What should I do if I can’t eat with esophageal cancer? This is a real problem that many patients suffering from esophageal cancer are facing in the current society, which is really troubling to patients. As the saying goes, people are iron and rice is steel, so it is not good to be sick and not be able to eat. So, what should be done if you can’t eat when you have esophageal cancer? Let’s take a look. 1.Esophageal cancer patients should make recipe arrangement for themselves every day according to their actual condition, but not blindly, they should start from four aspects. Vegetables and fruits, chicken, duck, fish, meat and poultry, noodle miscellaneous grains; milk, these four types of food can supply the body with enough heat, protein, multivitamins and minerals. 2. Clinically, some esophageal cancer patients who have undergone radiotherapy often have some bad symptoms and their appetite is even worse, so they should take the method of eating less and more meals. Don’t drink too much water during meals and try to drink less water one hour before and after meals; don’t eat sweet, greasy or fried food; chew fully when eating to make food easy to digest. If the nausea and vomiting is more than, you need to give rehydration and other symptomatic support treatment. 3.High protein is very helpful to our health. Patients with esophageal cancer should supplement high protein in time, which is good for body recovery. Protein-rich foods such as lean meat, eggs, beans, milk and various essential amino acids can inhibit the development of cancer by maintaining the balance of amino acids in the body. 4. Strictly control the diet that can be carried out smoothly before radiotherapy, such as general diet and liquid diet, and do not force the patient to eat. Because the esophagus in the affected area has poor elasticity and limited dilatation; local mucosal destruction is interrupted and radiotherapy can easily cause local mucosal edema, if the patient is forced to eat, it will only make it more difficult for the patient to eat. Particular attention should be paid to patients with esophageal cancer who have burr on barium esophageal fluoroscopy. Because the esophageal wall of such patients has been eroded and thin, if we do not pay attention to their diet, it will increase the chance of perforation or bleeding. The appropriate diet should be provided to each patient according to his or her specific condition. These are some of our answers to the long-standing question of “what to do if you can’t eat with esophageal cancer”, which we hope can help you. It is not a trivial matter to have esophageal cancer. Patients should hurry up the treatment and treat the cause and symptoms of esophageal cancer in order to achieve more ideal results.