Leukopenia is a condition that inevitably occurs after chemotherapy, and therefore we will consider how to raise leukocytes, the level of which in the blood unit has greatly decreased. The cause of leukopenia is the mechanism of action of antitumor drugs. Suppressing the division of cancer cells, they simultaneously detrimentally affect the healthy cells, in particular - the bone marrow, which is responsible for the hematopoietic function. White blood cells provide immunity to the body, and therefore, after chemotherapy, the number of white blood cells should be raised in every possible way, otherwise the slightest scratch or cold can lead to serious consequences.
Medication methods
In the fight against leukopenia, doctors use drugs of the group of granatocyte and neupogen, which are considered to be the most potent. Lifting the level of leukocytes after chemotherapy in a sparing regimen is provided by such drugs as Imunofal and Polyoxidonium. To the "golden middle" is Leikogen.
The doctor may prescribe Batilol, Leukogen, Cefaransin, Sodium Nucleinate, Chlorophylline Sodium, Pyridoxine, Methyluracil and other medications.
To restore white blood cells after chemotherapy, as some studies have shown, autohemoimmunotherapeutic procedures supplemented with recombinant interferon help. The method of introducing donor red blood cells treated with Essenciale (a so-called extracorporeal pharmacotherapy of leukopenia) proved to be well established.
Restorative diet
To increase leukocytes after chemotherapy, as a rule, it is possible due to a special diet. Patients should include in their diet products such as:
- vegetables, berries, fruits;
- broths from chicken, beef;
- buckwheat;
- red caviar, mussels and other seafood, fish;
- dairy products;
- permanent beet juice.
You can use a small amount of red wine. Of vegetables are especially useful beets, carrots, pumpkin, zucchini. When leukocytes have fallen after chemotherapy, products like honey and nuts are even more beneficial than usual, so they can not be avoided without recovery.
Oat broth to raise leukocytes
Eliminate the decrease in leukocytes that occurs after chemotherapy will help the oats - from it prepare a decoction according to the following recipe:
- Under running water, wash the oat flakes in amounts of 2 spoons.
- Then the raw material is poured into 450 ml of water and boiled for 15 minutes.
- The resulting broth from the oats to 100 ml at a time take three times a day and just before a meal!
After a month of such recovery, a break is made for 30 days, and if necessary, the treatment is renewed with oat broth.
Herbs for lifting leukocytes
No less useful in the recovery of leukocytes after chemotherapy is the clover, from which the infusion is prepared. On 2 spoons of dry raw material is taken 300 ml of water (cold). The drug is allowed to brew for 2 hours, after which a quarter of a glass of the drug can be drunk twice a day.
Such a sweet potato has wormwood effect, only the infusion from this plant is prepared in other proportions. On 2 spoons you need 3 glasses of water. Time of infusion - 4 h, and drink the drug should be 250 ml before meals and only once a day.
To raise white blood cells after chemotherapy, as the experience of many patients shows, the collection from:
- 40 g of dandelion roots;
- 10 g of currant leaves ;
- 10 g of roots are bought.
- Raw materials, carefully mixed, take in the amount of 1 spoon.
- Pour boiling water (1 cup) and boil for 10 minutes. Immediately remove from the heat of the broth is impossible - the infusion time is 20 minutes.
- Then it is filtered, filled with boiling water reduced volume and drink 15 to 20 minutes before a meal in three divided doses.