Diet after operation

As well as any disease, the period of postoperative intervention demands special approach and careful attitude to the patient. The same concerns also food eaten by it. All know that at abdominal pains salty and fried food is contraindicated whereas vitamins – biologically active components of any diet.

What has to be a diet after operation? It plays very important role, at the patient various fabrics and bodies are damaged at this time. Undoubtedly, operation is intended to save life to the patient, but also a stress for an organism it bears considerable. Therefore the diet after operation is designed to minimize damage caused to health to the patient.

What has to be a diet after operation?

The dietary menu of postoperative patients depends, first of all, on what body underwent an operative measure. So, for example, there are specially developed diets after appendicitis, removals of a gall bladder, heart operations and vessels, etc.

In each of these diets the structure of the prohibited and resolved products differs a little. So, for example, the diet after appendicitis consists in the use only of liquid food in the first few days after operation. And milk and firm products, even transformed to puree, are strictly forbidden.

That is possible that it is impossible for each patient makes the individual menu of a diet the attending physician, proceeding from indicators of his health and type of a disease. But the diet after operations combining the general rules of bystry and effective recovery and return to a normal way of life will be useful to all patients without exception.

General rules of a postoperative diet: that it is possible that it is impossible

• The first 12 hours after operation it is necessary to drink only water.
• It is necessary to begin meal with the pyureobrazny, semi-fluid dishes easy of the wiped soups, porridges on water, the fat-free natural yogurts, natural juice.
• It is necessary to enter very carefully into a diet new products – no more than two names a day.
• In the first two days after operation it is necessary to eat fractional portions not less than five times a day. The size of portions has to make no more than 200 grams. The doctor has to specify in what quantity it is authorized to use liquid. Preference should be given to juice, water, grass infusions, broth from a dogrose. It is not recommended to increase the daily volume of the consumed liquid not to cause developing of hypostases of fabrics.
• When the risk of development of various postoperative complications already passed, it is possible to carry out gradual transition to the corresponding medical diet (a medical table). For example, the diet after appendicitis or during a peptic ulcer of a stomach is a table 1.
• The rehabilitation period demands the sparing approach therefore after operation it is not necessary to include heavy products in a diet: nuts (in a large number), mushrooms, sunflower seeds (they have property to litter a stomach that significantly complicates digestion process), fat, fat meat, seafood, fish. From vegetables are prohibited: cabbage, corn and those vegetables which cause the increased gas generation. After intestines and stomach operations acid fruit and berries, and also a citrus are contraindicated.
• As a diet basis after operation it is possible to use various soups (lungs chicken, groat, vegetable, milk), porridges on milk (or in the presence of contraindications – on water). It is possible to use also bread in limited quantity, galetny cookies, all fermented milk products, it is a little butter, berries, fruit and vegetables. Various diseases, however, demand various culinary processing of products. Therefore it is necessary to consult with the attending physician in what look it is better to use fruit and vegetables (to cook, bake, crush or it is possible to use them in the raw).
• At any diets after operations alcohol, cocoa, chocolate in large numbers (the use of chocolate no more than 50 g a week is allowed), canned food, smoked and fried dishes, salty delicacies, and also any confectionery as a part of which there are artificial additives are contraindicated to the use of coffee.