For a period of time after operation, patients should eat more liquid food. Lung cancer is a thoracic surgery, which has a relatively small impact on the gastrointestinal tract, so there is no need to restrict diet after surgery. About 6 hours after extubation, you can start drinking a small amount of warm water (one bite or two). If there is no nausea, vomiting, coughing, etc. Start eating a small amount of liquid diet (about 50 ml) every 2-3 hours, and then gradually increase it every time until it reaches 300-500 ml, 5-6 times a day. On the third day after operation, you can eat a semi-liquid diet, about 500 ml each time, 5~6 times a day. Generally, you can return to normal diet after 5 days.

Eat more after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. During this period, patients often have gastrointestinal reactions such as dry mouth, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, but they should not reduce their food intake. Family members can encourage patients to eat more, mainly mung beans, tremella, radishes and other foods.

For advanced patients, the menu should be diversified. Don't be partial to food and avoid always eating one kind of food. When cooking, family members can make more efforts in color, fragrance and taste according to patients' tastes. If you feel sick when eating, you can chew a few drops of ginger juice before eating. It is also necessary to keep the stool unobstructed and eat more crude fiber foods, such as asparagus, celery and bananas. Never be too hungry or full.

Regularly help patients who can't take care of themselves turn over, scrub and massage their hands and feet every day. Safflower alcohol can be applied to the compressed part to prevent bedsore. For patients with pain, we should try our best to meet their pain relief requirements and not be afraid of the addiction of narcotic analgesics to improve their quality of life.

For patients who can exercise slightly, they can walk slowly, take a walk and exercise their bones and muscles, and don't overdo it. You can listen to light music, folk music and Beethoven's symphony of destiny, relax your body and mind and improve your quality of life.

Give patients more spiritual comfort, eliminate patients' fear of death, encourage and cultivate patients' spouses and relatives, give patients caress, hug, speak out of turn, communicate more, express their love and nostalgia for patients, and let patients get spiritual happiness.

Closely observe the changes of patients' breathing, blood pressure, pulse, body temperature and consciousness. If there is any abnormality, report to the doctor immediately and deal with the symptoms. If you cough with phlegm, encourage the patient to cough it up himself. If it is difficult to cough up, pat him on the back to help him cough up. Use a sputum aspirator if necessary. When resting and sleeping, pay attention to tilting your head to one side to prevent suffocation. If the patient is found to have sudden aphasia, face change and respiratory arrest, he must immediately report to the doctor for emergency rescue.