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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

How to arrange diet of breast cancer?

Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy of women, according to statistics, the incidence of various malignant tumors account for 7-10% of the body. It's often hereditary disease, and between 40-60 years of age, before and after menopause women have a higher prevalence. Only about 1-2% of breast patients were male. Usually occurs in malignant breast epithelial tissue. Affect women's physical and mental health is a serious and even life-threatening one of the most common malignancy, male breast cancer is rare.
Points after breast cancer diet
Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy, made in China each year about 13,500 new cases of breast cancer. Scientific, timely and comprehensive treatment of reasonable rehabilitation of the patient plays a vital role, but should also focus on the family care and nursed back to health, the saying goes "two-thirds rule, seven support," home care patients and their families to understand the meaning of and the importance of patients to be fully mobilize internal and external positive factors conducive to disease recovery.
We recommend:
1. Time, and quantity consumed, not overeating, the partial eclipse, a planned intake of nutrients and calories;
2. Rice should not be too refined, appropriate eat more whole grains, corn, beans and other grains, high fiber diet is beneficial to patients with breast cancer;
3. Low-fat diet, eat lean meat, eggs, yogurt, eat salted, smoked, roasted, burned the coking food;
4. Eat foods rich in vitamins A, C vegetables and fruits, such as fresh kiwi fruit, carrot, etc.;
5. Eat food with inhibition of cancer cells, such as cabbage, shepherd's purse, mushrooms, etc., eat dried foods, such as sesame, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, they are rich in vitamins and trace elements, fiber, protein and non- saturated fatty acids;
6. Breast cancer patients with radiotherapy and chemotherapy during and after the period of time, taste and appetite may be some decline. At this point, the patient's diet should be nutrient-rich premise, in color, smell, taste and down some effort to eat light and easily digestible food for the principle. In the period of neutropenia, to prevent the occurrence of various infections, family members of patients should be urged to avoid contact with too many people and less to public places.
7. For most cancer patients, diet is a universal problem. In particular, circulating in society: "Can not eat chicken," "can not eat eggs," "can not extend their" and other phrases, making the patients and their families shrink from a loss. Proper food selection is good for the prevention of breast cancer. These foods include kelp, sea cucumber and other seafood, as can be extracted from a variety of seafood in the anti-tumor activity of substances; beans food, five black (black beans, black date, black rice, black fungus, black sesame seeds) food and vegetables, fruit, etc. , can add the necessary vitamins, electrolytes. Of course, these foods can be from person to person, time, due to adopt, without demanding the same.
In short, the daily protein requirements in patients with higher than normal, not too much fat, carbohydrates should be a combination of coarse and fine grain, rich and varied types of food to eat more fresh vegetables and fruit, nutrition should be balanced, too many are too few undesirable weight gain of not more than 5kg; taboos easily lead to a single nutrient, food monotonous, loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition affects health.
How to arrange breast cancer diet?
1. Diet should be moderate, but the volume
Over-nutrition and obesity on breast cancer occurrence and development have adverse effects. Therefore, after treatment in breast cancer patients during long-term life, should be to ensure the nutritional needs of the premise, to do frequent meals, good food intake control.
2. Attention to nutrition, with a reasonable
The diet is a scientific and rational cancer patients in particular should be noted. Balanced diet, diversity, not a partial eclipse, do not eat, with meat and vegetables, with the thickness. Multi cooking steaming, boiling, stewing, try to eat less fried food.
3. Breast cancer surgery, you can eat nourishing Qi, Qi Sanjie food, can help consolidate the curative effect is conducive to rehabilitation after surgery.
4. A reasonable diet
Breast cancer patients to manage their mouth, there are many things that eat a lot of side effects of the disease, and therefore special attention. After not eat raw onion and garlic, pumpkin, wine, and Xin Wen, fry, greasy, and so help the fire phlegm Hunxing spleen shipped food hamper.
Breast cancer is one of the better treatment of cancer, most patients with long-term survival. General of the recuperation of patients after treatment and follow-up after a certain period, can return to work to restore the preoperative life. During recuperation at home, to the spirit of optimism to overcome illness, and daily living arrangements went very smoothly and on time each month for breast self-examination.
Regular follow-up, review (in breast cancer patients after treatment, should be life-long follow-up to the early detection of recurrence and metastasis lesion or lesions, to do early detection and early treatment.) Should be the law of life, personal time, with appropriate outdoor activities and exercise, such as exercises, tai chi, as well as the necessary cultural and recreational activities. When your feeling down or thinking too awkward when you have any concerns and, to tell their closest or your doctor.
Tell them your own feelings or heart pain, that came out more relaxed you will feel. In a sense, a point to reduce your pain to a point equal to increase the body's anti-cancer power.
Breast cancer patients after surgery, family members should function as soon as possible after the rehabilitation exercise, to help and supervise the patient limb edema, skin protection, do not scratch the break, manage to avoid the heavy limb edema. In addition, patients need lifelong follow-up of breast cancer, family members should assist. So? Answer whether a hospital or follow-up letter follow-up, family members should make every effort to assist with the completion. In addition to the treatment of patients is good, but can also provide a large number of breast cancer research information and data, is conducive to breast cancer prevention and control work.



