Only by providing a balanced diet for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma can the nutritional status of patients be improved. Radiotherapy will increase catabolism and decrease anabolism in protein, resulting in negative nitrogen balance. Therefore, it is recommended to give patients a high protein diet. However, most patients have a misunderstanding that increasing nutrition means increasing animal food. Studies have shown that eating too much animal food will increase acidic substances in the blood, increase the burden on the liver and kidney, and lead to decreased immunity, which is harmful to the body. Therefore, animal food should be moderate. Secondly, the patient's carbohydrate supply should be sufficient to ensure the positive nitrogen balance and the heat energy can meet the body's needs. So how should patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma eat correctly? The average patient's diet has two extremes: first, excessive tonic, intake of high-protein food and tonic; Second, there are too many taboos, and two incorrect dietary concepts will lead to unbalanced nutrition. The correct way is to eat a reasonable diet according to the specific situation of patients, and eat cereals, lipids, protein and fruits and vegetables reasonably every day. Let's see how patients should eat. 1. It is suggested that patients eat at least five kinds of vegetables every day and supplement antioxidant nutrients, which can reduce the adverse reactions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. β -carotene and selenium can inhibit the expression of oncogenes and improve immune function. Therefore, it is encouraged to eat more vegetables, fruits and fish rich in vitamins A, C, E, β -carotene and selenium. 2. During the treatment, the diet is light and easy to digest, so as to avoid * * * and smelly food, so as not to induce nausea and other discomfort. Pay attention to the choice of meal time and avoid eating half an hour before and after radiotherapy. If you have poor appetite and don't think about diet, you can eat hawthorn or hawthorn slices, drink malt tea and eat more carbohydrates, such as rotten noodles and yam porridge. Diabetic patients mainly eat soft food, eat less liquid food, to avoid the blood sugar rising too fast, or eat foods cooked with beans, such as black bean porridge and red bean porridge, because the blood sugar index of beans is very low and the blood sugar rises very slowly. 3. In the second week of radiotherapy, the oral mucosa was smeared with egg cream to reduce the reaction degree of oral mucosa. Egg butter is rich in lecithin, fatty acid, folic acid, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other medicinal and nutritional components, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling, nourishing yin and blood, moistening dryness, healing sores and promoting granulation. During this period, the patient's diet should be thin, soft and rotten, and it is advisable to be warm and cool. The cooking methods are mainly stewing, boiling and simmering. Fine coarse grains, such as scalded vegetables, are chopped and cold-mixed, or crushed by a cooking machine and fried with fruit juice; Pay attention to the color, fragrance and shape of food to stimulate appetite; People with oral pain should wash the mixture of lidocaine and vitamin B before meals to relieve the pain, and those with severe eating pain should be given enteral nutrient solution. Ensure the nutritional balance while supplementing antioxidant nutrients, and eat more vegetables and fruits, such as black fungus, tremella, coix seed, chestnut, walnut, asparagus, tofu, garlic, radish, onion, broccoli, kelp and other algae, mushrooms and other edible fungi; Refer to health care recipes to provide patients with specific diets, such as stewed chicken with astragalus, roasted chestnut, stewed trotters with yam, stewed trotters with angelica and astragalus, steamed crucian carp with black fungus, etc. 4. Due to radiotherapy reaction, edema of oral, pharyngeal and nasal mucosa occurred. It is suggested to eat more nutritious foods and drinks, such as boiled crucian carp with corn, roasted radish with duck tongue, red bean porridge with coix seed, scrambled eggs with loofah, shredded bitter gourd with cold sauce, winter melon seaweed soup, cold lotus root juice, soybean milk, chrysanthemum tea and honeysuckle tea. Radiotherapy combined with adjuvant chemotherapy is prone to bone marrow suppression, so it is suggested to eat a diet with the functions of enriching blood and benefiting qi, such as stewed beef with yam and red dates, stewed trotters with soybeans and peanuts, stewed eel bone soup, stewed duck blood with tofu, bone soup, cuttlefish trotters soup, stewed black-bone chicken with angelica, boiled eggs with peanuts and red dates, etc. For dry mouth and sore throat that affect sleep, it is recommended to have a rest, such as lily crucian carp soup, lotus seed duck soup and lotus seed tremella soup. 5. During radiotherapy, there will be symptoms of dry mouth and sticky throat. In addition to gargling with water, a small amount of liquid is eaten several times, which not only moisturizes the mouth but also supplements energy. It is suggested that patients choose foods with the functions of clearing away heat and moistening dryness, promoting fluid production and resolving phlegm, such as tremella almond bean curd soup, lily lotus seed soup, radish bean curd soup, pear, apple, water chestnut, chrysanthemum and so on. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots are sweet in taste, flat in nature, and have the effect of promoting qi circulation and promoting digestion, which can be used as a common diet dish for physical weakness and loss of appetite. Amaranth is sweet and cool, rich in minerals such as iron and calcium, as well as a variety of vitamins and dietary fiber. The patient suffers from physical pain, weakened physical strength and reduced activity due to radiotherapy. In addition, chemotherapy drugs can also cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, which leads to poor defecation to some extent. Amaranth is rich in dietary fiber, easy to cook and swallow, and has a good effect on relieving constipation. It is regarded as a good vegetable for enriching blood among the people. In addition to proper exercise, drink plenty of water and use gastrocolon reflex, it is recommended to eat more amaranth, leek, potato, sesame, sesame oil and sesame oil. Radish, often eaten, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion and fight cancer; Soybean is rich in isoflavones, which are antioxidants and can resist cell proliferation and vascular thickening. Their inhibitory effects on cytokines and growth factors are related to the anticancer effects of isoflavones. Astragalus membranaceus is a traditional Chinese medicine containing selenium, which is the activation center of glutathione peroxide. Experiments show that Astragalus membranaceus can produce strong antioxidants in radiation injury and protect cell membrane, thus reducing radiation reaction and injury and improving curative effect. Finally, we should pay attention to preserving the original ecology of food and eating seasonal food. In recent years, the concept of immune nutritional support is emerging. Many immunologists and nutrition experts at home and abroad believe that nutritious food can not only resist mutant cells, reduce the adverse reactions caused by cancer treatment, but also help patients recover faster. Disclaimer: The above content comes from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original author. If there is any infringement of your original copyright, please let us know and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.