Three reasons for getting thinner.
1. Increased consumption caused by tumor
The biggest feature of cancer cells is infinite proliferation, and the proliferation rate is very fast, in the process it will consume a lot of nutrients. Glucose is the staple food of cancer cells, and its ability to absorb glucose is more than 10 times that of normal cells. Moreover, tumor cells secrete fat mobilization factor and protein degradation inducing factor, which both lead to catabolism, protein and lipolysis, and make human body lose weight continuously.
2. Malnutrition caused by bad emotions
Cancer patients will experience despair, fear and pain after knowing that they have cancer. Many patients with poor psychological quality will not be able to get out of the haze of cancer. If not solved in time, these negative emotions will affect the movement of digestive system through neuroendocrine mechanism, reduce the secretion of digestive juice, and lead to a decline in appetite. After a long time, patients will have symptoms such as malnutrition and weight loss. The appearance of these symptoms constantly reminds patients of the existence of tumors and the possibility of death, which easily leads to patients' negative emotions and forms a vicious circle.
3. Side effects such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Surgical resection is the most common treatment for cancer patients, such as surgical resection of stomach, liver and intestine, and it is also one of the key factors that cause malnutrition in patients. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy, cancer patients will have symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite and weakened digestive ability, which will lead to malnutrition and weight loss.
How to recuperate after radiotherapy and chemotherapy
Some chemotherapy drugs will have serious side effects, patients will have vomiting, diarrhea and other phenomena, unable to eat, leading to thinner and thinner, then we suggest diet conditioning.
Dietary suggestion: Take easy absorption as the degree, the diet should be light, eat liquid or semi-liquid, and eat a small amount of meals. If you vomit and feel sick during chemotherapy, you can eat some ginger, which has the effect of stopping vomiting. Drinking more water than usual during chemotherapy can ensure the normal operation of renal function and promote drug metabolism and excretion.
Recommended dietary prescription
1. Yiqi Buxue porridge: 20 grams of peanut and wolfberry, 50 grams of yam, 30 grams of astragalus, and 0/00 gram of japonica rice, cooked together.
Astragalus can replenish qi, enhance immunity and increase white blood cells; Peanut, medlar and yam are all good products for invigorating qi and nourishing blood and improving immunity.
2. Soybean bone soup: soybean 100g, a piece of meat and bone, 2 pieces of ginger, a little salt and yellow wine. Soak soybeans in advance, wash bones and remove blood, and put some yellow wine. Add water to the pot, and add bones, soybeans and ginger to the water for stewing. Add some salt to taste. This product is rich in nutrition and has a certain effect of increasing white blood cells.
3. Jinsheng drink: fresh reed rhizome, fresh grass rhizome, pear and lotus root can be drunk by squeezing juice.
This product is especially suitable for dry mouth, decreased taste and burning sensation during radiotherapy. You can also use reed rhizome and cogongrass rhizome to decoct soup.
Fat can't go back during recovery.
Some cancer patients were strong before getting sick and lost weight during treatment, but after cancer treatment and rehabilitation, their weight never recovered to the level before getting sick. In fact, patients should not be too entangled in this problem. Chinese medicine believes that in the prevention and treatment of all diseases, including epidemics, we advocate strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits. Helping healthy qi can improve the ability to resist evil spirits. If positive, diseases and pathogens will naturally be driven away. Strengthening the body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors is an important therapeutic idea in Neijing: "Those who are not infected with each other, the healthy qi stays inside, and the evil does not cause trouble".
If you want to be healthy, you must develop yang, do everything possible to store more yang for yourself, and improve your immunity through various methods. Excess of yang leads to retreat of yin and evil. It is also important to eat regularly, eat more fruits and vegetables, and exercise moderately!
Transferred from traditional Chinese medicine He Yumin