Surgical resection is one of the common measures for cancer treatment. The patient's nutritional status directly affects the success of the operation. Here we only introduce the patient's dietary care before and after the operation.

(1) Dietary care before surgery

Cancer resection surgeries, especially some removal surgeries, are major surgeries and cause great trauma to the patient's body. Therefore, giving patients a good diet before surgery can help the patient have a good physical condition to ensure the smooth progress of the surgery, and is also a necessary condition for promoting the patient's recovery.

Therefore, patients should increase nutrition in the period before surgery. For example, thin patients should eat high-calorie, high-protein, and high-vitamin meals so that patients can gain weight in the short term; for obese patients, A high-protein, low-fat meal should be given to store part of the protein and consume body fat, because excess body fat will affect wound healing. Patients suffering from tumors in different parts of the body must also have targeted diet arrangements. For example, patients with liver, gallbladder, and pancreatic tumors must eat a low-fat diet, while patients with gastrointestinal tumors must have a liquid or semi-liquid diet with little residue before surgery. Reduce residue in the gastrointestinal tract. Generally, patients should fast 12 hours before surgery and water 4 to 6 hours before surgery to prevent vomiting or aspiration pneumonia during anesthesia or surgery. The accumulation of more food in the gastrointestinal tract will also affect the smooth progress of the surgery. (2) Dietary care after surgery

In the early stage after surgery, nutrition is usually provided through special means, such as intravenous hypernutrition. After the gastrointestinal function is restored, the patient can be given a clear liquid or liquid diet first, gradually transition to a semi-liquid diet, and then to a soft diet or ordinary diet after a period of time, so as to supplement the patient with a large amount of protein and vitamins. In order to promote the patient's early recovery or to receive other treatments as soon as possible, in principle, the patient should be given a nutritious diet high in protein, high calories and high vitamins after surgery, such as beef, mutton, lean pork, chicken, fish, shrimp, eggs and soy products. Patients drink more milk, lotus root powder and fresh juice, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

(3) Meal arrangements for patients with different surgical sites

① Patients undergoing non-thoracic and abdominal surgery generally eat after the anesthesia reaction disappears or after minor surgery, and cold liquid food can be given first , give liquid food the next day, and change to semi-liquid food on the third day. After oral tumor surgery, you should be allowed to eat as appropriate, preferably semi-liquid food and soft meals. The diet should be nutritious and consist of fine, soft and rotten foods, such as milk, yogurt, soy milk, tofu curd, lotus root starch, batter, pureed vegetables, pureed meat, etc. Avoid hard foods or spicy foods.

② For patients undergoing abdominal surgery, after gastrointestinal surgery, the patient will have flatulence 3 to 4 days after the operation, and then can eat a small amount of clear liquids, and then switch to a full liquid diet; after a few days, the patient can switch to a semi-liquid diet with less residue. , it takes a period of time to transition to soft food, and then you can use ordinary meals after adapting.

③ For patients undergoing head tumor surgery and those who are comatose after surgery, reasonable dietary care can promote early recovery and reduce the occurrence of complications. Comatose patients can generally be given high-calorie, high-protein liquid food through nasogastric feeding.

In addition, lung cancer patients are reminded that after surgical treatment, they should also use traditional Chinese medicine to support righteousness to help patients recover after surgery and improve their immune function.