Postoperative care for esophageal cancer patients mainly includes psychological care, wound care and dietary care.
1. Psychological care: Cancer patients have certain fear, anxiety and depression for their own condition and worry about the recurrence of their condition or poor treatment effect after operation, at this time, it is necessary to provide timely psychological counseling for postoperative esophageal cancer patients in order to alleviate their psychological pressure.
2. Wound care: there will be wounds on the body surface of postoperative esophageal cancer patients, and in postoperative daily care, it is necessary to pay attention to clean up sweat or other liquids around the wounds to avoid contamination and ensure that the wounds are dry, and at the same time, change the dressings at the wounds in time according to the specific conditions of the patients.
3. Dietary care: After surgery, patients with esophageal cancer need to gradually recover from fasting and fluids to semi-fluids and normal diets, in this process, they need to pay attention to light diet and avoid rough, spicy and stimulating foods.
It is recommended that postoperative patients and their family members should go to otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery or oncology department of regular hospitals to consult detailed precautions.