What to eat in chemotherapy

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During chemotherapy, while chemical drugs kill tumor cells, normal cells will inevitably be damaged, resulting in side effects. This period is the weakest time for the human body, so we should pay special attention to the diet. What kind of food do you eat during chemotherapy?

What to eat in chemotherapy

The food should be diversified, the food should be diversified, and those low-fat, high protein, multi vitamin and easy to digest food should be selected. Do not eat spicy, fried, pungent and other junk food. Take coarse and fine grains as staple food to ensure the nutritional balance.

During chemotherapy, patients will have poor appetite, which will lead to malnutrition, resulting in not being able to recover as soon as possible. In order to increase the appetite of patients, we should often change the varieties of dishes, and pay attention to the color and fragrance of dishes.

Supplement protein during chemotherapy, eat more high protein food, such as fish, lean meat, milk, chicken, red jujube, it can prevent chemotherapy-induced decline of white blood cells, platelets and immunity.

matters needing attention

Normal people should take about 2000 ml of water every day, not to mention the patients after chemotherapy, they should drink more water, so as to excrete toxins in the body through urine. In fact, the seemingly ordinary substances play the roles of digesting food, absorbing nutrition, removing waste, regulating body temperature, moistening skin, accelerating metabolism, etc. we can see the importance of drinking water.