What are the best foods to eat during chemotherapy



There is no clear statement on what food is best to eat during chemotherapy, and it is recommended to eat a light diet with balanced nutrition.

Dietary and nutritional principles during chemotherapy mainly include paying attention to dietary balance, food diversification, rationalization, small and frequent meals, eating light and easy-to-digest food, and avoiding too many taboos.

Eat more fresh vegetables and moderate amount of fruits, such as cabbage, spinach, greens, carrots, tomatoes, kiwi, grapes, etc., to replenish multi-vitamins.

Chemotherapy patients, usually accompanied by digestive discomfort symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation, etc. At this time, you need to consume light, easy-to-digest food, but you must ensure sufficient calorie intake, so you can choose light cooking of poultry, meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, to replenish the human body needs high-quality protein.

In order to avoid larger digestive reactions, you can eat smaller meals to reduce the burden on the digestive tract.

During chemotherapy, you need to pay attention to avoid the intake of bad food, such as common fried, smoked barbecue food, easy to increase the patient’s digestive discomfort, such food is likely to contain more carcinogenic ingredients, is not conducive to the patient’s health.