Dietary considerations before surgery for cervical precancerous lesions

Cervical precancerous lesions are a type of gynecological genital malignant tumor. If not treated in time, it will be life-threatening. Surgery is the main treatment now, and diet is the most critical to help treatment. If the diet is reasonable, it can help treatment, but if it is unreasonable, it will affect treatment. So what should patients with cervical precancerous lesions pay attention to in their diet? Pay attention to the following points:

1. Early cervical precancerous lesions generally have little effect on digestive tract function. The main purpose is to enhance the patient's disease resistance and improve the immune function. Nutrients should be supplemented as much as possible. Protein, sugar, fat, vitamins, etc. can be reasonably consumed. When the patient has heavy vaginal bleeding, some blood-tonifying, hemostatic, and anti-cancer foods should be taken, such as lotus root, coix seed, hawthorn, black fungus, and ebony. When the patient's leucorrhea is watery, it is advisable to take nourishing foods, such as turtle, pigeon eggs, and chicken. When the patient's leucorrhea is thick and smelly, it is advisable to eat light and damp-removing foods, such as coix seed, red bean, and white imperata root.

2. In the late stage of cervical precancerous lesions, high-protein, high-calorie foods should be chosen, such as milk, eggs, beef, turtle, red beans, mung beans, fresh lotus root, spinach, winter melon, apples, etc.

3. After the operation, the diet should be adjusted to replenish qi and blood, and produce essence and replenish essence, such as yam, longan, mulberry, wolfberry, pork liver, turtle, sesame, donkey skin glue, etc.

4. During radiotherapy, dietary adjustments should focus on nourishing blood and yin. Beef, pork liver, lotus root, fungus, spinach, celery, pomegranate, water chestnut, etc. can be eaten. If radiation cystitis and radiation proctitis occur due to radiotherapy, meals that clear heat and dampness, nourish yin and detoxify should be given, such as watermelon, coix seed, red bean, water chestnut, lotus root, spinach, etc.

5. During chemotherapy, the diet should focus on strengthening the spleen and kidney. You can use yam powder, barley porridge, animal liver, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, turtle, fungus, wolfberry, lotus root, banana, etc. When gastrointestinal reactions, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite occur, you should adjust your diet to strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as sugarcane juice, ginger juice, black plum, banana, kumquat, etc.

6. Dietary taboos

(1) Precancerous lesions of the cervix are caused by stagnation of qi and blood, condensation of phlegm and dampness, and accumulation of toxic heat. Avoid eating foods that are greasy, sweet, spicy, fried, or other foods that can generate dampness, phlegm, dryness, and heat, and that can easily cause bleeding.

(2) When the patient's leucorrhea is watery, he/she should avoid eating raw and cold food, fruits, cold food, and hard and difficult-to-digest food; when the leucorrhea is thick and has a foul odor, he/she should avoid eating greasy food.