Diet Care of Iaryngocarcinoma

Aug 27, 2011 by Alexander

Food is the material basis for the rehabilitation of cancer patients, attention to diet throat cancer care, providing patients with a reasonable adequate nutrition, can enhance the body’s resistance and improve patient tolerance to treatment.

To ensure the successful completion of the treatment plan, and promote recovery. Throat cancer care diet is the most difficult problem — swallowing caused by choking. The best way to deal with choking is to practice swallowing, throat cancer patients 15 to 20 days, to begin to practice swallowing the beginning, the best choice for dry foods, exercise by swallowing, cough will gradually reduce the occurrence, and even disappear .

If you start to practice choking when swallowing, could use some small way to assist, such as acupressure (that is, something pharyngeal jaw with your fingers to hold the skin) or bolus method (that is, eat a banana bread or block the stomaafter eating) and other methods of training, it is impossible to dispose of the incision into the trachea of ​​the throat cancer patient an inflatable balloon, inflated with a syringe dinner, after dinner came alive again in air. However, these methods can not rely too heavily on the final exercise in throat cancer patients with or overcome through choking.

Diet for throat cancer

1, the diet should be nutritious, digestible, especially to provide adequate protein and vitamins, food should be diverse, and pay attention to color, smell, taste, shape, in order to enhance patients’ appetite; diet should be light, avoid eating greasy food. You can add some appetizing food, causing appetite in throat cancer patients with smaller meals.

2, the diet should be light, throat cancer patients should be used with anti-infective, anti-ulcer effect of food, such as Mangosteen, water chestnuts, honey, pig, snail, spinach, bitter melon.

3,  use the following foods according to one’s individual stage of throat cancer: hoarseness, radish, pear, ginkgo,plum, etc.; dysphagia, almonds, walnuts, lily, etc.; hemoptysis, lotus root, lily flowers and so on.

4, throat cancer patients can also multi-use with anti-hypopharynx and larynx cancer foods such as: front grass, Malan, tempeh, almonds, gourd, eggplant, etc.

5, food taboos: ban alcohol and tobacco, caution spicy spicy food, concurrent infection, fasting dog meat, mutton and other hot foods should encourage throat cancer patients to eat at the same time based on individual tolerance appropriate arrangements for food. Throat cancer patients themselves feel good appetite to eat as much as possible when some do not give too many restrictions, do not force throat cancer patients eat the food they do not like, so as not to cause nausea, vomiting

Throat cancer patients must pay attention to nutrition, to develop a scientific throat cancer diet care plan. Proved nutrition, treatment and rehabilitation for patients is extremely important, enabling throat cancer patients to accelerate recovery after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy to enhance tolerance and improve immune function, to avoid the infection of throat cancer.