It is an issue that is the most emphasized in the world and in our country, which may cause confusion for patients and their relatives, and sometimes delay the most important treatment for their lives. Cancer patients, after the diagnosis of cancer, expect a diet list from the physician in order not to get cancer again or to recover urgently, to strengthen the defense system, and they are disappointed when such a list is not given. Under the misguidance of some private organizations and individuals marketing alternative medicine products in the patient and his family; Patients expect doctors to suggest some herbs and write down food and food ratios. Studies conducted to date have shown that special supplements to be made for nutrition after the diagnosis of cancer are only valid if the patient’s appetite decreases, he cannot get enough nutrition and loses weight. Apart from this, the “nutrition model that is mainly based on vegetables and fruits and increases the ratio of white meat, poor in red meat”, which is recommended to all individuals, is sufficient for many cancer patients who are in good general condition and can be fed. However, in the cases mentioned above, in cases such as weight loss, inability to take food by mouth, mouth sores, prolonged diarrhea, long-lasting nausea, vomiting, vitamin deficiency due to treatment or disease, the patient is given intravenous or oral supplementation with special foods and vitamins. should be done.
Patients with lung cancer should avoid overeating and salty foods, especially during their treatment, and should be careful about the appetite-increasing, weight and edema-forming effects of cortisone, which is used to reduce allergic side effects before treatment. During this period, high-calorie foods such as honey and molasses, consumed in order not to be sluggish and weak, can cause unwanted and extremely difficult weight gain in patients.
The use of vitamins, which have been popular in the past twenty years, has found an intense use area with the assumption that “it will keep us young, make our skin smooth, protect us from side effects during cancer treatments” with their antioxidant properties. However, as a result of extensive studies conducted in the last 10 years, it has been determined that unnecessary vitamins and vitamins used without doctor’s advice do more harm than good to our body, and even cause an increase in some types of cancer. Thereupon, alternative medicine markets and marketers in the world and in our country have turned their targets to herbal products. However, the undesirable interactions of these seemingly natural products, especially with chemotherapy and other medical treatments, have left many patients and the physician responsible for the treatment in a difficult situation. It has been accepted that the use of plants and herbal products, which are claimed to be beneficial with extremely insufficient data, can harm patients and should never be applied without the knowledge of the doctor.
There is a proven benefit of using 0.5-1mg oral ginger for nausea and vomiting in the treatment of both lung cancer and all other cancers, and it is a herbal product that has managed to enter the oncology literature as scientific evidence.
