The combination of dietotherapy and treatment will have a better effect and may slow down the development of the disease.
Leukemia is a blood tumor with a high degree of malignancy, which consumes a lot of human body and is mostly caused by deficiency of viscera. Therefore, we should strengthen nutrition in diet and enhance the body's disease resistance, so as to slow down the disease and ensure treatment. Nutrition supply: choose high-calorie (at least 6300 ~ 7560 kilojoules per day) high-protein food, lean meat, eggs, fish, animal offal, beans and their products; Sugar, at least 300 grams a day; High vegetarian diet (vegetarian dishes), fresh vegetables (vegetarian dishes), fruits (fruits), juices, etc. It is necessary to fully replenish water and maintain its electrolyte balance. Such as sodium, potassium, chlorine and calcium (calcium food); Fruit juice, milk, porridge, soup and watery soup, such as watermelon soup, autumn pear juice, tomato juice, sugarcane juice, milk, honey (honey food) and so on.
During chemotherapy, the diet is mainly high in protein and vitamins (vitamin foods), such as milk, eggs, goose blood, mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, jujube, lotus root, spinach, apples (apple foods), oranges, caramel and so on. Patients with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and anorexia caused by chemotherapy can use foods such as bamboo shoots, asparagus, sugarcane juice, autumn pears, coix seed and yam. It has the effects of regulating stomach, stopping vomiting, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea.
During radiotherapy, the diet should be moist, palatable and nutritious, such as mountain flour, almond paste, crucian carp, eel, lotus root, black sesame, mulberry, banana and Pak Lei.
In the late stage, most patients suffer from qi and blood injury, deficiency of both yin and yang, disharmony between zang-fu organs and decreased stomach qi. Medicinal diet is mainly tonic, but it is not suitable for big tonic. It is appropriate to appetize and eat, replenish qi and strengthen the body. Such as broth, soup porridge, milk, ginseng chicken soup, etc. And mushrooms (mushroom food), turtles, sea cucumbers, placentas, pangolin scales, frog oil (oily food), longan, jujube, pomegranate and the like. Pay attention to cooking, which is conducive to stimulating appetite.
Fever, hemorrhage and anemia are one of the common and important symptoms of leukemia, so we should eat more foods and drugs that enrich blood (blood-enriching food), generate blood and promote blood circulation, such as turtle glue, donkey-hide gelatin, turtle soup, bone soup, fish scale glue and yam porridge. People with hemorrhagic anemia due to deficiency syndrome should choose American ginseng, longan pulp, big red dates, peeled peanuts, fresh pig gizzards, goose blood and other foods with the functions of benefiting qi, nourishing yin and nourishing blood. Fresh lotus root, cogongrass rhizome, thistle, shepherd's purse, Malan, eggplant, fungus, etc. It was selected as an edible Chinese medicine for cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
Dietotherapy and drug therapy should be consistent, and some Chinese herbal medicines should be selected to eat together with anti-leukemia foods.
Leukemia should not be taken to promote hematopoiesis.
food
Strawberry has a good effect on leukemia, aplastic anemia and other blood diseases.
royal jelly
Royal jelly has the effects of nourishing, strengthening and strengthening the spleen, and is especially suitable for patients with cancer and leukopenia after treatment. It is reported that an old woman in her seventies has breast cancer, and then lung cancer. She is old and weak, and her white blood cell is only 65,438+0,000/ml. She can neither have surgery nor receive chemotherapy. The old man had to try fresh royal jelly. 10 days later, her white blood cells rose to 5000/ml.
jujube
Jujube has the effects of invigorating spleen, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, and is suitable for people with blood deficiency, anemia, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia. It is a folk custom to cook porridge with red dates, red beans and glutinous rice for cancer patients with leukopenia after radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Mushroom
It is reported that polysaccharides extracted from artificially cultivated fresh mushrooms have obvious curative effect on leukopenia. For patients with leukopenia, you can eat fresh mushrooms in moderation. Lentinus edodes can also improve autoimmune function, and can be used to enhance the effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with malignant tumors, and prevent and treat immune hypofunction such as leukopenia caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
ginseng
Ginseng can greatly replenish primordial qi and strengthen the body, especially suitable for patients with leukopenia characterized by qi deficiency and yang deficiency, physical weakness and shortness of breath, and chills and fatigue.
dangshen
Codonopsis pilosula has the functions of invigorating qi, invigorating stomach and qi and blood, which is commonly used by people with qi deficiency. Pharmacological experiments show that normal rabbits can increase the proportion of neutrophils after taking Codonopsis pilosula continuously, and Codonopsis pilosula can increase the number of white blood cells caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
peanut
Peanut has the reputation of "plant meat", "longevity fruit" and "China nut", and it is one of the fruits for family daily entertainment. It is rich in nutrition and has high medicinal value. Modern experimental research shows that peanuts can increase white blood cells, especially for leukopenia caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy in tumor patients.