How to carry out home care for patients with gastric cancer after operation? The biological immunotherapy of gastric cancer is the most effective and safe adjuvant therapy. Biological immunotherapy combined with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will have a strong complementary effect, but family care is an indispensable step.
1、 Patients should have a fresh, warm living environment, avoid noise, irritability; family members should maintain good emotional and ideological exchanges with patients, should not discriminate against, indifferent patients, timely find and eliminate all kinds of worries of patients. Help patients to get rid of smoking, drinking and other bad habits. The patient's diet should be regular, fragrant and delicious, rich in balanced nutrition and easy to digest. Do moderate outdoor activities in the morning and evening to breathe fresh air. The activity of muscles and bones is conducive to the smooth flow of meridians and Qi and blood. You can also listen to music, practice calligraphy, and raise fish and birds to make your life more interesting. Actively cooperate with the treatment, pay attention to family nursing during radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
2、 For those with obvious nausea and vomiting, avoid cold and greasy, eat less and have more meals, soak ginger and orange peel in water, drink frequently, and massage Zusanli, Neiguan and other acupoints with acupuncture. Patients with epigastric pain can also be treated with local massage and distal acupuncture; if severe pain occurs, painkillers should be used, which can be combined with the application of analgesics.
Afternoon hot flashes, patients drink warm water, if necessary, alcohol bath and acupuncture antipyretic, can also use indomethacin suppository half plug anus. Gastric cancer complicated with hematemesis shows that the patient is in critical condition and should be rescued on the spot. The patient should lie flat with his head to one side to prevent the blood and gastric contents from flowing back to the airway and causing suffocation. He can take ice salt water or boiled water at the same time and then drink it. He can also take Yunnan Baiyao. He can ask a doctor for treatment in time or send it to the hospital as soon as possible.
Pay attention to the changes of pulse, respiration, blood pressure, skin temperature, etc., and the changes of consciousness, etc. For patients with large amount of ascites and cachexia, it is necessary to strengthen diet care, appropriately increase nutrition, eat more food rich in protein and vitamins, and also take meat and blood affectionate products, such as turtle, placenta, etc. avoid too much supplement, and lead to other diseases. For long-term bedridden, pay attention to the prevention and treatment of bedsore on the pressed part, and help patients turn over more. Air cushion or cotton pad can be used on the pressed part to keep local dryness. If the formation of bedsore, then daily with infrared light local irradiation, and with ulcer oil smear affected part.
3、 Dietotherapy: during chemotherapy, the main manifestations are gastrointestinal reaction and bone marrow suppression, so it can be used to regulate and tonify the spleen and stomach, liver and kidney, as well as eggs, lean meat, animal bone marrow, royal jelly, angelica, ginger and mutton soup. During radiotherapy, the main manifestation was heat toxin injuring Yin, and pear juice could be taken. After the operation of gastric cancer, it is better to eat less and eat more meals, eat dry food and drink less soup, which can reduce the frequency and degree of dumping syndrome. High protein, high fat and low carbohydrate foods are recommended, and milk is not recommended for this syndrome.
It can play a unique curative effect of recovery and reconstruction for patients' damaged immune system: by regulating and enhancing the body's immunity and anti-cancer ability, it can systematically inhibit and kill cancer cells, so as to effectively curb the spread and metastasis of tumor.