Oncology patients, what should be done?

The New Year is also a hurdle for tumor patients, they can’t miss both the holidays and the cure, they can have a good year, winter is coming, can spring be far away? Therefore, it is crucial for tumor patients. So, as tumor patients, they should do the following points: a. Control your mouth During the New Year, food is much richer than usual, chicken, duck, fish and meat, wine and delicacies are countless. Tumor patients should control their mouths, not to eat more or eat indiscriminately. They should keep their daily eating habits: breakfast is eight minutes full, Chinese food is nine minutes full, and dinner is half full. Food meat and vegetarian mix, generally seven points of vegetarian food, three points of meat and fish. Dinner is best not to eat any meat food, put meat food in the morning or noon to eat. Fresh meat is the main food. Preserved fish and bacon contain a lot of carcinogenic substances such as nitrite, which will increase the burden of esophageal cancer patients or cause esophageal cancer if consumed in large quantities or for a long time. The variety of food should be diversified, preferably not less than 8 to 10 kinds per meal, which can be made into two or three plates, let’s say, cabbage plus black fungus, thousand sheets, green pepper and lean meat, which is 5 kinds. After eating a good meal, try to eat less or no snacks, so that the gastrointestinal work and rest, to maintain good digestive function. When eating, be sure to chew and swallow slowly. Chewing can promote saliva secretion, saliva has very important functions: moisten the mouth and food, facilitate speech, swallowing and tongue taste buds to receive taste stimulation and fully get taste; clean mouth, protect teeth; protect the role of the gastrointestinal mucosa, full chewing so that saliva increased people, gastric ulcer incidence is lower; reduce the toxicity of carcinogenic substances in food, some scholars believe that chewing for more than 30 seconds, can play this Some scholars believe that chewing for more than 30 seconds can play this role; it may improve the immune function of human body and strengthen the body. In addition, tumor patients must not smoke and drink. For normal people, they can quit smoking and limit alcohol, but for tumor patients, it is better to avoid alcohol. The cigarette contains nicotine and nitrosamines, which are toxic carcinogens; alcohol can stimulate the secretion of hormones, thus affecting the susceptibility to malignant tumors, which can trigger or aggravate the condition of various tumor patients, especially gastrointestinal tumors such as liver cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer, etc. Sleeping on time During the New Year, there are many people coming and going, which is easy to disrupt the work and rest routine and is not conducive to the recovery of patients. As the New Year is in winter, the author advocates early to bed and late to rise. General tumor patients should keep 6-8 hours of sleep. It is better to take a half hour nap at noon, but not more than 1 hour. After 9:00 pm, they should go to bed and should not get up before 5:00 am for activities or exercise. A good sleep rhythm is an important guarantee to improve the quality of sleep. Sleep is a very good medicine for tumor patients. Sleep is the main way to eliminate physical fatigue. Good sleep can strengthen the immunity and enable the body to recuperate and recover. Under normal condition, human body can produce antibodies to various antigenic substances that invade and remove them through immune reaction to protect human health. Sleep can enhance the body’s ability to produce antibodies, thus strengthening the body’s resistance; at the same time, sleep can also accelerate the self-healing of various tissues and organs. In modern medicine, sleep is often used as a therapeutic tool to help patients get through the most painful periods in order to facilitate the recovery of diseases. In addition, sleep can promote mental health. Sleep is important to protect people’s psychological health and maintain normal mental activities, which can relieve anxiety, tension and pain of tumor patients and enhance patients’ confidence and strength to overcome the disease. Because of poor sleep, it will then let patients focus their attention on the body and tumor and think about the wrong things, which is very detrimental to the recovery of the disease. The first thing you need to do is to take care of yourself in the winter, but it is not advisable to lie still and recuperate. Appropriate exercise can not only promote blood circulation, accelerate body metabolism, promote appetite, improve sleep, further regulate the physical condition of cancer, but also to a certain extent can relieve the tension and anxiety, release mental stress, which is conducive to long-term maintenance of stable and good emotion, thus directly adjusting endocrine and immune function, allowing patients to physical and mental coordination, and create conditions for recovery. The activities for tumor patients in winter should be arranged in clear weather and after the sun has fully risen, and at the same time, choose places with good air circulation and fewer people to carry out. Aerobic exercise should be the main activity, with slight sweating, not like water dripping. If you sweat, be sure to change your underwear in time to prevent a cold. If physical conditions allow, you can consider going on a trip. A change of environment is also a change of mood, a way of living. Let patients see the hope of survival and the joy of life, which can well stimulate their fighting spirit and energize for spring. Tumor patients generally should not go out alone, they should be accompanied by their family members, pay attention to their ability and should not be strained; avoid accidents and return with pleasure in order to benefit disease recovery and favorable treatment or recovery. Those who are anemic or have low white blood cells or are physically weak should not live at home, and it is better not to be bedridden for a long time, with their clothes stretched out and their mouths open. If you are bedridden for a long time, your body functions will decline, and you will easily become tired and weak, lose your appetite, get short of breath and lose weight. In the long run, patients will lose their confidence in life. For these patients, it is enough to walk around