Gastric Cancer Questions

1. Avoid spicy and sour foods, drinking hot liquids like tea, coffee and avoid oily, spicy food until the ulcers heal.
2. Drink plenty of fluids.
3. Regularly rinse your mouth out with warm, slightly salted water or baking soda.
4. Keep your mouth clean.
5. Apply ice to your canker sores by allowing ice chips to slowly dissolve over the sores
6. Apply toothpaste over the sores to treat them
7. Apply little honey onto the mouth ulcer or mix in a little turmeric to make a p...more

History of att default
chronic history of smoking
blood in cough, fever ,weight loss, loss of appetite
take hrct thorax
sputum culture.

Dear lybrate-user ji
ssa!
this condition needs some long term planning. Ayurveda along with some good supplements will help you in this condition. You are young and your recovery can be better.
Should you need a consultation, please come online and have a chat with me.
Thanks! Dr.

Give him khadiradi vati 2tb twice a day empty stomach regularly. But for proper diagnosis and prescription accordingly you need to consult with his reports and complete history.

1. By laparoscopy if you mean minimally invasive thoracic surgery. It is better.
2. Selecting procedure for surgery is all about customizing it for the type and extent of lung cancer and according to patient compliance.
3. Without knowing disease burden, its hard to select what's best for your patient.

1. Do saline gargles daily.
2. Whenever possible do steam inhalation also.
3. Cover your nose and mouth with hanky for at least 30 sec when you go in dusty areas also when you go in and out of ac. As our nose is the most sensitive part of our body, when there is temperature difference between two rooms or inside n outside, then if we not protect our nose, it gets affected.
4. Drink hot liquids --hot liquids relieve nasal congestion, prevent dehydration, and soothe the uncomfortably i...more

Dear lybrate-user
sorry to hear this. Pneumothorax is air in the lungs. It is not always critical. Depends on how severe it is. However, you mentioned that your father has been on the ventilator. Whether the situation is critical will also depend on how his reponse to ventilator has been. Speak freely to the consultant treating your father. All the best.

Hi dear lybrate-user, I went through your query and concerns with your colostomy.
You focus on the overall general condition improvement in view of the current chemo sessions.
As your colostomy is functioning ok, no need to hurry on surgical reversal, so as to avoid risking and compromising on your general condition
after that consult your aiims doctors so as to plan the colostostomy reversal at opportune time.
Do call back for any more query.
Welcome again to my Lybrate clin...more

Hello, Greetings from your Ayurveda Wellness Coach.
Generally, Ayurveda and Siddha medicines are helpful in palliative therapies and definitely they are helpful symptomatically. There are medicines that help in preventing further infections. You may consult me online, I can guide you further.

Reduce your carbohydrate intake. Walk 2-3 km/day.