After a series of treatments, such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, many cancer patients lose appetite, and some patients may have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and even anorexia, resulting in insufficient nutrition intake and rapid weight loss. If nutritional treatment is not timely, it will lead to malnutrition, increase treatment complications, poor anti-cancer treatment effect and decline in quality of life.

In addition to the gradual transition of postoperative diet, how to improve appetite by orally supplementing formula food for special medical purposes? What should I eat? How to eat?

Chen Shengruo, nutritionist in charge of nutrition department of Wenzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, will answer your questions.

Try these methods to appetize.

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You can choose to eat some appetizing foods, such as hawthorn, tomato, yogurt, grapes, pineapple, millet, sauerkraut and so on.

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Choose your favorite ingredients and work hard on cooking. A small amount of spices such as ginger, cinnamon, fennel, dried tangerine peel, lemon juice, tomato juice, vinegar and so on can be used to arouse the desire to eat.

When cooking, try to make the food delicious and have an appetite, eat more rice and gradually increase the intake of nutrients, such as fish and shrimp, lean meat, egg milk, fresh vegetables and fruits.

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You can find experienced Chinese medicine practitioners and prescribe some Chinese medicines for regulating the spleen and stomach according to your illness, so as to improve the symptoms of nausea and vomiting and stimulate your appetite.

Eat well and eat well.

After the appetite is improved, it should be reminded not to overeat, so as not to cause indigestion, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other discomfort. Eat well and eat well.

How much is enough?

Eating enough means that cancer patients should consume enough energy.

Cancer patients need to consume energy according to the standard of 25~30kcal per kilogram of body weight every day. For example, a tumor patient weighs 60kg, and the daily target energy intake is 1500~ 1800kcal.

Common food reference energy:

What is the correct way to eat?

Proper diet means that the types of ingredients that cancer patients eat should be reasonable. The principle of diet therapy for cancer patients is high protein, high fat and low sugar.

Generally, the diet of patients is mainly sugar (carbohydrate) (such as simple porridge and stewed dessert), but this is not suitable for tumor patients. protein and fat (such as eggs, fish and milk) should be supplemented reasonably.

Can be balanced under the guidance of nutritionists, and can be used for tumor patients who can not adapt to a high-protein and high-fat diet, and can increase enteral nutrition preparations rich in protein and fat.

Don't blindly avoid eating, and don't blindly refuse some so-called "hair products", such as seafood and chicken.

It is not recommended that tumor patients blindly buy tonics such as ginseng, Dendrobium, Cordyceps, bird's nest and donkey-hide gelatin. The homologous ingredients of medicine and food should be selected according to the constitution and condition, so as to avoid adverse effects on the condition.

In short, adequate intake of nutrients is a necessary condition to ensure normal physiological activities of the body. Don't limit the intake of dietary nutrients for fear of tumor growth. Only when the physique is enhanced can we tolerate treatment and better resist tumors.