If we suffer from malignant tumors, what else can we do besides standardized treatment?

If we suffer from malignant tumors, what else can we do besides standardized treatment?

Recently, Mr. Ge came to the hospital because of worsening cough and coughing up blood. After a series of examinations, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor told him that he needed standardized treatment as soon as possible. Mr. Ge hesitated, but finally agreed to follow the doctor's advice. After returning home, Mr. Ge told his family, and the whole family was depressed and unhappy, thinking: It's over, it's over...

Faced with the plight of Mr. Ge and his family, what else can we do except accept it?

We need to tell patients and their families to do the following:

Emotional regulation and management

1. Patients must understand that there are more and more medical methods now, and even malignant tumors can be treated. To put it bluntly, malignant tumors are also chronic diseases. We can still live with tumors.

2. As a doctor, during the diagnosis and treatment process, you need to encourage patients and care about their psychological dynamics. If necessary, you can ask a psychologist to help establish a good mentality for the patients.

3. As a patient, you should keep a happy spirit and learn to self-regulate. You can listen to music and do some activities to relieve tension and anxiety. If you have negative emotions, you can vent them appropriately.

4. As family members, you need to share the responsibility with the patient, spend more time with the patient, closely observe whether the patient has any discomfort during treatment, and communicate the condition with the attending physician in a timely manner; when the patient is depressed, comfort the patient more.

2. Adjustment of daily life

1. When at home, open windows and ventilate to keep the air fresh. In summer, do not stay in an air-conditioned room all day to avoid respiratory diseases.

2. If you smoke, it is recommended that you quit smoking in time. Also, as a family member, avoid smoking indoors. Because "second-hand smoke" can also cause harm, especially for patients with respiratory diseases.

3. Ensure adequate sleep and rest. When people are sick, their immunity will decrease, especially after receiving radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the body will be relatively weak. We must ensure adequate sleep so that we have the positive energy to resist the evil energy. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest.

4. When the patient spends a lot of time in bed, family members should keep the bed clean and dry, and change the sheets and bedding in time. Help the patient to clean the oral cavity and skin, and be gentle when nursing operations are needed.

5. Ensure the safety of the environment. Avoid sharp objects, toxic and harmful substances, and fragile items around the patient to prevent burns, falls, bumps, etc.

3. Dietary Adjustment

1. The diet should be light but nutritious. Many people like to eat porridge or soup every day after they get sick, but these are not appropriate. Adjust your diet according to your physical condition and under the guidance of a doctor.

2. During the stay in the hospital, the doctor will tell us about our physical condition and the current syndrome. Chinese medicine emphasizes syndrome differentiation and treatment, which varies from person to person.

If you have a deficiency syndrome, you should eat foods that replenish qi, nourish yin, and nourish blood, such as longan meat, jujube, eggs, lean meat, fish, yam, etc. You can usually eat millet and jujube porridge, lean meat porridge, glutinous rice and yam porridge, longan and lotus seed soup, etc.

If you have symptoms such as phlegm-dampness, phlegm-heat, etc., you should eat foods that clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and remove dampness, such as white radish, lotus seeds, coix seed, water chestnut, wild rice stem, etc. You can usually eat red bean and coix seed porridge, fried water chestnut shreds, stuffed bitter gourd, etc.

If you have blood stasis and toxin syndrome, you should eat foods that soften hard lumps, dissolve toxins and remove blood stasis, such as kelp, jellyfish, seaweed, peach kernel, mung bean, etc. You can eat mung bean porridge, kelp soup, peach kernel and seaweed soup, etc.

IV. Guidance on medication

1. Take medicines as directed by your doctor. For special medicines, you should find out which ones should be taken before meals, which ones should be taken after meals, and whether they can be taken at the same time as other medicines.

2. Do not stop taking the medicine or add or subtract the medicine without authorization during the medication period. If the dosage of the medicine needs to be adjusted, please communicate with the attending physician in time before making the adjustment.

3. If you are taking Chinese medicine, avoid spicy and greasy food. If you have diarrhea, avoid ointment prescriptions for the time being.

When we do the above points well and cooperate with standardized diagnosis and treatment, the disease will not be so difficult to deal with. Indeed, after being told that we have cancer, everyone finds it difficult to accept and unbelievable, thinking: Why does God treat me like this? What did I do wrong? Escape, denial, regret, self-blame, pessimism and other emotions follow. As time goes by, we slowly accept this fact. We have to live every day. We might as well think positively, live every day well, cooperate with treatment, live in the present, and make the most of our youth.