Key points of diet nursing after esophageal cancer operation

Surgery is one of the main methods for the treatment of esophageal cancer. Patients after surgery due to esophageal injury, often cause intake disorders affecting food absorption, so postoperative diet is particularly important for esophageal cancer patients rehabilitation. Normal, according to esophageal cancer patients postoperative diet recovery status, the entire rehabilitation process can be divided into three stages for targeted care. The first stage: Fasting, generally in 1-7 days after surgery, within a week after surgery is the most difficult period of recovery, patients need to fast, that is, do not eat or drink, mainly rely on parenteral nutrition combined with enteral nutrition, until parenteral nutrition gradually transformed into enteral. The second stage: liquid or semi-liquid stage, generally 7 days to a month after surgery, this time, still nasogastric enteral nutrition, oral liquid food supplement, parenteral nutrition can gradually stop. Under normal circumstances, you can give a small amount of boiled water first, gradually increase to 30~50 ml, if there is no obvious discomfort, you can give rice soup, egg soup, fresh milk, fish soup and all kinds of poultry soup, 100~200 ml each time, 5~7 times a day. The third stage is called ordinary diet stage, generally after one month after surgery, this period of patients, diet basically returned to normal, but here the general food, does not mean normal general food, patients should choose easy digestion, nutrition, and to adhere to eat less and eat more, chew slowly, prevent irritating diet, such as sweets, spicy stimulating diet, fried diet, too cold or too hot diet.