What can be done about anorexia in tumor patients?

Research shows that 80% of middle and late stage tumor patients have some degree of anorexia. Not wanting to eat, eating less, lack of protein, vitamins and other nutrients needed by the body, and low immunity, early and mid-stage tumor patients may cause recurrence of the disease, and middle and late-stage patients may lead to deterioration of the disease. Anorexia-nutritional deficiency-malignant disease is the most common and headache problem for tumor patients. Patients suffer and families are anxious, how to recognize and solve this problem? What causes anorexia in tumor patients? The following are common: First, treatment factors, radiotherapy is a common treatment for tumor, loss of appetite and other gastrointestinal side effects are common phenomena, which will usually be relieved naturally with the end of treatment. Secondly, after the tumor progresses, the tumor tissue itself secretes substances that will inhibit appetite, for example, in the late stage of prostate cancer, with the increase of PSA, the patient’s appetite will gradually decrease; thirdly, there are also digestive tumors, and the tumor itself can directly affect the digestive function; fourthly, some patients are depressed and anxious, which belongs to the anorexia nervosa; which patient belongs to which case or which cases are common to the same case, it needs the doctor to comprehensively determine the cause of anorexia. The doctor should make a comprehensive judgment to determine whether the patient belongs to one or all of these conditions. How to solve anorexia in tumor patients? Western medicine method: “Megestrol acetate” is considered to be the most powerful drug for the treatment of tumor-related anorexia, but it is a synthetic progestational hormone drug, which is prone to induce thrombosis and uterine bleeding with long-term use. Another class of drugs can also be used for anorexia, glucocorticoid, such as “dexamethasone tablets”, “prednisone tablets”, etc., which can alleviate the loss of appetite in tumor patients, but has adverse factors on blood sugar, blood lipid and infection. In addition, “reaction stop” is used in the treatment of anorexia, cachexia and insomnia, and has a certain degree of efficacy. If these treatments still fail to improve appetite and increase the amount of food eaten, a consultation with a nutritional expert can be considered to strengthen nutritional support. According to Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the later life, the spleen is the main transporter, the stomach is the main receptor, the spleen rises and the stomach descends, and when the spleen and stomach rise and fall out of order due to pathological factors, the functions of the reception of water and grains-putrefaction and transmigration will be impaired, leading to anorexia. Chinese medicine is very effective in regulating gastrointestinal function and improving anorexia. For those who are not willing to seek medical treatment, He Shengqi, TCM tumor specialist of Wangjing Hospital, recommends Chinese medicine therapy and dietary therapy for reference: First, patients don’t want to eat, tiredness and fatigue, white tongue, which belongs to spleen deficiency, they can choose to take one of the following medicines: Ginseng and Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Ginseng and Spleen Enhancement Pill, and tonifying the middle-aged pills; Second, patients are often satiated in early days, they don’t want to eat, and they have bloating after eating, even burping, so we recommend them to try the following medicines One of the Chinese patent medicines: Stomach-strengthening and eliminating food tablets; Da Shan Zha Pill; Jia Wei Bao He Pill. Third, the patient belongs to the emotional type, appetite bouts of good bouts of bad, daily sullen, poor appetite, like to sigh, sometimes belching, Chinese medicine believes that most of them belong to the liver and stomach disharmony, recommended to take one of the following pCms: Stomach Sue Pellets; plus flavor of Easy Pills; wood Xiang Shunqi Pills; four mill soup oral liquid; Fourth, poor appetite, dry mouth and bitter mouth, the stomach is often gurgling, occasional diarrhea, yellow moss on the tongue, most of them belong to the spleen deficiency and dampness, can be tried: Xiangshang Pills; Plus flavor of Baohe Pills. Can try to take Chinese medicine: Xiangsha stomach pills, condylar ΞΎ bound eulogist # Fifth, the patient does not want to eat but bloating, poor appetite with mild constipation or many days without stool, “the spleen should be ascending is healthy, the stomach should be descending and”, you can choose to take the following one of the proprietary Chinese medicines: Xiangsha Hovenia pills; Hovenia guiding the stagnation of the pills; six flavors of the Anxiang capsule; In addition, recommend three Better dietary therapy, can choose to apply: First, blueberry yam, 1 yam, 100 grams of blueberry jam. The yam peeled, cut into sections into the boiling water to cook, with the appropriate amount of blueberry sauce drizzled on the yam can be eaten; Second, gizzard, radish, add salt and seasoning boiled gizzard cooled raw radish slices, take the appropriate amount of; Third, crucian carp soup, crucian carp 1, add the appropriate amount of black beans frying pan stir-fry again, remove the scales and viscera, add the appropriate amount of soybeans, malt, make soup to drink; In short, anorexia nervosa is a common phenomenon of patients with tumors, the family should To sum up, anorexia is a common phenomenon for tumor patients, so their family members should strengthen emotional accompaniment, patiently adjust the diet structure, the taste of food is as important as nutrition, and the patients themselves should know that “man is iron, food is steel”, and they can only be cured by eating well, so in order to get well soon, they should be encouraged to eat more and eat well.