About diet and nutrition for oncology patients

First, how to look at the “taboo” taboo, generally refers to what not to eat or eat less, or refers to illness and medication during the need to pay attention to the diet, or the taboo on certain foods. Contains the meaning of abstinence, abstinence, taboo, usually also said “taboo mouth”. Chinese and Western theories are different, and Chinese medicine attaches more importance to the taboo. When taking Chinese medicine to clear internal heat, should not eat onions, garlic, pepper, mutton, dog meat and other hot food; in the treatment of “cold” taking Chinese medicine, should be prohibited to eat cold food. In Chinese medicine, there are a lot of instructions for taking medicine, and it is not advisable to eat certain foods together with medicine to avoid reducing the efficacy or aggravating the disease. For example, avoid radish when taking ginseng; avoid onion when taking Changshan; avoid amaranth; avoid onion, garlic and radish when taking Dihuang, He Shou Wu; avoid tea when taking Tu Fu Ling, make Jun Zi. You should drink plain water when taking traditional Chinese medicine. When receiving Chinese medicine treatment, you should also abstain from eating and drinking according to the medical advice and requirements of taking medicine, in order to prevent reducing the efficacy or violating the principle of Chinese medicine “comprehensive regulation of yin, yang, cool, heat and the root of the cure”. In short, according to the requirements of Chinese medicine, it is still necessary to pay attention to “avoiding food” during the period of taking medicine. Tumor patients, especially those with gastrointestinal tract diseases, should not eat any cold, greasy, fishy or special stimulating food, such as ginger, onion, spicy, fried food, etc., and avoid cold, raw and cold food, which will stimulate and weaken the protective mechanism of the gastric mucosa during medication. It is important to note that although avoidance of food is beneficial to the treatment of disease, but can not be made absolute. Usually, avoidance of food is based on the disease and the nature of the medicine, do not make a generalization. For example, fish, shrimps, crabs, shellfish, tsubaki buds, mushrooms, and certain poultry and animal meat and eggs, etc., those who have suffered from allergic diseases should pay attention to choose to avoid food. For example, those who have suffered from hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, etc. should eat a light diet after the disease, and should not over-eat oily and thick-tasting things. Can cancer patients eat chicken? There is a legend among some cancer patients that cancer patients cannot eat chicken! Even eggs cannot be eaten! In our daily medical work, we are often asked by many cancer patients and their families whether they can eat chicken and eggs when they have cancer. They think that old hen and other nutritious food are the so-called “hairy food”, which will cause tumor development or recurrence if patients eat them. Our answer: This kind of caution, as mentioned above, is not based on science and is a misnomer and misrepresentation. Cancer has not been found to be necessarily related to “hair products” so far. On the contrary, tumor is a chronic wasting disease. Due to the abnormal and rapid proliferation of cancer cells and the destruction of human tissues by cancer tumors, patients consume more nutrients. Therefore, their needs for various nutrients are higher than those of normal people. It has been proved that insufficient nutrition for human and animals, long-term intake of low protein, low vitamin and diet lacking various trace elements will decrease the immune function of the body. Increasing the chance of tumors in certain tissues or potentially aggravating the cancer condition. Some cancer patients actually die from malnutrition rather than from cancer. Animals lacking vitamin A are susceptible to tumors induced by chemical carcinogens, while vitamins C and E have the effect of inhibiting the formation of certain tumors. Cancer patients, due to the damage of cancer cells to the organism, can lead to disorders of physiological functions; due to the effect of tumor toxins, it can cause changes in the metabolism of the organism; as tumors of the digestive system are more likely to cause physiological dysfunction of digestive organs, plus various anti-cancer treatment measures can also cause nutritional disorders, such as surgical treatment can sometimes cause malabsorption, vitamin deficiency and electrolyte disorders; head and neck radiotherapy can cause appetite Radiotherapy to the head and neck can cause decrease in appetite and loss of taste; abdominal radiotherapy can damage the normal function of gastrointestinal tract and cause diarrhea; chemotherapy drugs can cause nausea, vomiting and abnormal taste, etc. This shows that improving the nutritional status should be one of the important measures for comprehensive cancer treatment and recovery. If we blindly regard many essential nutrients as “hairy” and dare not eat them, it is bound to aggravate the malnutrition of patients and greatly reduce the resistance of the body, which is not only prone to various complications, but also hinders various anti-cancer treatments and directly affects the efficacy and recovery. Besides, any animal high-protein food is digested and decomposed into amino acids, fat and carbohydrates through the gastrointestinal tract and is absorbed. If tumor patients have a psychological effect of worrying about eating chicken, they should not eat it, but this is not the same as chicken will lead to tumor growth and