Postoperative care of esophageal cancer requires keeping diet light and easy to digest, appropriate exercise and observing the drainage fluid.
1. Keeping diet light and easy to digest, patients’ digestive ability will be affected after esophageal cancer surgery, so they need to keep a light diet and try to take porridge and soup as the main food, and at the same time reduce eating too hard and spicy food.
2. Appropriate exercise, according to the recovery condition of patients after surgery, they can do daily exercise to promote the recovery of wounds, they can try indoor slow walking first, and then outdoor activities slowly.
3. Observe the drainage fluid, closely observe the drainage fluid in the chest area, if there is bleeding, turbidity and other phenomena, there may be active bleeding, esophageal anastomotic fistula, etc., and need timely treatment.