2. Food should be fresh, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and increase the intake of high-quality protein.
3. Gastric cancer patients often have the symptoms of fullness and pain in stomach and epigastric region, so they should eat easy-to-digest food; for common symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, it is better to eat appetizing and light food.
4. Dietary management after gastric cancer surgery should be highly nutritious and less stimulating. Staple food is good for patients who are accustomed to varieties in their daily life, and adding Coix seed porridge and glutinous rice porridge is beneficial. Fresh meat, fresh eggs, fresh vegetables and fresh fruits are good for side dishes. Postoperative patients 3-5 meals a day, the amount of food gradually increased, many patients can return to the preoperative meal after six months. If there is nausea and vomiting after meals, there is no need to be anxious, you can sit for a moment or take a walk slowly, the symptoms can be reduced. Can also be used ginger 10 grams of decoction soup frequently served.
5. Patients with advanced gastric cancer are mostly in the state of systemic failure, having difficulty in eating and loss of appetite, so they should eat more fresh pomegranate, fresh plum, fresh hawthorn, and also can take orange peel, pepper, ginger, rock sugar, chicken gizzard in appropriate amount, and decoct the soup for internal use. Patients presenting malignant state should be given more protein food, such as milk, eggs, goose meat, goose blood, lean pork, beef and fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. Glutinous rice porridge is required to be boiled.
6. Post-operative diet
It is necessary to pay attention to preventing dumping syndrome and hypoglycemia syndrome after gastric cancer operation. The main manifestation of dumping syndrome is eating sweet fluid, such as sweetened milk, 10~20 minutes later, then feeling epigastric discomfort, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea, generalized fatigue, dizziness, sweating, panic, facial flushing, even hypoglycemia. The syndrome can be controlled by dietary modification. Symptoms of heavy and recurrent authors, should eat high protein, high fat, low carbohydrate food, down to a small number of meals, meals to avoid drinking liquid food such as fluids, the best after the meal to lie down for 30 minutes, half an hour after the meal to 1 hour to stay in order to drink a small amount of sugar-free liquids. After this adjustment, it can effectively slow down the speed of gastric thermo-electric plant emptying and the amount of emptying. 1~2 years later, the symptoms can be gradually reduced and no longer attack. The main manifestation of postoperative hypoglycemic syndrome is panic, sweating, weakness, dizziness, hand tremor, hunger, drowsiness or weakness 2~4 hours after eating. The reason for this is that food is discharged into the jejunum too quickly, glucose is absorbed too quickly, blood glucose increases transiently, stimulating the pancreas to secrete too much insulin, which then causes reactive hypoglycemia. The way to control this syndrome through dietary modification is to eat small, frequent meals, eat a high protein, high fat and low carbohydrate diet, and avoid sweet, overheated fluid diets. Lie down for 10-20 minutes after meals, and prepare sugary foods that can be taken orally to correct hypoglycemia. Most patients can gradually recover from this conditioning in 6 months to 1 year.
7. Chemotherapy diet
Chemotherapy often causes nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, bloating and diarrhea and other digestive symptoms. In order to ensure the smooth progress of chemotherapy, should pay attention to the following points: ① deal with the relationship between diet and the peak time of the action of chemotherapy drugs, to avoid eating at the peak of the action of drugs. For example, if the drug is administered intravenously, it is best to do it on an empty stomach, because an empty stomach can reduce nausea and vomiting symptoms. If the use of oral administration, to take after meals is good, because the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream by 2 ~ 3 hours, the concentration of the highest, even if the digestive reaction is fasting state, the symptoms will be reduced. ② During chemotherapy, the number of meals should be more than usual, the food should be thin and soft and easy to digest, but also rich in protein, vitamins and sufficient heat. Even if there is vomiting, but also to insist on eating, if necessary, through the infusion of energy.
8. Diet during radiotherapy
Nausea and loss of appetite may occur during radiotherapy, and vomiting may occur at the peak. Radiotherapy can be late abdominal pain and diarrhea, blood decline, decreased immune function, it is necessary to give adequate nutrition and rich in vitamins, in order to replenish the blood. Yin deficiency should be clear tonic, commonly used foods are yam, cinnamon, lotus seed, fungus, mushrooms, lily, rock sugar, lotus root, tofu, honey, mung beans, duck, turtle, mussels, cow's milk, Job's tears, jujubes, glutinous rice and so on.
Diet should be corresponding to the body: plain rich people should not enter the fatty food, should be more into the light food; Hugh thin patients should not eat dry food, should eat more nourishing Yin Jin's food. No matter what kind of constitution, we should eat more vegetables and fruits, mushrooms, beans, foods rich in selenium, molybdenum and other trace elements, and foods rich in allicin (e.g., garlic, green onions, etc.). Do not eat moldy, smoked, pickled food.