recurrence. Can cancer patients eat eggs? Some cancer patients and patients recovering from treatment are not only afraid to eat chicken, but also eggs. They think that eggs are also “hairy”. It is suspected to promote the growth of cancer cells, and this misinformation is obviously unfounded. Eggs mainly contain ovalbumin and ovalbumin, a complete protein, 99.7% of which can be absorbed by the body. An egg weighs about 50 grams and contains 7 grams of protein and 6 grams of fat, producing 82 kcal of caloric energy. The ratio of amino acids in egg protein is very suitable for human physiological needs, easy for the body to absorb, and the utilization rate is up to 98% or more. Eggs are high in calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A. They are also rich in B vitamins and contain many other essential vitamins and trace elements, making them a good tonic. The fat it contains, which is emulsified in the yolk, is easily digested and absorbed; the lecithin and lecithin it contains are very beneficial to the human nervous system and growth and development; the protein it contains is of high quality. Nowadays, one of the nutritional compound amino acid infusion solutions commonly used in medicine is composed of 14 kinds of amino acids, which are formulated according to the structural ratio of amino acid components in eggs. This compound amino acid is called the whole egg model, which is widely used in patients with gastrointestinal diseases and digestive tract absorption disorders; for improving the malnutrition state and patients with hypoproteinemia caused by various reasons, it provides raw materials for the body to synthesize proteins, which shows that eggs are of high nutritional value to patients. Studies have shown that eggs not only do not cause tumor recurrence, but also egg yolk oil can significantly enhance physical fitness, delay aging, prevent geriatric diseases and cancer prevention. Human aging, malignant tumors and some geriatric diseases (such as atherosclerosis) are importantly related to free radical-induced lipid peroxidation in the body. It is now believed that free radicals damage the genetic material DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in cells, causing the body to age and possibly cause cellular malignancy and cancer, while egg yolk oil is rich in phospholipids (mainly lecithin) and vitamins A, E and carotene and other fat-soluble antioxidant vitamins, which have a significant antioxidant effect on the human body and play a direct or indirect role in scavenging free radicals, protecting unsaturated lipids in cell membranes and preventing them from damage by oxidation. Therefore, egg yolk oil has a delaying effect on aging, and the protein contained in eggs is far better than plant proteins such as soybeans; therefore, eggs are the most complete, most reasonable nutrient composition, the highest nutritional value, the best digestion and absorption of food, is one of the most common human intake of animal protein food, it can be said that eggs are a beneficial friend of human health. From a nutritional point of view, steamed egg custard, fried eggs and egg soup are the most desirable ways to eat. Why do cancer patients need regular review and follow up? Rehabilitation treatment is the continuation of clinical treatment, and regular review and follow-up is also the continuation of clinical treatment. After finishing the initial treatment, cancer patients should go to the hospital for regular review according to the medical prescription and keep in touch with each other for a long time. This special contact between oncologists and patients is called “follow-up visit”. This kind of follow-up is very valuable to strengthen the experience of cancer prevention and treatment. Why do cancer patients need regular review and follow-up? Even though some tumors are recently cured due to early detection and early treatment, a few patients may have recurrence or metastasis over time, and such small lesions of early recurrence or metastasis do not cause any discomfort and symptoms to patients. In addition, most of the patients are intermediate and advanced stage patients, and the initial treatment of many tumor patients is not complete enough, some of them need periodic maintenance and consolidation treatment, and some of them inevitably have recurrence or metastasis later. If early detection is made through follow-up, timely and appropriate treatment measures can be taken to control the disease again. If late detection is made, the treatment effect is often not good, and regular review or follow-up can lead to early diagnosis and treatment, and prevent late detection of recurrence or metastasis and delay in treatment. Patients may have complications, sequelae and toxic side effects after cancer treatment, and due to the lack of knowledge in this area, they may mistakenly think that the disease has recurred or metastasized and worry a lot. Through review and follow-up doctors to make it clear to patients and proper rehabilitation treatment, patients’ worries and symptoms can be relieved and survival quality can be improved. In general, cancer patients are reviewed once a month ~ once every two months in the first year after treatment, once every two to three months in the second year, and once every six months thereafter, and whenever there are special circumstances, so as to prevent problems before they occur. In addition, the follow-up work can provide important information and basis for summarizing the development pattern of tumor and treatment experience, and promote the development of oncology, so tumor patients should insist on regular follow-up.