Things to keep in mind during chemotherapy for cancer patients

A to be emotionally stable Clinical practice has shown that, where the chemotherapy of doubt, panic, fear of people, in the chemotherapy of adverse drug reactions are often heavier. Patients who are open-minded, generous and emotionally stable have much lighter reactions. Therefore, all cancer patients who need chemotherapy should have the confidence of winning the battle and accept chemotherapy in a happy mood, so as to reduce the adverse reactions and achieve better therapeutic effects. Patients will have mouth ulcers, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea and other gastrointestinal reactions during chemotherapy, so they should have a light and nutritious diet that is easy to digest, and they should be given semi-fluid or soft rice with less residue, avoiding greasy and difficult-to-digest food, and those with poor appetite can have fewer and more frequent meals. Usually eat some lean meat or poultry, fish, jujube, peanuts, etc., to boil, stew, steam and other methods of cooking and eating, to prevent or reduce the bone marrow suppression caused by white fine hug, platelet decline is very useful. If anemia occurs, can be appropriate to eat animal liver, heart or egg yolk, lean meat; vegetables and fruits in the spinach, prunes, oranges, grapefruit and figs, etc., in order to correct the patient’s iron deficiency anemia. Edible mushrooms such as shiitake, ground mushroom, monkey head mushroom and fungus are rich in polysaccharides, which have the effect of improving the immune function of the human body and can be eaten frequently. In the use of cis-chloroplatin and other anti-tumor drugs mainly excreted by the kidneys, drink more water to promote urination, which is conducive to reducing nephrotoxicity. Three to prevent drug oozing There are a lot of chemotherapeutic drugs have strong irritation to the tissues, if the drug leaks out of the blood vessels when injecting intravenously or playing drip, it will stimulate the local normal tissues, causing redness, swelling and inflammation, and even ulceration. Therefore, nurses should puncture the patient’s vein with one accurate shot and fix it firmly. The patient should try to protect the injection site and move as little as possible to avoid the needle slipping out of the blood vessel. Four to protect the skin The application of chemotherapy drugs skin damage and hair loss, patients should strengthen the skin, hair cleaning and maintenance, prohibit the use of irritating soap, lotion and shampoo and other items such as bathing and shampooing; dermatitis or hyperpigmentation at the do not scratch and indiscriminately applying ointment; hair loss should be strengthened to protect the scalp, to prevent exposure to sunlight; chemotherapy-induced skin lesions and alopecia are reversible (after stopping the drug can be restored to its original state), do not carry a mental burden. Don’t carry the burden of thinking for this. Female tumor patients should avoid pregnancy during chemotherapy. Because a considerable part of anti-tumor drugs have the effect of causing mutation and deformity, especially on the first trimester of pregnancy, so it is necessary to take measures to prevent pregnancy during the period of childbearing. Sixth, to prevent infection Because chemotherapy due to varying degrees of inhibition of immune function, caused by white blood cells, especially the reduction of granulocytes, and thus prone to a variety of infections. Therefore, should do regular life, work and rest, to ensure that sleep; in addition to bedridden, the affected sound to walk properly, practice qigong, playing Tai Chi lift, do gymnastics, etc., can enhance the resistance. Pay attention not to go to crowded public places and people with infectious diseases at home, so as not to cause infection. Seven to the scientific use of medication At present, there are both Chinese and Western medicines in primary hospitals, too many kinds of phenomenon, some of the patients with chemotherapy drugs at the same time, often also use antipyretic drugs, sleeping pills, nutritional supplements, antibiotics, etc., is very likely to cause adverse reactions, so that the anti-tumor drug toxicity increase, such as cisplatin and aminoglycoside antibiotics and can lead to cisplatin nephrotoxicity aggravation, and even cause renal failure. To use a single drug, such as cisplatin almost 100% trigger vomiting; cyclic amine phosphate, adriamycin about 70%. Therefore, we advocate the use of drugs for patients with tumors focus on science, fine and reasonable, according to the reasonable selection of chemotherapeutic drugs, the use of 3 to 5 kinds of drugs combined chemotherapy. Clinical practice has shown that combined chemotherapy not only improves the therapeutic efficacy, but also reduces the adverse reactions caused by chemotherapy. With the increasingly in-depth study of tumor proliferation kinetics, the principle of action and metabolic pathway of anti-tumor drugs have become more and more important. The further understanding of the principle of action and metabolic pathway of anti-tumor drugs has provided a theoretical basis for the rational use of tumor chemotherapy. With the clinical application of new anti-tumor drugs and new chemotherapy programs, tumor chemotherapy is developing from palliative to curative treatment, which will enable more patients with malignant tumors to be cured and raise the sails of life again.