Post-intervention dietary management for liver cancer patients

  Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma often have poor appetite and do not think about eating after interventional treatment, so in the process of maintenance, we should focus on improving the patient’s appetite and encouraging eating. It can be advanced in the order of fluid juice, semi-fluid, soft food and normal diet, with one to two levels of advancement in 1~2 days according to the specific recovery situation.  Give high protein, high calorie, high vitamin and low fat food, such as lean meat, fish, poultry and eggs, dairy products, soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits. Limit the intake of animal oil.  Diversify the diet, pay attention to the food mix, to achieve the color, aroma and taste, in order to promote appetite.  Eating should be easy to digest soft food, avoid hard, spicy products, less fried food, a small number of meals.  Avoid irritating and excessive plant fiber foods, especially the intake of fish spines and chicken and duck bones, which may cause hemorrhage of esophageal or fundic veins.  Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, or use juice drinks instead. Take appropriate vitamin supplements.  Drink more water in febrile patients to facilitate heat dissipation. Patients with frequent nausea and vomiting should temporarily fast or eat in small amounts to reduce food irritation to the stomach, increase the number of vomiting, loss of body fluids and physical exertion.  Patients with ascites should limit sodium intake and be given a low salt or salt-free diet.  Patients in pre-hepatic coma or hepatic coma should be given a low-protein diet with a total of 20-40g of protein per day, and try to use animal proteins with high bioavailability, such as milk, eggs, lean meat, etc.  At the same time, it is important to keep the bowels open, and patients with constipation should eat foods rich in fiber. It is recommended to drink some sesame oil and honey water every day.