“Leukemia is a serious wasting disease, and the treatment of patients mainly relies on chemotherapy with a high-dose combination drug regimen. The adverse drug reactions are large, especially those of chemotherapy can cause mucositis and functional disorders in the digestive tract of patients, so attention should be paid to supplementing nutrition, maintaining water and electrolyte balance, and giving High protein, high calorie and easy to digest food. Patients should adjust their diet consciously and voluntarily with the help of their family members and pay full attention to the role of diet care in the process of disease recovery.
Due to chemotherapy, patients tend to have less saliva secretion, less digestive enzymes and poorer sense of taste, and often have poor appetite and bloating. The recipe should be changed frequently or the cooking method should be changed to make meals with good color, aroma, taste and shape according to the patient’s preference.
2, light, less oil, nutritious stew, boil, steam and other ways to do food, more nutritious and healthier and easy to absorb. Pay attention to the use of light, less oil, easy to digest and absorb the thick liquid food, such as milk punch eggs, lotus root powder punch eggs, batter punch eggs, crushed noodles, etc. You can also make some nutritious stew soup, such as lean pork and red dates soup, cabbage and pork bone soup, etc.
3, eat more calcium-rich food need long-term use of hormones patients, prone to peptic ulcers and osteoporosis. Consuming a certain amount of milk for breakfast every day can neutralize stomach acid, which is beneficial for protecting the gastric mucosa and preventing peptic ulcers. In addition, in order to prevent osteoporosis, you can choose foods with high calcium content, such as lean meat, soy products, shrimp, fish, eggs, etc.. These foods also contain a lot of high-quality protein, which can improve the body’s resistance and is a supplement to the high consumption state of the body.
4, drink more warm water due to the destruction of a large number of white blood cells, especially in chemotherapy, the serum and urine uric acid concentration increases, accumulating in the renal tubules, easy to cause obstruction and the occurrence of uric acid nephropathy. Therefore, patients should be encouraged to drink more water. Pay attention to the use of warm boiled water.
5, increase the intake of fresh vegetables and fruits fresh vegetables and fruits contain a lot of fiber and vitamins, which can not only increase the resistance, but also increase the appetite. In the early postoperative period, you can eat vegetable juice and a small amount of easily digestible fruits, the amount should not be too much each time, and you should have a small number of meals. After the basic recovery of gastrointestinal function, you can eat some light and refreshing raw cold dishes and fruits, especially during chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which have obvious appetizing effect.
6.Supplementation of trace elements pay attention to the supplementation of foods rich in iron, zinc, copper and other trace elements. Iron-rich foods include animal blood, animal liver, such as pig liver, beef liver, and other lean pork, egg yolk, sesame, mustard, celery, nori, fungus, kelp, etc. Zinc-rich foods include seafood, animal offal, lean meat, pig liver, fish, egg yolk, etc., of which oysters have the highest zinc content. Foods rich in copper include nuts (such as melon seeds, walnuts, etc.), cereals, poultry, and some vegetables and fruits, etc.
7, extend the time difference between drug administration and eating to ensure that chemotherapy patients eat daily, breakfast is optional before 6:00 a.m., dinner after 7:00 p.m., extending the time difference between drug administration and eating can reduce gastrointestinal reactions and promote food absorption.
8, to ensure water, electrolyte balance chemotherapy patients such as extreme loss of appetite, frequent vomiting, in the hospital should promptly choose the elements of the meal or large molecules of whole protein nutritional preparations to ensure water, electrolyte balance and nutrition supply.
In addition to the above-mentioned foods, we should also eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish blood, nourish bone and marrow, such as apples, oranges, red dates, duck blood, eggs, spinach, parsley, walnuts, oxtail, etc.