For pancreatic cancer patients, dietary care is important, and the following points are worth noting.
I. Dietary prevention and treatment The dietary treatment of pancreatic cancer focuses on prevention. Pay attention to prevent grain from getting moldy, harvest grain in autumn to collect and dry quickly, strengthen storage, eat fresh vegetables and fruits, and change the traditional bad eating habits. To treat drinking water with bleach to reduce the nitrite content in water, and often take vitamin C to reduce the formation of nitrosamines in the stomach. In addition to fertilize vegetables to avoid the accumulation of nitrite, molybdenum fertilizer can be applied. Riboflavin should be given to those with moderate or severe esophageal epithelial cell hyperplasia to correct vitamin A deficiency, and early examination, early diagnosis and early treatment should be done as much as possible.
II. Supplementary nutrition Unlike other tumors, cardia cancer is not about poor appetite, but about swallowing difficulty and inability to eat, which causes the consumption of the organism, so we should try to eat more diet that can enter the esophagus, such as semi-fluid diet and full-fluid diet, pay attention to the quality of semi-fluid diet and full-fluid diet, do not restrict calories, make it nutritious, fine and soft meals, easy to digest and absorb, and make homogenized diet, elemental diet and mixed milk diet when necessary.
The homogenized diet is a normal human diet de-spined and de-boned, stirred into a paste with a high-speed tissue masher, containing nutrients similar to normal diet, but crushed outside the body, extremely easy to digest and absorb, which can avoid long-term single diet and prevent constipation. The caloric energy and nutritional requirements of homogenized meal can be formulated according to the condition and individual’s dietary habits. You can choose rice, congee, noodles, steamed bread, eggs, fish, shrimp, chicken, lean meat, pork liver, cabbage, carrot, rape, white radish, winter melon, potato, and appropriate amount of milk, soy milk, tofu, dried beans and other foods.
The preparation method of homogenized meal: clean the chicken, lean meat, fish, shrimp, vegetables, etc., remove the bones, skin, remove the thorns, cut into small pieces cooked or fried, steamed buns to remove the skin, eggs cooked and shelled into pieces, mix all the food needed for each meal, add the appropriate amount of water together with pounding and stirring (available medical tissue pounding machine or food pounding machine pounding), to be stirred into a grain-free paste and then add salt 1 ~ 2 grams / meal can be . Or stir-fry the vegetables and mix them together with crushed buns, then mash them with a tissue masher, and then take them orally or feed them by tube, to encourage more food.
III. Postoperative diet After pancreatic cancer surgery, water should be fasted, and when you can drink according to medical advice, you can drink a small amount of water to prevent anastomotic fistula, and generally you should eat after three days. The semi-liquid phase can be a little longer, and do not rush to transition to universal diet. After surgery, the esophagus is different from the normal esophagus, so we should pay more attention to dietary hygiene, avoid irritating food and seasonings, and food should not be too hot, too hard, etc. Small amount and more meals.