Most patients with early liver cancer have digestive symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue and pain in liver area. Therefore, special attention should be paid to giving digestible food in diet. There must be a certain amount of staple food in food, such as wheat flour, corn, sweet potato, millet and so on. Vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, rape, lettuce, cauliflower, kiwi fruit, oranges, strawberries, etc. Meat, bean products, milk and dairy products.
Many patients with liver cancer have bile secretion and excretion disorders, which makes it difficult to digest and absorb fat. So patients with liver cancer should not eat too much fat. Such as fat meat, fried food, dried fruits, sausages and other foods should be avoided. Low-fat diet can not only alleviate the digestive tract symptoms of patients with liver cancer, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and so on. , but also in the case of less fat in the diet, to some extent, reduce the pain in the liver area.
For patients with advanced liver cancer, the key point is to choose a diet that suits the taste of patients and has the effect of increasing appetite. In the process of catering, we must do everything possible to supplement nutrition and enhance the patient's resistance before receiving chemical drugs, radiation or surgery.
Patients with liver cancer often have symptoms such as loss of appetite and dry mouth when receiving radiotherapy. Diet should be nutritious and moist. At the same time, it should be supplemented by products that strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, such as lotus root, white lentils, water chestnut, longan, sweet orange, litchi, grapes, wax gourd, duck eggs, quail eggs, bird's nest and so on.
During the chemotherapy of liver cancer patients, due to the harm of the disease itself and the toxicity of drugs to the liver, symptoms such as poor appetite, belching and aversion to oil and bone marrow suppression often appear. It is advisable to choose foods that are light and refreshing and have the functions of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, nourishing blood and detoxifying, such as mountain flour, duck eggs, radishes, lotus roots, white gourd, red dates, oranges, fresh peaches, watermelons, turtles and crucian carp.