Monday, June 13, 2011

Care of incision anti-infection after breast cancer surgery

Patients after surgery, due to hematoma, foreign body, the body's defenses are weakened and radiotherapy, chemotherapy and bone marrow immune suppression caused by the wound susceptible. In addition to the patients before surgery to improve immunity, application of appropriate antibiotics. Post-operative care is also very important.

1, after the operation to observe the vital signs of patients, especially in body temperature. If the patient body temperature, and wound pain, wound infection is prompt. Hyperthermia, physical cooling should prevent the excessive consumption of patients with physical fitness.

2, after surgery to keep the wound dry. If family members or patients found that the wound exudate or excessive bleeding, pollution dressing, dressing change should inform your doctor promptly to prevent wound infection.

3, if found in patients with chronic non-healing surgical incision, and infection, should be in a sterile condition to the hospital cut down treatment of the wound to remove foreign bodies within the wound. Promote the growth of granulation tissue, so that wound healing.

4, after the operation, should provide a favorable environment for patients, relatives and friends do not let too many visits to ensure patients have adequate rest and sleep, sedation can be applied when necessary. Also to avoid cross-infection.

5, to enhance the nutritional intake of patients after surgery. Increase the body's immune system, promote wound healing.




Moderate anxiety can prolong the life of breast cancer patients

Psychology from the University of Bordeaux, France conducted a laboratory psychologists 10 years of follow-up study to verify the anxiety, body image, social support and coping style on the survival time of breast cancer patients predict.

Study in January 1993 to January 1995 for the first time between the selection of patients diagnosed with breast cancer study, 75 patients eventually collect valid data. After 10 years of diagnosis, nearly half of the patients survived.

The results showed that none of the physiological factors (such as age, cancer stage, etc.) can predict the length of survival time.

In addition, the study also found that anxiety can predict a longer survival time. That is, compared with patients with less anxiety and anxiety in patients with breast cancer survive longer. This may be because the anxiety was the result of breast cancer patients are always trying to eliminate the negative impact, mobilizing all resources to improve their living conditions, ways to prevent cancer recurrence and metastasis. Moderate anxiety as to enable candidates to better test, as the anxiety that breast cancer patients become more healthy way of life, life becomes more dynamic, the longer survival time.




The care of breast cancer patients

Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy, made in China each year about 13,500 new cases of breast cancer. Scientific, timely and comprehensive treatment of reasonable rehabilitation of the patient plays a vital role, but should also focus on its home care and nursed back to health.

1, time, and quantity consumed, not overeating, the partial eclipse, a planned intake of nutrients and calories;

2, the rice should not be too refined, appropriate eat more whole grains, corn, beans and other grains, high fiber diet is beneficial to patients with breast cancer;

3, low-fat diet, eat lean meat, eggs, yogurt, eat salted, smoked, roasted, burned the coking food;

4, eat foods rich in vitamin A, C vegetables and fruits, such as fresh kiwi fruit, carrot, etc.;

5., Eat the food containing the inhibition of cancer cells, such as cabbage, shepherd's purse, mushrooms, etc., eat dried foods, such as sesame, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, they are rich in vitamins and trace elements, fiber, protein and unsaturated fatty acids;

6, breast cancer patients with radiotherapy and chemotherapy during and after the period of time, taste and appetite may be some decline. At this point, the patient's diet should be nutrient-rich premise, in color, smell, taste and down some effort to eat light and easily digestible food for the principle. In the period of neutropenia, to prevent the occurrence of various infections, family members of patients should be urged to avoid contact with too many people and less to public places.

7, for most cancer patients, diet is a universal problem. In particular, circulating in society: "Can not eat chicken," "can not eat eggs," "can not extend their" and other phrases, making the patients and their families shrink from a loss. Proper food selection is good for the prevention of breast cancer. These foods include kelp, sea cucumber and other seafood, as can be extracted from a variety of seafood in the anti-tumor activity of substances; such as legumes, five black (black beans, black date, black rice, black fungus, black sesame seeds) food and vegetables, fruit etc., can add the necessary vitamins, electrolytes. Of course, these foods can be from person to person, time, due to adopt, without demanding the same.

In short, the daily protein requirements in patients with higher than normal, not too much fat, carbohydrates should be a combination of coarse and fine grain, rich and varied types of food to eat more fresh vegetables and fruit, nutrition should be balanced, too many are too few undesirable weight gain of not more than 5kg; taboos easily lead to a single nutrient, food monotonous, loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition affects health.

