Dietary guidelines for postoperative patients with esophageal cancer
1, eat less and eat more, and ensure to eat 5-6 times a day. You can't eat too much every time. Increase or decrease the number of meals according to the situation, and eat more high-protein and digestible foods.
2. The diet should gradually transition from thin to thick, and the order is "clear liquid → liquid → semi-liquid → soft rice → general food".
3. When eating, take a sitting posture or raise the head of the bed and back by 30-45 degrees, chew slowly during eating, so that saliva and food are fully mixed to avoid overeating. If you can't lie flat immediately after eating, you should get out of bed properly and eat little or nothing before going to bed.
4, reasonable nutrition, aiming at the symptoms of dysphagia and loss of appetite in patients with esophageal cancer after operation, appropriately increase the proportion of protein and calories in food. Choose light, soft and digestible foods, such as porridge, steamed eggs, rice paste, noodles, steamed bread, stew, vegetables and fruits. Don't eat spicy food and forbid alcohol.
5. In the case that the gastrointestinal function of the patient has not fully recovered, we should control the food intake according to the patient's condition, eat less and eat more meals, gradually increase the food intake, ensure the effective absorption of food, and avoid discomfort such as choking, bloating and reflux.
Dietary considerations for patients with esophageal cancer
When the patient has a choking feeling, don't swallow it forcibly, otherwise it will stimulate the bleeding, diffusion, metastasis and pain of local cancer tissue. When suffocation is severe, you should take liquid food or semi-liquid food.
Avoid eating cold and liquid food, and don't drink noodles, milk and egg soup. It's been cold for a long time. Because the narrow part of the esophagus stimulates cold food very obviously, it is easy to cause esophageal spasm, nausea and vomiting, pain and numbness. So it is better to eat warm food.
Can't eat spicy, spicy, smelly, sober stimulating food, because these foods can also cause esophageal spasm, making patients feel uncomfortable. For patients with esophageal cancer who can't eat at all, we should adopt the method of intravenous high nutrition to input nutrients to maintain the needs of patients.