What should postoperative lung cancer patients pay attention to after discharge from hospital?

       Therefore, you should have a correct understanding of your condition and the side effects during treatment, and must maintain an optimistic and cheerful mood, firmly believing that you can overcome the disease. Only by adjusting your mind, establishing confidence and actively cooperating with treatment can you mobilize your body’s internal anti-disease mechanism, and negative pessimism is very detrimental to recovery.  2, diet: maintain a normal diet, do not abstain from eating, all kinds of food as long as it is light, fresh, rich in nutrients, easy to digest can eat, do not eat or eat less spicy stimulating food, prohibit smoking and alcohol.  3, maintenance: you should pay attention to the maintenance of the respiratory tract, pay attention to the climate changes, try to avoid colds, if the occurrence of upper respiratory tract infections, should promptly seek medical treatment, thorough treatment, to avoid pneumonia. Do not stay in places with dirty air and avoid inhaling second-hand smoke.  4. Discomfort: If you still have some irritating cough, you do not need to be nervous because after lung resection, the bronchial stump may cause coughing during the healing process, and you should pay attention to the phlegm that must be coughed out in time. If the phlegm is sticky, you can take some expectorant medications such as Mucosolvan. If the cough is more serious and affects your rest, you can take some cough suppressants such as compound licorice combination, federal cough suppressant, etc.  If you feel pins and needles pain and numbness in the surgical wound, it is related to the severed nerves in the chest wall during the surgery, you should be patient, and the discomfort will slowly subside after several months.  5.Follow-up: You should insist on long-term regular follow-up, which is very important. You should review every three months for two years after the operation, then every six months, and after the fifth year, it can be extended to once a year. Your doctor will review your chest X-ray, chest CT, abdominal ultrasound, and other tests such as whole-body bone scan and cranial MRI as needed. If you have any other questions, you are always welcome to consult with us.  6.Chemotherapy: If you need to receive postoperative chemotherapy, it usually starts 3-4 weeks after surgery. The side effects of chemotherapy vary from person to person and are not as terrible as you think, so you do not need to worry too much. Anti-emetic drugs such as pivotan and obectin can be injected half an hour before chemotherapy to reduce gastrointestinal reactions. Chemotherapy is usually given once every 3 weeks, 4 times in total. Before each chemotherapy, blood test should be done to check the white blood cell and liver and kidney function.