Cancer Clinical symptoms and psychological reactions (1) pain: pain is a common symptom of cancer. The severity of pain depends on the tumor location and invasion of normal tissues and scope of oppression. Expansion of the nerve endings or the mass of neural stem by stimulation or repression, there may be local irritation, throbbing, burning pain, pain or radiating pain, often unbearable, particularly at night becomes more apparent. Pain can increase the fear and anxiety in patients, but also affect appetite and sleep, affecting their mental state. Cancer patients in severe physical pain is rare, most of the fear of pain. Some patients complain of pain because of fear of loneliness, but in fact hope that other people care about, and some because of too much attention to physical symptoms and reduce the pain threshold. Que big and will hurt relations between mind, so patients in determining the nature and degree of pain must also consider the analysis of the patient mentality.
(2) the appetite dropped: Most cancer patients have loss of appetite. System of the body due to tumor invasion of the physiological and biochemical changes, especially the more obvious changes in the digestive system, the appetite of cancer patients in this early stage of involvement. The appetite for sex change is the first non-ignorant to eat after eating discomfort, decreased appetite, food is a tasteless joke involved the performance of the system, discomfort, is the stomach and intestines and the secretion of digestive juice. Subsequent loss of appetite more and more obvious, to sharp drop in level.
Loss of appetite in cancer patients until the sharp decline, and patients the fear of cancer caused by anxiety and depression. Some patients with weak, hear my cancer as being a serious blow, as anxiety and depression, a rather sluggish, depressed, do not think Tea Food, and with the changes in the course of time become more and more severe disease . Because heart patients caused the burden of loss of appetite, the language should be to enlighten, encourage patients to strengthen food and nutrition, and enhance the confidence to overcome the disease.
Cancer Clinical symptoms and psychological reactions (3) weight loss, fatigue: This is an important cancer patients clinical manifestations. The reason the one hand, nutritional intake of bleeding disorders or concurrent infection and disease on the body of the growing consumption of some of the other party to the diagnosis of malignancy was suppressed under the weight of income. Depression weak all day and not eating, listlessness, and lead to weight loss, lack of light, loss and courage to fight disease and perseverance.
(4) fever: Fever is one of the most common symptoms of malignant tumors. Some tumors produce toxic substances, foreign body hormone, tumor necrosis, perforation and infection are fever Department of reasons, but people often easy to overlook the psychological causes of fever.
As the patient had heavy psychological burden, emotional over-stress, fear can not be admitted after the cancer, causing fatigue, dizziness, poor appetite, insomnia, systemic failure, resistance to the attached, the autonomic nervous system dysfunction, loss of balance in the central regulation of body temperature caused by fever, body temperature usually 37.5 C or so. The body temperature influenced by emotional factors. Mental stress and temperature can be raised after the event, rest and calm can be restored after the temperature is commanded, that patients receiving psychological treatment is better.
After the psychological status of patients with fever is more complex. Cancer early, unexplained fever is an important signal. Patients are often mistaken for influenza, small problems like cough, is not necessary to the hospital, just to eat some cold drug withdrawal, the problem can be solved, due to psychological paralysis and delay early diagnosis and treatment of tumors found in the heat of the same mass of pain, Patients will be imminent doom, a sign of serious illness. Sustained high fever, affects the central nervous system function, coma, speech broadcast and other mental jump to panic symptoms, should be taken to fever, sedation, the frightened and other emergency facilities. Cancer patients often low heat for a long while thinking of putting a heavy burden, one get the thermometer to measure body temperature afraid to palpitation, tremor, cold sweats. Postoperative rehabilitation process, patients with a re-transfer of heat and fear of relapse. If this is just a general review after the fever, nothing to do with cancer, patients often expressed doubts that the doctors in the trick himself, not only for doctors and nurses, but there are not other people around a sense of Qian.
Causes of fever in cancer patients have cancer, the factors themselves, but also, like normal people suffering from other diseases, such as bacteria, viruses, infections caused by fever. In such cases we must first identify the reasons, do not rule that advanced cancer can not give up the necessary treatment.
Cancer Clinical symptoms and psychological reactions (5) Bleeding: blood accounts for 7% of human body weight – 8%. Blood is a symbol of life. Bleeding, life is no guarantee, especially in understanding cancer patients. Of course, some patients with lower educational level, when the body is bleeding somewhere, thought it was cancer in the discharge gas, gas from the blood and go, cancer is expected to recover, this idea is not correct.
"Canon" is mentioned: blood "to wing limbs, internal organs within the note," "liver blood are able to view, enough blood are able to step palm blood are able to grasp, that can be taken by the blood." Blood of normal human life activities of great significance. Decreased blood loss, blood pressure, blood flow velocity decreased, the normal cells in the unit of time can not get enough blood, resulting in inadequate supply of oxygen and nutrients, metabolites excreted poor, dysfunctional all aspects of the body, normal thinking function also severely affected.
Bleeding is common in patients with cancer and serious complication of bed rest to help the town of bleeding patients, elimination of tension, with bleeding, blood transfusion is born first, like the sun suddenly bleeding due to a decrease in circulating blood volume of the heart, brain and other vital organs caused by Thinking disturbance of consciousness. Cancer patients have to bear the threat of cancer and blood loss, panic is understandable. Cancer patients with massive hemoptysis due to the fear out. Want to reduce the amount of bleeding through the breath, the result will cause blood congestion, increased vascular two forces, resulting in larger amounts of bleeding, or suffocation death. Bleeding patients should be told not to panic, do not hold your breath ", which is very important. Cancer hemorrhage hope doctors, nurses work to themselves as the center, requiring family members, friends and relatives accompany the bedside human. They asked doctors to stop bleeding as soon as possible, hoping blood transfusion, fluid replacement to compensate for the loss of blood caused by the absence of the body and the psychological sense. purposes, such as fail to generate tension, impatience and other psychological, medical personnel, family members must be good at understanding, and jointly improve patient thought, work, save patients.