What should colitis eat

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For patients with acute enteritis, in addition to pay attention to rest and active treatment for the cause, we should adopt the principles of easy digestion, less stimulation, moderate temperature and heat, rich nutrition, less food and more meals and timely water supplement.

What should colitis eat

Early stage of enteritis: it is the stage of acute intestinal congestion, edema, inflammation and exudation. At this time, the intestinal peristalsis is active or in a spasmodic state, and its digestion and absorption function is relatively weak. Therefore, within 8-12 hours after the onset of the disease, patients can eat liquid food, such as rice porridge, lotus root powder, fine noodles, etc. If diarrhea is serious or sweating is more, the patient should drink more soup, such as rice juice, vegetable soup, fruit juice, light salt boiled water, etc. to supplement the lack of water, vitamins and electrolytes in the body.

Enteritis improvement period: can give patients to eat some easy to digest and nutrient rich liquid or semi liquid food, such as rice porridge, noodles and so on. It is advisable to eat less and more meals, 4-5 times a day. It should be noted that it is not suitable to drink milk and eat a lot of sugar at this time, because these foods are easy to ferment and produce a lot of gas after entering the intestinal tract, causing abdominal distension and abdominal pain, increasing the suffering of patients.

Enteritis recovery period: due to the changes of gastrointestinal tract, especially intestinal pathophysiology, the intestinal tract is very sensitive to food at this time. Therefore, special attention should be paid to diet control. It is advisable to eat light, soft, rotten and warm food on diet, and avoid eating fat, fried, raw, cold and hard food and multi fiber food, such as celery, etc. After 2-3 days of recovery, you can eat according to the normal diet.

matters needing attention

Diet treatment is very necessary to control diarrhea and improve nutrition. It is generally advocated that diet should be as close to normal as possible, and keep high sugar, high protein, high vitamin, low fat and low residue (three high and two low) diet. Milk and dairy products should be avoided, because it may induce the disease in some patients, and some patients may have lactase deficiency. Essential diet is very effective for patients with malnutrition and can be used before surgery. Critically ill patients had better be fasting temporarily and given nutrition by vein to facilitate intestinal rest. Patients with severe malnutrition can use total parenteral high energy nutrition for a short time (2-3 weeks) before and after operation. Vitamin and iron supplement should be considered at any time. Severe anemia and severe patients should be given blood transfusion. Antidiarrheal agents and anticholinergic drugs should be avoided to prevent toxic megacolon.