Esophageal cancer is a malignant tumor with high incidence. At present, the best treatment is surgery, so the postoperative care of esophageal cancer has become a concern of everyone, and the most concerned is diet care. Proper diet after esophageal cancer surgery can accelerate the postoperative recovery of patients with esophageal cancer and improve the symptoms of eating difficulties. Let's take a look at the postoperative care of esophageal cancer. First of all, the postoperative diet of patients with esophageal cancer is slow, not only the eating speed should be slowed down, but also the diet structure should be gradual, first nasal feeding nutrient solution, then liquid, semi-liquid and general food, step by step. The diet of esophageal cancer surgery should be chewed slowly. Postoperative patients with esophageal cancer generally have symptoms of dysphagia. Therefore, we should pay attention to the eating style of chewing slowly and combining meat and vegetables, and correct the bad habits of eating too fast, too hot, too hard and too thick. When the vagus nerve is cut off during the operation, there is often no sense of saturation and hunger after the operation, so the diet should be less and more meals, and you can't wait until you are hungry. Eat 6-7 times a day as appropriate. Secondly, we should emphasize the measures of reasonable collocation and proper diet after operation, which can restore the patient's physical strength as soon as possible and increase the patient's disease resistance. Esophageal cancer is different from other tumors, but it is difficult to swallow and eat, which leads to physical consumption. Therefore, in the postoperative rehabilitation period of esophageal cancer, we should try our best to expand the scope of diet, eat as many digestible diets as possible, such as semi-liquid diet and total liquid diet, pay attention to the quality of semi-liquid diet and total liquid diet, and do not limit calories to be nutritious, soft and easy to digest and absorb. If necessary, you can do homogeneous diet, essential diet and mixed milk. In diet, patients can be conditioned by porridge, such as barley porridge, red dates, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, longan, wolfberry porridge and so on. Eat more yogurt, eggs, soy products, etc. People with poor appetite can eat fresh hawthorn and pomegranate, or simmer soup with orange peel, ginger and chicken gizzards to increase their appetite. After esophageal cancer surgery, through diet adjustment, proper exercise, mental adjustment and confidence in overcoming the disease, the occurrence of postoperative complications can be reduced, which is helpful to improve the success rate of surgery and the quality of life of patients. The above is the introduction of postoperative care of esophageal cancer, and I believe you have a certain understanding. If you have other questions about esophageal cancer, please continue to pay attention to other articles on this channel or consult the experts on our website, and the experts will answer them wholeheartedly.