For many years, cancer friends have been accustomed to "tonic" after surgery, and this situation may change. The results showed that the number of postoperative infection complications of cancer patients in the experimental group with additional immune nutrition was twice as much as that in the control group with only general nutrition.

Taiwan Province Cancer Foundation released a statistic today (25th), and found that more than 70% of cancer friends think that postoperative nutrition is more important. Lai Jiming, CEO of the foundation, appealed that nutritional supplement before operation must not be ignored.

Take Lai as an example. Mr. Cai, who has been suffering from cancer for 8 years, is an obvious example. He and his relatives and friends around him believe that only when there is weight loss and loss of appetite should we start supplementing nutrition. He used to spend ten thousand yuan every month to buy high protein powder after surgery. The result of simply supplementing with high protein powder is that the more you supplement, the thinner you get. The weight is reduced from 70 kilograms before cancer to 60 kilograms, and you feel weaker and weaker.

Poor postoperative recovery is actually preoperative malnutrition.

Huang Mingde, director and vice president of surgery at Shuanghe Hospital, said that many patients would think that poor prognosis such as postoperative infection and wound nonunion are inevitable side effects of cancer treatment. Although the treatment does have an impact on the body, in fact, the chief culprit of loss of appetite and weight loss is the immune disorder caused by cancer cells, which makes patients have inflammatory reactions, which in turn leads to abnormal body function and metabolism. Therefore, it is very important to improve immunity before operation.

These three kinds of nutrition were supplemented 7 days before immune enhancement surgery.

According to the latest nutrition guideline issued by the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) in 2065438+07, fish oil, arginine and nucleotide are three kinds of nutrients that constitute the immune regulation of cancer patients. In addition to the balanced intake of high protein and high calorie as the nutritional basis, cancer friends should strengthen the supplement of triple immune nutrition seven days before operation to strengthen their anti-cancer immunity.

Wei Binhui, director of the Nutrition Department of Wan Fang Hospital, said that fish oil, arginine and nucleotide are listed as important immune nutrients because omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish oil can reduce inflammatory substances released by the body; Under stress, arginine can be used as an energy source of immune cells, which helps to maintain immune function, while nucleotides can increase the number and mature differentiation of immune cells.

"It is difficult to get enough of these three nutrients through the general diet. Therefore, it is recommended that cancer friends follow the advice of professional nutritionists and supplement some special nutrients for cancer patients in time, "Wei Binhui suggested.