Patients should eat more fish, meat, milk, honey, fresh vegetables and fruits. Because their diet is nutritious, easy to digest, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. Because of the different symptoms in the radiotherapy site, their dietary choices are also different.
1, nausea, vomiting, hypoesthesia:
It is more common in radiotherapy of abdominal tumors. The diet should be nutritious, and clear fire foods such as pears, mung beans and tremella. The taste drops, the food is more fragrant, and the fragrance stimulates the appetite. Adding salt and seasoning can be a little more important to make your mouth feel boring and delicious. People with abnormal sense of smell and nausea and vomiting can add ginger juice or drink some Chenpi tea to their food.
2, loss of appetite:
Encourage patients to eat more, preferably nutritious and digestible food. It is necessary to mobilize patients' vision and sense of smell, increase their diet, prepare their favorite foods, and eat less and more meals.
3. Decreased hemogram:
Because radiotherapy can cause bone marrow suppression, which is manifested by the decrease of white blood cells and platelets. Pay attention to strong nutrition, you can choose foods containing more iron, such as animal liver, celery, tomatoes and apricots, peaches, plums, raisins, red dates, pineapples, bayberry, oranges, grapefruit, figs and so on.
Dietary taboos:
Radiotherapy often leads to "internal heat", and hot foods such as dog meat and mutton, as well as peppers, peppers, mustard, star anise and cinnamon react by not eating or eating less; Foods that are not suitable for curing, smoking, burning and moldy; Never smoke or drink; Taboos cannot be absolute. Chinese medicine believes that "stomach qi is the foundation". If patients like to eat certain foods, they can eat them even if they are in the taboo range. The key is to eat less and have a light diet.