"Longevity is torture for me!" In 2005, the 101-year-old literary figure Barkin died after 6 years of suffering in a hospital bed.
In 1999, Ba Jin was admitted to the hospital with a serious illness, and was entangled in hypertension, chronic bronchitis, malignant mesothelioma and other diseases, especially malignant mesothelioma, which is a malignant tumor, which is fatal and very torturous. After rescue, although Ba Jin saved his life, the quality of life was greatly reduced, and he once had to eat through the gastric tube, insert a tube from the nose into the stomach, eat six times a day, and change the gastric tube every two months.
People who have taken care of cancer patients know how painful it is to insert the gastric tube, Ba Jin was also tortured by the gastric tube, every time the gastric tube was choked, the face was choked red, and what was even more uncomfortable was that because of the long-term gastric tube, Ba Jin's mouth could not be closed, the chin was dislocated, and later the trachea was cut open and connected to the ventilator to maintain life.
The family and leaders wanted Barkin to live at all costs, but Barkin only wanted to leave peacefully, die with dignity, and after 6 years in a hospital bed, Barkin finally died.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > How do cancer cells take a person's life? </h1>
As we all know, people with cancer do not die "directly", but "slowly" die in torment, Dr. Hu Yang, chief physician of the Respiratory Department of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital affiliated to Tongji University, said that many cancer patients are very painful after diagnosing cancer, and at the same time, the families of cancer patients are also very painful, because cancer is both "making money" and "killing people"!
1. Unlimited proliferation, seizure of nutrients, organ failure
The reason why cancer cells are terrible is that it will proliferate indefinitely, and cancer cells will "ruthlessly" seize the nutrients of the body, as cancer continues to develop, the nutrients consumed by cancer cells will gradually increase, but with the aggravation of the disease, patients will have a loss of appetite, cancer patients who cannot supply nutrients will gradually lose weight, and eventually there will be a cachexia physique, and the body's resistance will decline sharply, eventually leading to organ failure.
2. Metastasis and invasion of other organs, causing organ failure
In addition to the infinite proliferation of cancer cells, in the middle and late stages of cancer, metastasis, invasion of other organs, resulting in multi-organ failure, and eventual death, for example, liver cancer lung metastasis, resulting in lung function is affected, resulting in respiratory failure.
3. Infection occurs and is difficult to control
In fact, infection is one of the causes of death of cancer patients, when cancer cells continue to invade the various organs of the body, the patient's immunity will gradually decline, resulting in some infections that ordinary people rarely appear, and it is difficult to control, so once the infection occurs, it is often fatal to cancer patients!
4. Hit the patient's psychology and make people depressed
Although there are many cancers that can be well controlled in the early stage if they are treated regularly, there are still many people who "talk about cancer discoloration", and once cancer is diagnosed, they think that they are terminally ill and cannot live, and negative emotions also accelerate the death of cancer patients.
Of course, it is undeniable that everyone will face the day of death, but most people do not know what symptoms cancer patients will have before they die.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" >2. What are the symptoms of cancer patients before dying? </h1>
In fact, cancer patients will go through three stages of near-death, clinical death and biological death, and finally will show near-death symptoms, that is, the following five symptoms.
1, can not eat, dehydration
Cancer patients will change their diet before death, mainly because of the continuous failure of the body organs, resulting in decreased swallowing function, patients will have decreased appetite, anorexia, can not eat, etc., at the same time, cancer patients because they no longer eat and drink, but also will appear terminal dehydration symptoms.
2. Incontinence
Excretion in cancer patients also changes before death, mainly because blood circulation in dying patients becomes slower, resulting in continuous kidney failure, which eventually leads to urinary retention or urinary incontinence, and cancer patients can also cause urinary and urinary incontinence due to relaxation of the and bladder sphincters.
3. Cold skin
After cancer patients enter the near-death phase, the skin of the body will gradually become cold due to malnutrition, spasm of peripheral blood vessels, slower blood circulation, etc., and even bruised spots will appear, and the lips and nails will become blue-purple or gray-white.
4. Dying throat sound
Because cancer patients are unable to discharge or swallow the oral secretions that accumulate in the throat during the near-death period, and the secretions in the lungs will continue to increase, the patient will make a pronounced "rattling sound" when exhaling, that is, a near-death throat sound.
5. Pain
Cancer patients experience pain changes before dying, and clinical studies have found that more than three-quarters of dying patients need to use strong opioid analgesics to relieve pain, but most patients will have repeated pain, and it is worth mentioning that patients with loss of consciousness will still experience pain.
It can be seen that cancer patients are very uncomfortable before dying, but everyone has different views on whether cancer patients should be rescued at the end of the terminal stage.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > third, the cancer reaches the end of the stage, do you want to rescue at any cost? </h1>
Gu Jin, chief physician of Peking University Cancer Hospital, said that in fact, today's medical development is still limited, and we need to acknowledge that some diseases cannot be cured through existing medical means, such as terminal cancer, and it is actually a wise behavior to let patients reduce pain and die with dignity. However, out of ethics and sensibility, most family members often choose to continue treatment, but the results are not satisfactory, rescue at any cost, waste medical resources at the same time, family members suffer patients also suffer.
Therefore, cancer should be people-oriented in the advanced stage, that is, do not overtreat, and do not completely abandon treatment, because when the cancer is advanced, the patient will suffer greatly and need to alleviate the symptoms through appropriate treatment. In addition, for cancer, we must go to the hospital for formal and professional treatment, and do not blindly believe in "folk remedies" and "secret recipes". #健康明星计划 #
Resources:
[1] How does cancer take human life? 》. Beijing Society for the Prevention and Treatment of Breast Disease.2019-09-20
[2] How to judge that a patient is on the verge of death?" 》. Hospice Of Fujian Provincial Hospital.2018-10-22
[3] "Is it really reasonable that we spent so much energy "to rescue and treat at any cost"|? Medical Pulse.2019-07-10
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