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Suggest Treatment For Stomach Cancer
My father had an stomach cancer operation before 3 months and after that he is going through chemotherpay every month as per the doctors instruction. Due to which my father is causing some problem like stomach pain,vomiting,loose motion,even he is not able to have food so could you please suggest us some medication for this.
Tue, 5 May 2015
Thanks for your question on HCM.
I can understand your father's situation and problem.
Chemotherapy drugs are very toxic to the body.
Along with cancer cells, It also damage and destroy normal body cells.
It also causes immunosuppression. So patient on chemotherapy is at high risk of infection.
So possibility of stomach infection causing stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhoea is high.
Better to start
1. Oral rehydration solution (ORS)
2. Start zinc and multivitamin tablet.
3. Start probiotic and antioxidant drugs.
4. Avoid outside, junk food. Avoid oily and spicy food.
5. Give him only freshly cooked, home made food.
6. He may need short course of antibiotics too.
Do all these for 1 week and if he still have the same complaints, then get done CT scan of abdomen to rule local recurrence of stomach cancer.
I can understand your father's situation and problem.
Chemotherapy drugs are very toxic to the body.
Along with cancer cells, It also damage and destroy normal body cells.
It also causes immunosuppression. So patient on chemotherapy is at high risk of infection.
So possibility of stomach infection causing stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhoea is high.
Better to start
1. Oral rehydration solution (ORS)
2. Start zinc and multivitamin tablet.
3. Start probiotic and antioxidant drugs.
4. Avoid outside, junk food. Avoid oily and spicy food.
5. Give him only freshly cooked, home made food.
6. He may need short course of antibiotics too.
Do all these for 1 week and if he still have the same complaints, then get done CT scan of abdomen to rule local recurrence of stomach cancer.
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