eating, but can even lead to disorders of water, electrolyte and acid-base balance, severe malnutrition, etc., thus reducing the patient's quality of life.
Organ function damage: Almost all chemotherapy drugs can cause organ damage
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Liver damage: In mild cases, abdominal distension, nausea, loss of appetite, and even jaundice can occur in severe cases, liver failure.
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Kidney damage: Clinical manifestations such as oliguria are common when there are no obvious symptoms in the early stage. Abnormal urea nitrogen and elevated blood creatinine are often signs of chronic or acute renal insufficiency
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Heart damage: It can aggravate existing heart disease and induce severe arrhythmia, the manifestation of which is cardiac insufficiency. Severe cases such as rapid premature beats and bradycardia can lead to heart failure.
Reduced immune function: The immune function of cancer patients is in a state of obvious disorder. They lose the ability to monitor cancer cells and mistakenly regard cancer cells as part of themselves, allowing cancer cells to continue to grow and multiply rapidly in the body. At the same time, radiotherapy and chemotherapy further destroy the patient's immune function, leading to further decline in immune function. This can lead to serious infections and worsen the condition.
In addition, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can also cause hair loss and skin damage.
. In summary, the adverse reactions caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy not only affect the patient's quality of life but also lead to failure of cancer treatment and ultimately shorten the patient's survival period. Therefore, overcoming the adverse reactions caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy has always been the focus of clinical research.
. According to the existing experimental research literature, R
can combat adverse reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the following aspects.
It can resist the damage caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy to peripheral blood cells and also has obvious protective and promoting effects on bone marrow hematopoietic function. Effective prevention of bone marrow damage during radiotherapy and chemotherapy is conducive to completing the cycle of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and improving clinical efficacy.
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It is not only a tonic agent for tonic treatment, but also a protective agent for the functions of various organs and tissues, including the gastrointestinal tract. It can effectively protect the gastric mucosa, improve gastrointestinal function, increase appetite and food intake, and significantly reduce fatigue. Gastrointestinal adverse effects caused by chemotherapy.
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Can increase the specific and non-specific immune functions of cancer patients. Strengthen the patient's constitution, improve disease resistance, reduce the chance of infection, and increase the tolerance of the patient's tissues and organs to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Resist organ function damage caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy by protecting organ function.
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