Nutrition for lung cancer
With anticancer therapy, the diet of lung cancer patients differs significantly from that of a healthy person.
Any organism - male or female, young or "not so", healthy or sick, should receive a balanced, high-calorie diet.
Naturally, with any disease, the body needs as much energy and strength as possible in order to defeat the disease. This statement is especially true for cancer, because a sharp loss of body weight is a critical moment.
When the lungs are damaged by a cancer, the patient's metabolism is disturbed - carbohydrate, protein, lipid, and even problems with the immune system arise.
Content:
- What should the diet of a lung cancer patient consist of?
- Other recommended products:
- Nutrition for chemotherapy for lung cancer
- Nutrition after chemotherapy for lung cancer
What should the diet of a lung cancer patient consist of?
Every person with cancer should know what nutrition should be, what foods are healthy, and what are contraindicated. Various modern methods can fight the tumor, but they are not perfect, and the diet plays an important role in the patient's recovery. Nutrients obtained from food will help keep the body in good shape.
Cancer patients have never had an excellent appetite, and one of the symptoms of cancer is characterized by its absence. To find the right diet and food for lung cancer, you need the advice of an experienced nutritionist.
The patient must have an easily digestible dietary meat. Eating fruits and vegetables - unlimited. Only purified water is suitable for drinking.
Valuable elements and antioxidants enter the body with chicken eggs, unrefined vegetable oils, fresh herbs.
Other recommended products:
- Various varieties of nuts, pumpkin seeds;
- Seaweed;
- Pasta and cereals;
- Turmeric;
- Soy;
- Dairy products;
- Lean sea fish;
- Green tea, herbal teas.
Lung cancer patients need to know which foods can harm the body. First, I must say that products such as:
- Any canned food;
- Baking;
- Lard, butter;
- Confectionery;
- Coffee;
- Alcohol;
- Fried and fatty foods are highly undesirable during treatment.
Nutrition for chemotherapy for lung cancer
Chemotherapy, as well as surgery, radiation therapy are very aggressive methods. Treatment is aimed at destroying tumor cells, and has a negative effect on the amount of proteins. Doctors treating the disease with chemotherapy advise patients to replenish their protein reserves through foods - meat (dietary), poultry, fish.
Nutrition after chemotherapy for lung cancer
For some patients, it becomes a problem to eat some of the recommended foods. This can be explained by vomiting.
In this case, nutritionists advise eating alternative foods that are lower in calories and are easier to digest:
- Milk and sour milk products;
- Chicken and quail eggs;
- Soybeans, beans, peas, vegetable oil;
- Spices with a pleasant smell and taste.
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"
