Lung cancer is a malignant tumor with a high incidence rate, and the mortality rate of lung cancer is not low. It is a disease that seriously threatens human life. Lung cancer can be treated through surgery. Lung cancer patients have completed After the operation, you must pay attention to caring for the wound and taking care of your body. So what should you eat after lung cancer surgery? What should you pay attention to in your diet after lung cancer surgery?

1. Dietary style

Patients after lung cancer surgery are weak, have poor immunity, and have low digestive function. The food after eating is not easy to digest. In terms of diet, they mainly eat liquid food and easy meals. The food is mainly for digestion. If you need to eat some hard food, it must be steamed in a pressure cooker before eating.

2. Eat fruits and vegetables

After lung cancer surgery, you can eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as: lemon, mustard, asparagus, red dates, almond milk, black fungus, etc., because Fruits and vegetables contain a large amount of vitamins, which can enhance normal cell activity, block the formation of cancer cells, enhance the body's immunity, and help drugs inhibit cancer cells.

3. Foods that enhance immunity

After lung cancer surgery, the body’s immunity is low. Although the cancer cells have been removed, in order to prevent the recurrence of cancer cells and enhance the body’s immunity, you can eat Some foods that fight cancer and enhance the body's immunity, such as barley, sweet almonds, water chestnuts, oysters, jellyfish, yellow croaker, turtles, crabs, horseshoe crabs, cockles, sea cucumbers, poria, yams, jujubes, black snakes, green beans, Mushrooms, walnuts, soft-shelled turtles.

4. Eat cooling foods

After lung cancer surgery, due to low body function, fever may occur due to postoperative infection. While cooling with drugs, you can eat some Cool foods, such as: cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon, lettuce, eggplant, nostoc, lily, amaranth, shepherd's purse, water spinach, Gelili, purslane, plum, watermelon, pineapple, pear, persimmon, tangerine, lemon, olive , mulberry seeds, water chestnuts, duck, herring.

5. Eat pain-relieving foods

Whether it is before or after surgery, pain is difficult to get rid of for lung cancer patients. You can eat some pain-relieving foods in your daily diet, such as: Horseshoe crab, rape, loofah, kiwi, walnut, buckwheat, star fruit, almond, eggplant, peach, mustard green, quail, kumquat, crab, orange, wheat, crucian carp.

6. Foods that can alleviate radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Most patients after lung cancer surgery need to undergo radiotherapy and chemotherapy. At this time, they need to eat some foods that can alleviate radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as: goose Blood, mushroom, shark, longan, eel, walnut, soft-shelled turtle, turtle, kiwi, water shield, daylily, jujube, sunflower seeds, apple, carp, mung bean, soybean, adzuki bean, shrimp, crab, silver bean, loach, pond lice , grass carp, salmon, green tea, snail.

7. Foods that should not be eaten

Patients who have undergone lung cancer surgery should not eat spicy foods, which mainly include fried foods. At the same time, they should not eat shrimps, crabs, etc. that may cause allergies. foods; you must quit smoking and drinking, as the toxic substances in tobacco and alcohol can promote the growth of cancer cells; in addition, you should eat less greasy, smoked, and caffeinated foods.

8. Causes of lung cancer

(1) Smoking

Smoking is a strongly acidic substance. Smoking will cause acidification of the human body, and an acidic body is prone to The probability of inducing cancer. According to national statistics, the cause of lung cancer is closely related to smoking. Cigarettes contain a variety of carcinogens. The risk of lung cancer is 10 times higher for smokers than for non-smokers. The amount of cigarettes smoked is higher. The bigger one is more harmful.

(2) Occupational factors

This was also the main cause of lung diseases at that time. It was mentioned in early literature that in a mining area in Europe, the incidence of lung cancer was surprisingly high. Extremely high. After years of investigation by experts, long-term exposure to uranium, radium and other radioactive substances and their derivatives, carcinogenic hydrocarbons, arsenic, chromium, nickel, copper, tin, iron, coal tar, asphalt, petroleum, asbestos, mustard gas and other substances It will lead to various diseases in the body. Furthermore, due to the different dietary structure and living habits of the human body, it will lead to acidification of the body's constitution, which will cause the metabolic cycle to slow down, which will lead to a decrease in the overall immunity, thus inducing cell canceration.

(3) Chronic lung diseases

The occurrence of chronic lung diseases is lung cell infection caused by body acidification, cellular hypoxia and reduced cell activity, which will increase the risk of cancer. At the same time, other chronic respiratory diseases will also greatly increase the chance of lung cancer.