Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor of epithelial origin in the stomach. The incidence rate of gastric cancer is about 17.6/100,000 in the world, and according to statistics, it accounts for the first place of gastrointestinal malignancies in China and the third place among all cancers in the body. The incidence rate of gastric cancer is about 17.6 per 100,000 people worldwide, which is the first place of gastrointestinal malignant tumors in China and the third place of systemic cancer. According to the statistics of World Health Organization in 2000, 42% of gastric cancer patients are in China, and the reasons may be related to dietary habits, living environment, Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and other factors.
Dietary contraindications for gastric cancer patients.
Forbid eating moldy or rotten food.
High-salt diet is forbidden.
Forbid to eat excessively stimulating food, such as chili, pepper, etc.
Avoid smoking and alcohol.
Avoid milk, sugar and high carbohydrate diet for patients after surgery to prevent dumping syndrome.
Eat less or no smoked food and excessively pickled vegetables.
Patients with gastric cancer should consume more.
Mushroom foods such as shiitake mushroom, mushroom, and polysaccharides such as lentil, coix seed, yam, etc. can improve the immune function of the body, so they have the effect of preventing and controlling cancer.
Often eat fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C and A, fiber and trace elements.
Eat seafood frequently.
Garlic can reduce the content of nitrosamine precursors-nitrite in the stomach and have a certain inhibitory effect on the bacteria that make nitrosamines, which can be consumed in appropriate amount.
Patients who have recovered well from gastric cancer surgery can consume moderate amount of milk for a long time.
During chemotherapy, stomach cancer patients can consume foods that tonify the spleen and stomach and nourish the liver and kidney, such as yam, coix seeds and jujube. To reduce the reaction of digestive tract and bone marrow suppression. During radiotherapy, foods that nourish Yin and clear heat, such as watermelon and pear, should be consumed more often.
For patients with early gastric cancer, they should be given easily digestible food, food rich in protein and fat with rotten cooking, and try to reduce the content of crude fiber in food. It must be noted that indigestible rough food can aggravate the patient’s condition.
Diet for each treatment stage of gastric cancer.
1. Protect gastric mucosa, avoid high salt, too hard, too hot, binge drinking and overeating, eat less and more meals, regular and quantitative, and eat easily digestible diet.
2.Food should be fresh, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and increase the intake of high-quality protein.
3.Patients with gastric cancer mostly have symptoms of stomach and epigastric fullness, pain and other food accumulation that cannot be eliminated, so they should eat more easily digestible food; common symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, so it is appropriate to eat light food with appetite and rebellion.
4.Foods with high nutrition and less stimulation should be used in the diet after gastric cancer surgery. The staple food should be the patient’s customary food, plus coix seed porridge and glutinous rice porridge, which are beneficial. The side dishes are fresh meat, fresh eggs, fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. Postoperative patients have 3 to 5 meals a day, and the amount of meals gradually increases, and many patients can resume the amount of meals before surgery after six months. If there is nausea and vomiting after meals, there is no need to rush, you can sit for a while or take a slow walk, the symptoms can be reduced. It can also be taken frequently with 10 grams of ginger decoction.
5.Patients with advanced gastric cancer are mostly in a state of general exhaustion, with difficulty in eating and loss of appetite, so they should eat more fresh pomegranate, fresh umeboshi, fresh hawthorn, or use orange peel, pepper, ginger, rock sugar, chicken gizzard in appropriate amount, and take them in decoction. Patients presenting cachexia state should be supplemented with more protein foods, such as milk, eggs, goose meat, goose blood, lean pork, beef and fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. Glutinous rice porridge is required to be cooked well.