With the improvement of living standard, various diseases are growing, and bone tumor is one of the diseases that people often encounter. In addition to active treatment, all diseases need to be treated with proper nursing measures in order for patients to recover as soon as possible. Bone tumor is no exception. During the illness, patients’ resistance and immunity are very low, so in order to recover, nursing care must be done properly. So, how to take care of bone tumor patients?
I. Psychological care
Bone cancer patients have different degrees of psychological problems, such as fear, pessimism and despair, near death, etc. In addition, divorced or empty nest elderly patients have loneliness and abandonment feeling. For this reason, we should try our best to create a cordial atmosphere and comfortable and safe environment for patients to gain their trust, introduce disease related knowledge and medical progress to patients at the right time, and introduce more successful cases so that patients can build up confidence to overcome the disease.
II. Postoperative basic care
Tumor chemotherapy is one of the commonly used treatment methods at present, with strong professionalism. The good or bad cooperation between patients and medical personnel in chemotherapy directly affects the efficacy, so after bone tumor surgery, attention should be paid to.
1. Keep the drainage tube unobstructed: the drainage bag should be lower than the wound, observe and record the amount and nature of drainage fluid.
2.Pain care: pain seriously affects the patient’s body and mind, affects the sleep, and is not conducive to the patient’s recovery, actively stop pain.
3.Pay attention to observation: observe the vital signs and blood leakage from the wound, especially for amputees; observe the blood flow of the distal limb of the operated limb and the activity.
4, pay attention to bed rest: as far as possible not to move too much too early, family members should pay attention to the patient’s wash Shu and defecation and other life care.
5, radiotherapy care: radiotherapy patients should do a good job of the corresponding care to reduce side effects.
3. Nutritional and dietary care
Food is the material basis for cancer patients’ recovery. Paying attention to cancer patients’ diet and providing reasonable and sufficient nutrition can enhance the body’s resistance, improve patients’ tolerance to treatment, ensure the successful completion of treatment plan and promote recovery. Therefore, the diet needs to do the following.
1. Avoid foods containing carcinogens, such as vegetables containing nitrites, moldy foods, pickled, smoked, baked and fried foods;
2.Eat foods rich in protein, amino acid, high vitamin and high nutrition; eat more foods that are conducive to the excretion and detoxification of toxins, such as mung beans, adzuki beans, winter melon, watermelon, etc.
3.It is advisable to eat more foods with anti-bone tumor effect: goat blood, crab, goat brain, sea cucumber, oyster, turtle, turtle, sand worm, deer blood, dahlia, oatmeal, small amaranth, rape seed, sand date, taro, chestnut, wild grape.
4.It is advisable to eat foods with pain-relieving and swelling-reducing effects: asparagus, lotus root, cicada, hawthorn, otter meat, heron meat, crab, sea turtle, sea snake.
5. Avoid smoking and alcohol. Avoid spicy and stimulating foods, such as onion, garlic, ginger, pepper, chili, cinnamon, etc. Avoid fatty food
Four, rehabilitation exercise
Bone tumor patients need to restrict limb activities, i.e. braking, once diagnosed, because the masses occur in weight-bearing parts such as trunk and limbs. After reasonable and effective treatment, patients with bone tumor can increase their activities when they are recovering, but they should do it according to their ability and should not be overworked and tired. Regular review and functional rehabilitation exercises should be carried out under the guidance of doctors according to specific conditions. Pay attention to the patient’s exercise, and make sure, according to the ability, do not overexert to avoid negative effects.
There are benign and malignant bone tumors. Benign bone tumors are easily curable and have good prognosis, while malignant bone tumors develop rapidly, have poor prognosis and high mortality, and there is no satisfactory treatment method so far. Therefore, we must pay attention to the prevention of bone tumors.
Bone tumor prevention points
1, strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, improve resistance to disease, enhance immune function and prevent viral infection.
2.Reduce and avoid radioactive radiation, especially in the period of bone development of adolescents.
3.Avoid trauma, especially in the long epiphysis of the developing adolescent.
4.Spiritual conditioning, keep a cheerful personality, relaxed mood and no anger when things go wrong.
5, change bad habits, eat less or not eat high nitrite concentration of sauerkraut, salted fish, etc. Eat less baked smoked and fried food with high benzopyrene content, and eat less food with more yellow mold, moldy, fermented food.
Tips.
The symptom of early bone tumor is pain, which starts as hidden pain and gradually develops into persistent and severe pain, especially at night, and often wakes up in sleep. As the disease progresses, the pain is progressively aggravated, the pain site is fixed, local swelling, skin shining, epidermal redness and swelling, surface varicose veins and elevated skin temperature, etc. Some of them may be accompanied by fever, poor appetite, anemia and other symptoms. When this symptom is found, immediately seek medical examination to avoid making the condition worse.