What are the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Yesterday, when I went out to play with my cousin, my cousin told me that she suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, but my cousin's health is very good, how can she get cancer. Then I accompanied her to the hospital, the doctor said suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, my cousin is more lucky, is early. The doctor told me that there are many kinds of clinical symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Let me tell you about the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

What are the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Symptom 1: bloody nose is an early symptom of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is characterized by blood in the nasal mucus, or nasal mucus with blood sucked back from the mouth, also known as blood in the aspirated sputum. Epistaxis often occurs after getting up in the morning. When the amount of blood in the nose is not large, it is often neglected by the patients, mistakenly considered as rhinitis or sinusitis, or treated as hemoptysis to the internal medicine department. Leukaemia also can be identical with this kind of symptom, so if nose is irregular haemorrhage, must go to a hospital to check first, see what reason is.

Symptom 2: tinnitus, ear stuffiness and hearing loss are also early signs of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This symptom is caused by the blockage of the pharyngeal tympanic orifice by a new organism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Hearing loss may also be caused by the deterioration of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the damage of auditory nerve. Tinnitus and hearing loss are often misdiagnosed as otitis media or other diseases, resulting in delayed treatment. Once people get older, it's easy to lose hearing and hearing loss, so if they suffer from nasopharyngeal carcinoma, it's easy to have this symptom, and many people don't pay attention to it.

Symptom 3: about 70% of NPC patients have headache at the time of initial diagnosis. The headache symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma are often manifested as migraine, cranioparietal occipital pain or neck pain. The headache of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is mostly related to the invasion of skull base bone, nerves and blood vessels by cancer tissue. Generally speaking, in clinical medicine, there are many diseases will have headache symptoms, so once there are headache symptoms, we must go to the hospital to check.

matters needing attention

Avoid spicy food, such as chili, fried food, etc., and eat less hot and dry food, such as dog meat, mutton, rabbit meat, yellow croaker, hairtail, litchi, etc. No smoking, limit drinking, this is one of the dietary considerations of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In daily life, you can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and appropriately supplement some high protein, eat more protein food, enhance the body's immune ability, you can go to the outdoor exercise, but don't do strenuous exercise.