What is good to eat after esophageal cancer surgery? In order to maintain patient’s nutrition and promote wound healing surgery recovery, diet regimen of esophageal cancer patients after surgery is very important. The use of diet therapy after esophageal cancer surgery can improve the symptoms of dysphagia, chest tightness and constipation. Let’s take a look at what is good to eat after esophageal cancer surgery.
I. What is good to eat after esophageal cancer surgery?
After two weeks of surgery, patients can gradually change to semi-liquid diet and soft rice, such as rice porridge with meat (chicken, fish) soup, noodle soup with meat, egg custard with milk, red bean porridge with millet, cereal porridge with tender egg and egg custard with minced meat. Milk cereal porridge, carrot puree, spinach puree, cauliflower puree, milk tofu, steamed soft rice, fried eggs and scrambled eggs are also available for patients during this period.
In addition, the daily diet should contain sufficient amount of zinc, calcium and multivitamins. After that, the diet should be gradually adjusted to a nutritious, tasty and easy-to-digest ordinary meal.
The post-operative diet of esophageal cancer can start from the following points.
1. Chew slowly and have both meat and vegetables: Diet that is too fast, too hot and too hard will stimulate the esophagus and cause adverse reactions, which is not beneficial to the recovery of patients; eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, which can not only replenish various vitamins, but also replenish trace elements needed by human body; do not eat food contaminated by mold, and avoid strong wine.
2.Conditioning with congee diet: Most of the esophageal cancer patients are old, during the post-operative recovery, they can be conditioned with congee diet, such as various kinds of millet congee and red date and glutinous rice congee. Normally, more milk, eggs, soy products, etc. can be added. If patients have no appetite, they can consume fresh hawthorn, chicken gizzard, etc. with meal simmering soup to enhance appetite.
3, medicinal care: dietary care is actually dietary therapy, for the patient’s situation to choose the appropriate medicinal food, can improve swallowing difficulties, constipation and other diseases. Such as walnut, honey, orange cake, kiwi, carp, snapper and so on.
Besides, there are also foods that cannot be eaten after esophageal cancer surgery: tobacco, alcohol; moldy and contaminated food; spicy and stimulating food, such as pepper, chili, cinnamon, etc.; smoked and pickled food containing nitrosamines; avoid hard and indigestible and rough food.
II. Dietary considerations after esophageal cancer surgery.
After esophageal cancer surgery, patients should not eat stimulating foods such as spicy, hot, stinky and awake, and these foods will also cause esophageal spasm and make patients uncomfortable.
When esophageal cancer patients have choking sensation, do not swallow forcibly, otherwise it will stimulate local cancer tissue bleeding, spreading, metastasis or pain. When choking is serious, patients should be allowed to eat liquid or semi-liquid food.
Avoid cold liquid food and cold noodles, milk, egg soup, etc. that have been left for a long time. Because the narrow part of esophagus is obviously stimulated by cold food, it will easily cause spasm of esophagus, nausea and vomiting, pain and numbness.
The diet of esophageal cancer should ensure the freshness of food and not to eat moldy and spoiled food. As moldy food contains cancer-causing factors, patients should pay more attention to dietary hygiene.
3.Recommended 2 post-operative food therapy for esophageal cancer: 1.
1.Coix seeds and red dates porridge
Recipe: 100 grams of coix seeds, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 20 red dates, 50 grams of japonica rice.
Method: First, barley, lotus seeds and red dates. Separate picking, washing, red dates into warm water soaked for a few moments, remove the core for use. Then put the coix seeds and lotus seeds into a casserole, add a sufficient amount of water to soak, boil over high heat, add red date meat, change the fire to simmer for 1 hour, transfer the cleaned japonica rice, continue to simmer over low heat until the coix seeds and lotus seeds are cooked and rotten like crisp, the porridge is thick and sticky.
Usage: Take with meals, or as a snack, divided into several servings, the same day eaten.
Efficacy: strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish Qi and blood. It is mainly used to treat postoperative weakness, swelling and weakness of esophageal cancer patients with weak spleen and stomach.
2.Duck meat stewed with Cordyceps sinensis
Recipe: 150 grams of duck meat, 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, 5 red dates, 15 grams of ginger.
Method: the cordyceps, ginger, red dates washed; duck meat washed, chopped spare. Put all the ingredients together into the stew pot, add boiling water, stew for 2 hours with low heat and water, seasoning is ready. Feel free to drink soup to eat.
Usage: Serve with meals as a dish, eat as much as you like.
Effects: Replenish the kidney and fill the essence, strengthen the spleen and stomach. Mainly used for treating post-operative oesophageal cancer with thin and weak body, loss of appetite, seminal emission and insomnia, cough with shortness of breath, blood in sputum, low voice and weakness, weakness, pale tongue and thin pulse.