Dietary considerations during chemotherapy

During chemotherapy, while killing tumor cells, chemotherapeutic drugs will inevitably cause some damage to normal cells and produce corresponding toxic side effects, such as decreased immune function, leukopenia, gastrointestinal mucous membrane ulcers, hair loss and so on. Reasonable diet can prevent and reduce weight loss and malnutrition brought by treatment, and improve the body’s tolerance to chemotherapy. How to arrange a reasonable nutritional diet during chemotherapy? 1, food should be as diversified as possible, eat more high-protein, multi-vitamin, low animal fat, easy-to-digest food, and fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat old and spoiled or irritating things, do not eat carbonated beverages and other gas-producing food, eat less smoked, baked, pickled, deep-fried, salty food, and staple coarse and fine grains, in order to ensure the balance of nutrition, to prevent abdominal distension, diarrhea and constipation. 2, in order to prevent chemotherapy-induced decline in white blood cells, platelets, etc., it is advisable to eat more blood and meat, such as animal offal, egg yolks, lean meat, fish, eel, chicken, bones, jujubes, cinnamon, Colla Corii Asini; at the same time, it can be used in conjunction with medicinal diets such as Codonopsis pilosulae, Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis, jujubes, peanuts and so on. 3.Improve immune function, can eat shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, monkey head mushrooms, fungus and other foods. 4, increase appetite, prevention and treatment of vomiting, can be taken to change the recipe, change the cooking method, increase the color, aroma and taste of food; a small amount of meals, eat some light and refreshing raw gazpacho; in the diet can be added to some ginger, in order to stop nausea; can also be used in medicinal diets to open the appetite and strengthen the spleen, such as hawthorn diced pork, astragalus, Chinese yam, radish, white lentils, muskrooms, tangerine peel, and so on. 5.If there are symptoms such as decreased immune function, decreased white blood cells, ulcers in the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, hair loss, etc., it is advisable to supplement high protein foods, such as milk and milk powder. It is advisable to supplement high protein foods, such as milk, lean meat, fish, animal liver, red dates, red beans and so on. River crab, eel, black fish, beef, etc. also help to elevate white blood cells. Or take 30g of peanut rice, 30g of yam, 15g of wolfberry, 60g of glutinous rice porridge food; can also be 6g of silver fungus (water), 15g of lily boiled with rock sugar 10 to 15g drink. 6, in order to reduce constipation symptoms in chemotherapy, should eat more vitamin-rich vegetables, fruits and other foods that help fight cancer, such as asparagus, kelp, seaweed, onion, garlic, mushrooms and so on. You can also use laxative dietary remedies. Groundnut Porridge – Composition: 300g of groundnut, 150g of corn. Usage: clean the groundnut, steamed, peeled, cut into 3 cm sized pieces with a knife. Corn washed, standby. The cleaned corn put in a pot, add the right amount of water, first with a strong fire to boil, and then switch to a small fire to continue to cook and simmer, to be rice to be cooked, add the groundnut pieces, cooked into porridge can be. Almond porridge – composition: sweet almonds 50, 120 grams of round-grained rice. Usage: almonds peeled, pointed, rice washed, the two add the right amount of water together with porridge, porridge into discretionary sugar, morning and evening consumption. How to increase the appetite of cancer patients during chemotherapy? 1. Replace recipes and change cooking methods. 2.Medicinal diet for appetite and spleen: 1, hawthorn diced meat: 100g of hawthorn, 1000g of lean pork (or beef), 250g of vegetable oil, and mushrooms, ginger, green onion, pepper, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, sugar, each in moderation. First lean meat cut into slices, oil explosion over, then with hawthorn seasoning fontanel through the burn dry, can be eaten. Both appetizing and anti-cancer. 2, astragalus yam soup: use astragalus 30g, add water to cook half an hour, remove slag, add yam 60g, cook for another 30 minutes, add sugar (constipated people add honey) that is to become. Daily morning and evening service 1 time. With the benefit of qi and blood, increase appetite, improve gastrointestinal absorption function. 3, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits with high vitamin content: this kind of food can not only increase resistance, but also increase appetite. In the early postoperative period, you can eat vegetable juice and a small amount of easy-to-digest fruits, the amount of each time should not be more than a small amount of meals. After the basic recovery of gastrointestinal function, you can eat some light and refreshing raw coleslaw and fruits, especially in the period of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which has obvious appetizing effect. It is advisable to choose more of the following foods: fish, shrimp, such as big herring, North Atlantic halibut, mackerel, European mackerel, salmon, etc.; sea cucumber, jellyfish, abalone, kelp, water chestnuts, rhododendron; milk, soymilk, soybeans; wheat germ, soybean germ; jujubes, tomatoes, Coix lacryma, strawberries, artichoke plums, dried plums, grapes, raisins, cherries, umeboshi blue berries, black thorn berry berries; shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, black fungus, Garlic, onions, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, carrots, mandarin oranges, purple cabbage, garlic scapes, leeks, cauliflower, cabbage, and green tea. Recommended: kelp meat jelly: the kelp softened and washed and shredded, pork with skin, etc., wash and cut small pieces, put the pot with the right amount of water, then add cinnamon, fennel and other seasonings, simmering into a rotten mud with a fire, plus salt, into a pot, cooled into a jelly, cut into strips to eat with the rice. For patients after radiotherapy, exercise does not have too many contraindications, after the treatment should gradually increase the degree of exercise, but to avoid severe myelosuppression period, that is, the white blood cell reduction exercise can be suspended.