What to do if you can’t eat due to esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer unable to eat can be helped by improving dietary habits, adopting nasal feeding, putting esophageal stent and other methods. 1. Improve dietary habits: patients with esophageal cancer can be regulated by improving dietary habits. They can increase the number of times of eating per day, reduce the quantity of eating per meal, and eat less and more meals. The food should be fluid or semi-fluid which is easy to swallow. 2. Nasogastric feeding: Nasogastric feeding is an important means of nutritional support for middle and late stage esophageal cancer patients, which mainly involves inserting a gastric tube into the stomach from the nasal cavity or oral cavity, and then instilling liquid food through the gastric tube to achieve the purpose of nutritional support. However, a small number of patients with severe esophageal narrowing, even unable to pass through the gastric tube, need to carry out gastrostomy in the left upper abdomen, leaving a stoma tube for application support. 3. Placement of esophageal stent: Place an esophageal stent in the narrowed area of the esophagus to open up the narrowed section of the esophagus, so as to make the esophageal tube structure restore smoothness. The above treatment modalities need to be selected by specialized doctors in combination with the patient’s condition, and the patient needs to actively cooperate with the doctor for diagnosis and treatment, and if there is any discomfort, timely follow-up.