What are the late symptoms of lung cancer?

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For patients with advanced lung cancer, family members are most worried about the death of patients. Speaking of advanced lung cancer, many people may feel terrible, seriously endangering the lives of patients. What are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? Let's talk about the common symptoms of advanced lung cancer.

What are the late symptoms of lung cancer?

1. Prodromal stage: patients will have mild personality changes and behavioral abnormalities, such as excited or indifferent, less speech, disheveled clothes or defecation at any time; The response was accurate, but the speech was unclear and slow. When the patient's fingers are separated, the hand is inclined to the outside, and the metacarpophalangeal joint, wrist joint, and even elbow and shoulder joint shake irregularly. Shaking hands with the patient for one minute can feel the patient's limb shaking.

2. Pre coma: confusion of consciousness, sleep disorders, behavioral disorders. The symptoms of the previous stage worsened. Poor orientation and understanding, confused concepts of time, place and people, unclear speech, dysgraphia and abnormal behavior are also common. Most of them have wrong sleep time, sleep during the day and wake up at night, even hallucination, fear and manic, which are regarded as general psychosis. At this stage, patients have obvious neurological signs, such as hyperreflexia of tendon, increased muscle tension, ankle twinning, etc. Flapping wing tremor was present at this stage.

3. Lethargy period: it is mainly characterized by long-term lethargy and mental disorder. Various neurological signs continue or worsen. Most of the time, the patient is in a state of lethargy, but can wake up. When awake, you can respond to dialogue, but you will have unconsciousness and hallucinations, muscle tension will decrease, and your limbs often have resistance to passive movement.

matters needing attention

(1) Nursing patients with advanced lung cancer should first pay attention to keeping the indoor environment comfortable and the bed clean and tidy, especially for patients with advanced lung cancer who can't take care of themselves. They must turn over regularly, scrub with warm water, and massage the pressure parts often to prevent the occurrence of bedsore. (2) reasonable diet is also an important part of nursing care for patients with advanced lung cancer. Patients with advanced lung cancer have large consumption and weak constitution, so special attention should be paid to timely supplement nutrition. Diet should be rich and varied, light and high nutrition as the principle, patients can be instructed to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, avoid spicy and stimulating food, while ensuring the supply of nutrition to enhance the immune disease resistance of patients. (3) pay attention to the mental and psychological nursing of the patients with advanced lung cancer, communicate with the patients at any time, listen to the patients patiently, and make the patients feel the warmth of their relatives. Give patients more spiritual and psychological comfort, eliminate their fear of death, how to care after lung cancer surgery, establish the self-confidence of patients with advanced lung cancer to overcome the disease. We should constantly encourage patients to actively participate in some social activities within our ability.