indoors or in the courtyard, shaking hands, patting the body, lifting the legs, for about 15 to 30 minutes each time, 2 to 3 times a day. Although you can’t go far, it’s not a bad idea to visit each other in the neighborhood. Watching television, computers, cell phones and so on, it is best not to last longer than 1 hour, Chinese medicine believes that long vision hurts the blood. That is, excessive use of the eyes, resulting in visual fatigue, causing dizziness, dry eyes, increased blood pressure, and even cervical spondylosis. As the saying goes, cancer is born from the heart, and also extinguished from the heart. Therefore, tumor patients must maintain a positive, optimistic and upward-looking mentality, and it is especially important to maintain such a sunny mentality during the Spring Festival. If you smile, you will have less than ten years; if you worry, you will have a white head. Research has proven that laughter is the most natural and least side effect pain reliever. When you laugh, the happy hormone in the brain will be released, happy hormone is the most effective pain relief chemicals, can ease the body of a variety of pain, so some people suffering from rheumatism, arthritis, but also to often laugh to alleviate the condition. Laughing can increase the white blood cells in the body and promote the circulation of antibodies in the body, which can enhance the immune system and fight against germs. In addition, laughing also helps blood circulation, accelerating metabolism, giving people a very energetic feeling. Studies have shown that people who are funny and enjoy talking and laughing with others have a lower chance of developing cardiovascular disease. Since laughing leads to better blood circulation, blood flow can avoid the accumulation of harmful substances, thus reducing the threat to blood vessels and the chance of heart disease. Laugh up and get a strong heart. During the cold winter months, people are generally depressed, and during the Chinese New Year, tumor patients have particularly complicated emotions. Oncology patients are very sensitive. Every look, every word, every gift from people around him can make him consciously and unconsciously associate his condition. Therefore, it is necessary to create a joyful atmosphere, which will bring joy and hope to the patient. It is important to care for him, but not to show excessive concern, but to make the patient suspicious and suspicious. Appropriately let the patient watch some entertaining, humorous and other comedy-filled movies, TV or comedy skits. Do your best to chat with the patient and talk about topics of concern and interest to the patient, but do not involve unpleasant things. In addition, some patients are unaware of their condition, so those in contact with them should maintain a consistent tone and use good-faith “lies” to comfort them. However, when the patient is recovering well and has some mental capacity, he/she should be told the truth to avoid forgetfulness and happiness. Fifth, the medicine follows the Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, many people speak of taboos, lucky, think that the New Year to take medicine, the year to take medicine. In order to discuss a good omen, many tumor patients stop taking medicine or reduce the dosage without permission, which is very bad. Tumor is a chronic disease and must be treated for a long time. Although sometimes there is no obvious curative effect during the medication, the adverse effects of stopping the medication sometimes show up soon. It is easy to destroy trees and hard to plant them. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, no matter at home or out, you must bring good drugs and insist on treatment, so that you can enjoy the festival and cure the disease. The cause of tumor is very complex, patients must follow the doctor’s orders to take drugs on time and in the right amount, and must not let down their guard. Many patients stop their medication at this time and give a small holiday to their treatment. Doctors should let patients understand that taking medication does not invite bad luck. It is also the season when various diseases start to recur, so you should not stop taking medication and give tumors a chance to take advantage of it. Insisting on taking medication during Spring Festival, the medication will not leave the body, and the tumor is effectively controlled without any sign of recurrence, which is in itself a great fortune, creating conditions and providing opportunities for subsequent consolidation treatment. Health is blessing, and New Year is a prayer for blessing. If irregular treatment or discontinuation of medicine leads to the recurrence of tumor, it is the bad luck brought by not taking medicine. During the Chinese New Year, the weather is cold, and there are many people visiting friends and relatives, and tumor patients have low immunity, so it is easy to catch a cold. Although the cold is the most common disease, in recent years many medical doctors at home and abroad have agreed that it is “the source of all diseases” and “the main enemy” that affects human life. Foreign experts have done special investigation and research, more than 80% of common diseases in the elderly initially induced by the cold. The skin is located on the surface of the human body, covering the whole body, the skin is not only the first line of defense against external invasion, but also the largest organ of the human body. The pores of the skin are closed after a cold, which affects the breathing of the skin, so the waste in the body cannot be discharged, forming a blockage, and the lung function is directly affected. Over time, various diseases, including cancer, can arise or worsen. Therefore, it is said that prevention of cold is prevention of cancer. During Spring Festival, tumor patients should not go to crowded places such as parties, temple fairs, banquets and mahjong halls as much as possible, and in case they have to go, they should not stay for too long. To strengthen personal protection, add clothes timely according to the temperature change. Keep the indoor air fresh, open the window twice a day and ventilate for more than 30 minutes each time. Ventilation can not only discharge carbon dioxide in exhalation and ensure sufficient oxygen in the room, but also the ultraviolet ray in sunlight has the effect of sterilization, which is conducive to the purification of indoor air.