Breast cancer is one of the better treatment of cancer, most patients with long-term survival. General of the recuperation of patients after treatment and follow-up after a certain period, can return to work to restore the preoperative life. Convalescence period at home, to the spirit of optimism to overcome illness, and daily living arrangements in an orderly manner, each time for breast self-examination monthly. Regular follow-up, review (in breast cancer patients after treatment, should be life-long follow-up to the early detection of recurrence and metastasis lesion or lesions, to do early detection and early treatment.) Should be the law of life, personal time, with appropriate outdoor activities and exercise, such as exercises, tai chi, as well as the necessary cultural and recreational activities. When your feeling down or thinking too awkward when you have any concerns and, to tell their closest or your doctor. Tell them your own feelings or heart pain, that came out more relaxed you will feel. In a sense, a point to reduce your pain to a point equal to increase the body's anti-cancer power.




Breast Cancer: Postoperative observation is very important

Follow-up time: The time of surgery as the starting month postoperative follow-up once every three months during the first year, second and third year follow-up once every six months, later followed up once a year, until a lifetime.
Follow-up clinic: follow-up data in order to ensure the integrity of the patient to (including foreign patients) in the follow-up time to the breast specialist out-patient follow-up. Follow-up include: Check surgical wound healing; supervision of postoperative chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other adjuvant therapy implementation; to check for recurrence or metastasis, and prompt treatment; check the opposite breast; new drugs, the efficacy of the new program evaluation. Absence of special circumstances, it is recommended to come to their own out-patient follow-up of patients, treatment should be accompanied with a family.
Follow-up letter: follow-up questionnaire in the form of letters usually ask the patient to postoperative adjuvant therapy situation, state of health in the hope that the families of the patient or the patient be restored as soon as possible after receipt of a letter, according to the time specified in the letter to come to follow-up. If special reasons can not come to follow-up, should be described in the letter. For ease of posting follow-up letter, hoping to patients prior to discharge to the medical staff to provide the most direct contact address and telephone number; follow-up if the address of the relocation, also hope to inform the call letter in time.
 



Sunday, June 12, 2011

How breast cancer patients have sex?

Sex life is the most basic physiological and psychological need of human beling. Harmony sex life between husband and wife, not only to deepen the couple's feelings, while Serenity character and enhance immune function, beneficial physical and mental health. But sex is a double-edged sword, in the beginning of the more ill and has not been restored to normal levels, the case of deep fatigue, frequent sex life is not healthy, but also can relapse.
For breast cancer patients, after the trauma of surgery and chemotherapy to stimulate, within six months after discharge compared physical weakness, is the body's recovery. During this period, should be the absolute prohibition of sexual life, in order to facilitate the rehabilitation of the body.
In the postoperative 1 - 3 years, should control and reduce the number of sexual life. If the constitution is better, the condition is relatively stable, moderately easy sex. But we know that sexual intercourse, do not be too excited, intense, but no more desire. In particular, to make contraception, because of pregnancy on the recurrence of breast cancer have a certain influence. Especially in patients with axillary lymph node metastasis of breast cancer, pregnancy can promote breast cancer recurrence and metastasis. In conclusion, breast cancer intercourse to be careful, we can not absolutely prohibited, and can not be arbitrary. Timely and appropriate, healthy, beneficial to recovery.



Breast Cancer: But life is continuing ...

Well as the daily routine can make himself feel the joy of life, enhance the body's resistance. Cancer is a complex disease, to achieve the best recovery can not rely on unilateral measures, comprehensive measures must be taken.
(1) to ensure ease of mind, this is the premise of rehabilitation, but also spiritual support to battle cancer. Ancient medicine have long pointed out that "the internal organs are heart shake." Known as the father of medicine Hippocrates said, well, foreign physician, "the mood is excellent doctor of their illness." Must be a correct understanding of cancer, the correct treatment of cancer, and establish the confidence to overcome the disease as soon as possible to eliminate fear, depression and other unhealthy emotions. Spirits, strong-willed, drugs can better play its role, its own immune system can work better. Also the fact that many cancer patients cured or improved in all talked about the important role of psychological factors.
(2) actively cooperate with the treatment. Patients still have to continue treatment in the rehabilitation stage, to understand the treatment options physicians take the initiative with a timely response to reflect the treatment, allowing physicians to grasp the changes in condition, treatment options and adjust the dose, received the best effect.
(3) to re-adjust the patterns of life. Regardless of the illness in patients with physical, mental, great changes have taken place, to re-establish patterns of life, to develop good habits.
(4) should be appropriate to enhance nutrition, which is the material basis for recovery.
(5) often adhere to the exercise. This is an important means of physical rehabilitation. According to their condition to select the appropriate exercise program, step by step, consistently, from passive to active, interesting change from the boring, and then make fun of exercise as the largest.
These five areas are closely linked, mutual influence and penetration, is to promote the rehabilitation of patients with the best effective measures.



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