Monday, February 23, 2009

Food and nutritional supplements in patients with lung cancer

Since 1982, cancer is the people's first top ten causes of death over the past few years European and American countries have a significant increase in lung cancer Friend trend, according to Department of Health statistics show that is also true in Taiwan, accounting respectively for male cancer disease and the second female cancer first. Friend in the lung cancer often appears poor appetite, weight loss, weakness, easy fatigue symptoms, and sometimes also have a high calcium, low sodium, low blood magnesium case, therefore, how to make adjustments in the diet to help them eat aspects of quality, but also to improve the biochemical data and clinical adverse symptoms, it is important that one of the topics. 



 Loss of appetite or breathing, often caused by insufficient intake of Friend of lung cancer leads to malnutrition, which affects the immune system weakened and so, therefore, has this situation arisen going to help them? 



 1. A good time to choose the time to eat: 



 Daily best things to eat and feeling hungry time; or physical feeling of discomfort when; Furthermore antiemetic or taking painkillers at all times; and even dinner and snacks set period of time, time to eat. In addition to eating good time to choose the timing, but also should pay attention to the fine eating quality. 



 2. To take the fine quality of food: 



 What is the dark-red-induced eating quality, namely the use of high-nutrient concentrations of food or in the absence of disease need to diet therapy, the intake of their favorite food. High nutrient concentrations of food, the soup can be any way to increase the use of starch calories, but also add milk and protein solution in addition to adding flavor, but also rich in protein volume, one of milk such as the use of high concentrations of nutrients (such as per to provide 1.5 ml of 2 cards or calories), can achieve higher heat and sources of protein. Some foods ingredients, such as ginkgo, lilies, Chinese yam, lotus root, edible fungus, such as sexual Adlay ping, the argument has Moistening Lung Buqi, the practical application of more sophisticated food can be achieved, such as Chinese yam, lotus root, edible fungus, Coix Hui, philoxeroides etc with rice are the staple food categories (grains, tubers, and roots), often eat rice with a friend, to be used in Chinese yam (Lotus) spareribs soup may also make use of Adlay, lotus seeds, red dates make sweet soup, an increase staple food source. With the opportunity to eat good time to eat the exquisite quality of the target. Another is eating recipe kit. 



 3. The use of food kit recipe: 



 The use of some small skills, will enable better appetite or food intake more, such as , fasting or eating less drinking moderate exercise (walking) will enable more food intake; and eat less greasy objects, many of something new fruits and vegetables can help appetite, accompanied by family members has also prepared a meal or a pleasant dining environment coupled with the point of music, the inevitable loss of some trust. 



 Friends in the loss of appetite can make use of the time good time to eat, fine quality and recipe tips to achieve the purpose of increasing heat, thus able to maintain weight and improve symptoms such as fatigue. If hypercalcemia is required to avoid a number of high calcium foods such as milk, do small fish, oyster, sesame, Nostoc, etc.; If you can not eat are used for nasogastric tube feeding would have with the physician or Dietitians contact, select a lower calcium tube feeding formula. Friend of lung cancer are some of the above-mentioned problem of treatment, but the most basic diet is a balanced diet, do not forget the staple food category, meat, fish eggs, beans, vegetables, fruits, fats and dairy categories, six categories of food balance go, and remain optimistic about the psychological, but also do not forget there are a group of friends on your side, I believe every day is filled with peace and joy. 



         For each, a friend of mine, "the maintenance, cultivation, nutrition," We can not have one on nutrition is concerned, the first most important elements of a balanced diet, such as loss of appetite, eat rice, rice can be used with the same type of food substitution, such as yam, Adlay, lotus root, lotus seeds, etc., to create dishes such as Chinese wolfberry yam ribs, can provide a source of rice and meat (protein), or jujube soup as a snack philoxeroides tremella; otherwise tastes change, the use of some special Flavor Materials, such as Chinese wolfberry, mushrooms, tomato, pineapple, etc. to taste, such as pineapple shrimp, grilled mushrooms, such as dual Moreover really not enough when intake is required to add nutritional supplements a timely manner in order to have proper nutritional needs. There are a small skill, at the most be able to eat when ready "quality" the best or the most wanted food, so that patients have their satisfaction. Of course, said to be easy, but the actual implementation of go, there are still difficulties, but as long as the heart, I believe that everything can be solved.

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