Breast cancer patients often suffer from poor appetite and other adverse symptoms after surgery, and without nutritional supplements, it is more difficult for their bodies to resist the disease. Therefore, it is especially important for breast cancer patients to have a balanced diet after surgery.
Balanced diet: varied food, mainly cereals; more vegetables and fruits; frequent consumption of milk, beans or their products; frequent consumption of appropriate amount of fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat.
Reasonable nutrition: light and highly nutritious, easy to digest, a small number of meals. Improve body resistance to tolerate surgery and chemotherapy.
Promote health and eat less stimulating foods: tobacco, alcohol, coffee, cocoa, strong tea, curry, vinegar, spicy, coarse, hard, fatty, fried, moldy, pickled foods.
Stay away from hormonal foods: such as bird’s nest, snow clam, royal jelly, sheep placenta, etc. If you are a vegetarian, please pay attention to the intake of sufficient protein, and it is advisable to eat more bean foods.
Vitamin A can promote tissue regeneration and accelerate wound healing; vitamin K is mainly involved in the coagulation process and can reduce intraoperative and postoperative bleeding; B vitamin deficiency can cause metabolic disorders and affect wound healing and tolerance; vitamin C can reduce capillary permeability, decrease bleeding and promote tissue regeneration and wound healing. Therefore, breast cancer patients must eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins or take vitamin tablets before and after surgery.
Chemotherapy can cause poor bone marrow regeneration, especially the decline of white blood cells is the most obvious. To effectively prevent the decline of blood count, patients should supplement high protein diet during chemotherapy, such as milk, soybeans, lean meat, pig’s feet, sea cucumber, fish, animal liver and red dates, peanuts, walnuts, black fungus, carrots, adzuki beans, etc. Black fish, animal boiled gum peptones such as donkey skin gum (Agaricus blazei), pig skin gum (Pork skin peptones), also help to raise white blood cells. Chinese medicine attaches the greatest importance to the use of dirty to nourish dirty, so you can also increase the amount of animal bone marrow stew or diet made with chicken, duck or pig blood during chemotherapy. You can also eat more five black foods: black sesame, black rice, black beans, black dates and walnuts. Chinese medicine believes that “black can enter the kidneys”, so the five black foods can nourish the kidneys and fill the marrow, which can help improve the blood picture.
Nausea and vomiting are common side effects of chemotherapy. Different chemotherapy drugs have different degrees of side effects, but most of the nausea and vomiting can be controlled. You should consult your doctor and nurse for assistance through dietary modification and the use of necessary medications (antiemetic, rehydration, laxative, etc.). Your doctor will develop a treatment plan for you.
Some of the things you can do are as follows.
1. Chemotherapy can cause oral mucositis, which is manifested by mucosal congestion, edema, ulcers and pain. At this time, you should keep your mouth clean, brush your teeth after eating, and supplement a highly nutritious liquid or office liquid diet, such as lotus seed soup, golden ear and snow ear soup, milk, soybean milk, carp soup, etc.
2, a small number of meals, avoid eating too much food at one time. Drink water before or an hour after the meal, and do not drink too much water during the meal.
3, when eating, try to chew and swallow slowly, in order to digest better. When eating to avoid overheating, too acidic and irritating diet, acute inflammation can contain ice to reduce inflammatory exudation, ulcers can be used 20 ml of honey to add crushed vitamin C 0.1 grams, oral, 2 to 4 times a day. Ice cream can also be a try.
4, the choice of food as light as possible, avoid sweet, fried, greasy food. Can eat appetizing food, such as hawthorn, lentils, yam, white radish, mushrooms, etc., while eating less and more meals to avoid the feeling of fullness.
5.Sit on a chair and rest for a while after meals, try not to lie down flat immediately to help digestion.
The cooperation of diarrhea
1.Avoid eating high-fiber foods (such as potato foods, vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, nuts, etc.), fatty foods (such as bone soup). It is advisable to eat a light diet.
2, should choose to eat low-fiber food, such as white bread, white porridge, lean meat, eggs, melons, etc.
3, food such as apples, white porridge water, sago has antidiarrheal effect, can be eaten in moderation.
4, avoid eating coffee, milk, too strong or sweet taste and fatty food.
Constipation with
1.Eat more high fiber foods: fruits, prunes ( fresh ), oranges, vegetables, side dishes such as mushrooms, golden needles, cloud ear, sesame paste, sweet potato porridge.
2, a small number of meals, food chewed slowly, try to relax, do moderate exercise, all help to develop a good bowel habits.
Dietary management and prevention of liver and kidney injury
Some chemotherapy drugs can cause liver damage and elevated transaminases. At this time, you should eat more bitter melon, mung bean sprouts, tea, shiitake mushrooms, Agaricus blazei, goat mushrooms, purple mushrooms, Yunzhi monkey mushrooms and other mushroom food (mushrooms are cold and should be used with ginger and wolfberry), eat more vitamin-rich fruits, such as kiwi, peach, apple, grapes, etc., and drink more green tea, oolong tea, honey water. If the liver function is seriously damaged, you can use 20 grams of Wu Wei Zi and 20 grams of Chinese wolfberry to stew carp soup.
Some chemotherapy drugs can also cause kidney damage. Clinically, you should drink more water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits (alkaline food) when using such drugs. Once there is kidney damage to limit protein intake, combined with edema to eat less salt, eat more animal kidneys, fish, spinach and red amaranth, but also can eat more water-rich and diuretic food, such as watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, loofah, etc..
Diet regulation during radiotherapy
Radiotherapy consumes yin and fluid, so it is advisable to take sweet and cool nourishing food. Such as almond cream, loquat fruit, white pear, umeboshi, lotus root, banana, olive, etc.. It is advisable to eat cool food and cold drinks, but for patients with cold sensation, it is advisable to eat hot food.