Nutrition for stomach cancer
For patients diagnosed with stomach cancer, food should have its own characteristics. Many previously favorite products will have to be completely abandoned, and vice versa include some “unusual” dishes in the menu.
Content:
- What is recommended for stomach cancer patients
- The following dishes are allowed:
- Contraindicated foods in the treatment of stomach cancer
General principles of nutrition for patients
When a person wants to avoid recurrence of cancer pathology after surgery, a course of chemotherapy, to reduce the symptoms of an organ disease, you need to seriously revise your diet.
What should be done in this case? The main condition is that food for stomach cancer should not contain carcinogenic substances. You need to adhere to the following rules:
- Reduce portions consumed. In this case, you can eat up to 10 times a day;
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Monitor the temperature of the food. Do not eat very hot or cold food. Food is digested well, close in temperature to normal, human;
- Food should be well chewed without large pieces. This reduces the stress on the stomach and promotes proper absorption of nutrients;
- Steam or boil food. Fried foods irritate the stomach lining;
- Eat only freshly prepared meals;
- It is necessary to abandon harsh seasonings and spices, although garlic is useful when eating after gastric resection for cancer.
- To increase the volume of exclusively "light" food of plant origin. Vegetables and fruits, fresh or cooked, contain fiber, which contributes to the proper release of the organ. Enzymes and vitamins contained in plant foods limit the spread of malignant cells.
- Nutrition after removal of the stomach for cancer should be with a minimum amount of salt and the fat composition should not exceed 30%, and the bulk of the fat should come from plant products;
- It is especially difficult to organize nutrition in case of stomach cancer of the 4th degree with metastases. In such cases, patients often refuse to eat at all.
What is recommended for stomach cancer patients
A person with such a diagnosis as a malignant tumor should know well what he can eat and what should be discarded. Such knowledge will help to compose a complete menu that would satisfy the patient's taste needs and at the same time serve as a means of recuperation.
The following dishes are allowed:
- Vegetable and milk soups, the components of which must be pureed;
- Raw and boiled soft-boiled eggs;
- Low-fat varieties of meat and fish;
- Low-fat cottage cheese;
- Well-cooked porridge;
- Bread made from premium flour, preferably not fresh;
- Kissels from fruits and berries;
- Butter;
- Vegetable fats.
To recover after stomach surgery or a course of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, patients need to eat as many ripe vegetables, fruits, and berries as possible. It is recommended to give preference to fruits with red and yellow skins, as they contain carotenoids that have an antitumor effect in the human body. Substances - anthocyanins, which are rich in beets, red cabbage and eggplants - inhibit the action of cancer cells.
In the diet menu after removal of the stomach with cancer, there must be lemons, oranges, tangerines. And in the spring, diversify the menu with early vegetables - radishes, cucumbers, parsley, green onions.
You need to know that even with the heat treatment of vegetables - carrots, beets, peppers, onions, they retain all the nutrients.
Contraindicated foods in the treatment of stomach cancer
At any stage of malignant neoplasm of the chest, products with dyes, flavors and preservatives are undesirable.
In fatty and overcooked foods, carcinogens are retained, and rough, salty and hot foods irritate the gastric mucosa.
Coffee, strong tea, carbonated drinks, alcohol should be completely excluded from the menu of a stomach cancer patient.
The relapse of the disease can largely be prevented by proper, balanced nutrition.
The author of the article: Bykov Evgeny Pavlovich | Oncologist, surgeon
Education: graduated from residency at the Russian Scientific Oncological Center. N. N. Blokhin "and received a diploma in the specialty" Oncologist"
