After esophageal cancer surgery, the normal physiological state of the digestive tract is changed, and in order to adapt to these changes, dietary habits should be adjusted accordingly. Let’s take a look at the specific instructions with me.
I. Post-operative diet for esophageal cancer.
Phase I: nasal feeding phase.
After surgery, when the patient is in the traumatic period of surgery: within one to five days, the anastomosis has not yet healed, the gastrointestinal function has not yet recovered well, and the digestive function is poor. During this period, only nasal feeding can be adopted, and a very thin and specially designed nutrition tube is placed through the nose directly to the jejunum to deliver nutrition.
Phase 2: Fluid phase.
Five to ten days after the surgery, and after the traumatic period, the gastrointestinal function starts to recover gradually, manifested by appetite and anal discharge. At this time, a small amount of plain water can be given first, gradually increasing, and if there is no obvious discomfort, egg soup, fresh milk and fish soup can be given.
Third period: semi-liquid diet stage.
Starting from the second week after the surgery, the various drains left in place after the surgery have been removed, and the intravenous fluid infusion is gradually stopped. Except for some elderly or super-elderly patients who cannot get out of bed, most of them can walk and move around, and the amount of food is gradually increased. However, during this period, patients should only eat less and more meals, and easy-to-digest non-slag food should be the main food, especially for those patients who had a large amount of food before surgery, so as not to cause gastrointestinal complications or anastomotic fistula.
Note: Unlike other tumors, esophageal cancer is not about poor appetite, but about swallowing difficulty and inability to eat, which causes the consumption of the organism, so it should try to eat more semi-liquid and whole liquid food, pay attention to the quality of semi-liquid and whole liquid food, don’t restrict the calories, do nutritious, fine and soft meals, easy to digest and absorb, and if necessary, do homogenized meal, elemental meal and mixed milk diet, etc.
II. Post-operative diet recipes for esophageal cancer.
1.Soft food recipes for one day.
Breakfast: bean curd brain or soy milk, bread or cake, egg cake with scallions.
Lunch: noodles in hot soup with tomatoes and eggs (rice noodles), steamed water fish, multi-layered cakes with dough, braised eggplant.
Dinner: red dates and lotus seeds millet congee, pea-stuffed buns, stir-fried shredded western rutabaga with minced pork.
Add fruit and cookies, or chocolate candy and fresh fruit juice between meals in the morning and afternoon. Add yogurt at night before going to bed.
2.General nutritional day meal recipe.
Breakfast: milk, sugar packets, boiled eggs with five spices, fried carrots and shredded potatoes.
Lunch: rice, shredded chicken and stir-fried bok choy, fried tofu with scallions, cucumber slices, tomato and wolfberry egg soup.
Dinner: rice and millet corn kernel congee mix, dumplings stuffed with three kinds of fresh vegetables, fried cabbage with shrimp. Add fruit and snacks between meals in the morning and afternoon, and drink sour milk half an hour before going to bed at night.
3.Semi-liquid daily meal recipe.
Breakfast: minced meat and vegetables two rice porridge, steamed chicken cake.
Lunch: minced pork with vegetables and eggs in thin noodle soup with mashed potatoes.
Dinner: eight congee, shredded shrimp and cucumber noodle soup.
Add milk or lotus root powder between meals in the morning and afternoon. Add yogurt half an hour before bedtime in the evening.
Finally, pay attention to a small number of meals, appropriate post-meal walk to enhance digestion and emptying Oh.