There are two factors for late stage liver cancer not to eat and drink, one is the further development of the disease, causing hepatic encephalopathy, the patient is in a coma or semi-coma, unable to eat, in a state of not eating and not drinking, in this case we actively treat the primary disease at the same time, there is attention to energy supplementation. The energy required by the body can be supplemented by intravenous nutrition, nasal tube, nasal feeding, and if necessary, enteral nutrition emulsion. In this case, it is important to note that there may be risks in lowering the gastric tube because most patients with hepatocellular carcinoma have portal hypertension, which can easily cause esophagogastric fundic varices, and if the gastric tube is inadvertently cut during the process, it can easily cause hemorrhage.
If the patient can eat but has a poor appetite or does not want to eat, we can make the food richer, lighter and more refreshing, and make some delicacies according to the patient’s preference, but it must not be too greasy or hard to prevent the patient from inadvertently cutting the esophagus and causing hemorrhage during the eating process.