What to eat after chemotherapy for breast cancer

Most breast cancer patients need to undergo chemotherapy. After chemotherapy, they should pay attention to their daily eating habits, because some foods can be eaten and some foods cannot be eaten. Don’t ignore these small details and cause serious consequences. Let’s take a look at what the diet is like after chemotherapy for breast cancer?

1. It is advisable to eat more foods that have anti-breast cancer effects, such as seahorses, horseshoe crabs, cobra meat, sperm whale oil, toad meat, crabs, clams, oysters, hawksbill turtle meat, kelp, asparagus, and agar-agar.

2. It is advisable to eat more foods that can enhance immunity and prevent recurrence, including mulberries, kiwis, asparagus, pumpkins, dates, onions, leeks, coix seeds, green beans, yam, mushrooms, dried shrimps, crabs, herring, prawns, and snakes.

3. For swelling, it is advisable to eat coix seed, loofah, red bean, taro, grape, lychee, water chestnut, crucian carp, catfish, mackerel, kelp, loach, yellow catfish, and snail.

4. For swelling, pain and nipple retraction, you should eat fennel, chopped green onion, shrimp, sea dragon, sperm whale, tangerine cake, ginkgo (fěi) nut, grapefruit and horseshoe crab.

As an auxiliary treatment method, you can take Jinxiong (ginsenoside Rh2) capsules or traditional Chinese medicines such as Dendrobium officinale as needed, which can enhance the treatment effect, relieve the patient's pain, prevent recurrence and metastasis, and improve the quality of life. At the same time, pay attention to diet and necessary exercise.

Breast cancer patients should avoid eating raw onions, garlic, sow meat, pumpkin, strong alcohol, as well as spicy, warm, fried, greasy, meaty, stale, moldy foods that promote fire and produce phlegm and hinder the spleen's function. It is advisable to eat foods that have the function of resolving phlegm, softening and dispersing nodules, such as kelp, seaweed, laver, oysters, asparagus, and fresh kiwi fruit.

The above are the dietary habits for patients after breast cancer chemotherapy. Eating some anti-cancer foods is an auxiliary treatment method. There is an old Chinese saying that disease comes from the mouth, so we still need to pay attention to our food hygiene and know what food we can eat and what we cannot eat.