The damage brought by nasopharyngeal carcinoma to patients’ health is unspeakable. Every patient should actively take self-care when treating nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which can help patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma have a better physical quality and is beneficial to the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
During the development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, patients will have the symptom of blood in the snot, for which they must do a good job of self-care. When bleeding is in medium amount, local ephedrine, epinephrine gauze or nasal cotton can be used to stop the bleeding, or intramuscular injection of hemostatic drugs; when bleeding is in large amount, the patient should be instructed not to swallow the bleeding, keep sedated and report to the doctor for resuscitation in time. The patient should be made to lie down, given fluids, blood transfusion, oxygen and aspirator, ice bag placed on the upper part of the nose, nasopharyngeal cavity filled with petroleum jelly to stop bleeding, and intravenous injection of large amount of hemostatic agents, and the changes of blood pressure, pulse and breathing should be closely observed.
For patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, it is quite important to improve their nutritional absorption through a reasonable diet to reduce the consumption of the tumor itself and the consumption in radiotherapy to ensure that the patient can successfully complete the radiotherapy plan.
A balanced diet with more vegetables and fruits should be given with less oil, light, high protein, high calorie, high vitamin and more iron. Avoid smoking and alcohol, avoid stimulating the oral and nasal mucosa. After radiotherapy diet tasteless or odorless and oral mucous membrane reaction, patients should be encouraged to eat, to do a small number of meals.
When oral reaction is serious, give semi-liquid diet and encourage to drink more water. It is important for us to prevent nasopharyngeal cancer, and of course, patients with nasopharyngeal cancer should do a good job of nursing.