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Is sleepiness normal after chemotherapy?

BY Iris Wheatley 2020-07-24

  Is drowsiness normal after chemotherapy? With cancer, active treatment is the key. The current common methods of treating cancer are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. We all know that chemotherapy is very sensitive to certain types of cancer and the effect is also very significant , But its toxic and side effects are very large, so everyone should take good care of it, so is sleepiness normal after chemotherapy? Originoo_42964_21682835_l.jpg

  Drowsiness after chemotherapy varies from person to person, and everyone’s tolerance to chemotherapy is different. People with low tolerance will experience side effects such as general fatigue, physical weakness, and mental depression after chemotherapy, resulting in drowsiness. Drowsiness after chemotherapy is a normal phenomenon. Most patients will improve for a period of time after the completion of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Some patients have serious symptoms that require adjuvant therapy. To improve sleep problems after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, we can strengthen nursing and treatment from the aspects of diet and adjuvant therapy.

   Due to the low selectivity of chemotherapeutic drugs, it will inevitably damage normal cells of the human body while killing cancer cells, resulting in adverse drug reactions. Therefore, when receiving chemotherapy drugs, on the one hand, we hope to achieve the best anti-tumor effect, on the other hand, we must also pay attention to the prevention and identification of adverse reactions of chemotherapy drugs.

  Chemotherapy drugs will suppress bone marrow, resulting in leukopenia. Therefore, the diet should start with two aspects of strengthening the spleen, nourishing qi and nourishing blood and filling the kidney. You can eat more yam, lentils, longan meat, jujube, peanut kernels, black fungus, pig liver, glutinous rice turtle, pork bone, Beef bones, sheep bones and other foods.

  In the care of chemotherapy patients, the true condition of cancer patients should be kept moderately secret, so as not to make the patients too nervous and fearful. Patients who already know they have cancer should be given scientific explanation, comfort and encouragement so that the patients can treat the disease correctly. Analyze the causes of negatively disappointed patients, make good psychological comfort, make good mental and life guidance, comprehensively treat the importance of cancer treatment, use the will and emotions to play an active role in curing diseases, and exclude the psychologically unfavorable treatment ,social factors.

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