Ulcerous formations in the small intestine are often accompanied by internal bleeding and perforation of the wall of the digestive canal. In order to avoid these serious consequences, already at the first symptoms of the ailment, gastroenterologists prescribe to their patients a therapeutic diet. What foods with duodenal ulcer should be present on the patient's table?
Basic rules for nutrition of peanuts
The diet is balanced and includes all the products necessary for the recovery of the body, rich in micro- and macroelements, vitamins and mineral salts. In terms of quantity, the diet is divided into:
- carbohydrates - 450 grams;
- fats - 150 grams;
- proteins - 150 grams;
The optimum caloric value eaten for a day of food with a duodenal ulcer is 2500-3500 kilocalories. This figure depends on many individual characteristics: age, sex, nature of work, concomitant diseases - therefore only the doctor can deduce the exact energy value of the diet.
Dishes in the diet of the patient should spare the gastrointestinal tract as much as possible. Therefore, from the diet of a peanut, food that can in one way or another negatively affect the esophagus mucosa is excluded. Such products include:
- Food is rough, not crushed, mechanically irritating the intestinal wall;
- Acute, oily or very salty( normal - up to 10 grams per day) food that causes chemical damage to the mucosa;
- Cold and hot dishes that can additionally thermally injure the damaged esophageal mucosa;
Therapeutic diet "Table № 1"
Proper nutrition will help to remove acute pain syndrome with duodenal ulcer and will promote early overgrowth of defects. To do this, the diet includes food steamed, steamed, mashed or crushed dishes. Their use contributes to a reduction in the littering, facilitates the process of digestion and absorption of nutrients into the blood.
What products does the patient's menu consist of and what does he have to give up?
- Fresh bread with duodenal ulcer is contraindicated. Soft pastry contains active elements of fermentation, which, if ingested on the mucosa of the small intestine, damage it again. Therefore, gastroenterologists only allow their patients to crackers and bread of rough grinding yesterday's freshness. It is better impregnated with gastric and intestinal juice, does not contain organic acids and does not cause fermentation.
- Meat with a low fat content, without tendons and skin, chicken, liver and non-fat types of ham are a part of the daily diet of the patient, being the main products that supply animal protein. From food, canned, high-fat meat is excluded, as they are difficult to digest and irritate the walls of the intestine.
- Milk and sour-milk products, such as cream, whole milk, low-fat sour cream and curdled milk, have medicinal properties and are a source of calcium. Acute and highly salted cheese varieties and lactic acidic dishes cause excessive secretion of intestinal enzymes, which is contraindicated in peptic ulcer disease.
- Eggs are allowed in quantities of up to two pieces, steamed or boiled. From food, it is excluded fried, boiled egg and raw protein.
- Porridges cooked on milk and water basis, from manna, oat, rice and buckwheat groats, stimulate intestinal peristalsis, envelop the esophagus without irritating its walls. Not recommended heavy varieties - legumes, pearl barley and wheat porridge.
- Sweets are allowed honey, pastille, marshmallow, milk jelly and milk-based creams. Chocolate in duodenal ulcer during the period of acute categorically prohibited, because this product is difficult to digest and irritates the already existing ulceration. In the period of remission it is permissible to include in the diet 50 grams of bitter chocolate. Varieties of this treat with nuts, raisins and caramel, as well as dairy and white varieties are prohibited.
- Young potatoes, carrots, zucchini, cauliflower and pumpkin, boiled or steamed, are foods that can diversify meals. But from salty, pickled and pickled vegetables( especially from mushrooms) will have to be abandoned.
- From drinks, peanuts prefer to drink slightly boiled teas with milk or lean cream, sweet juice, rose hips, cocoa with milk and a drink made from wheat bran. Refuse to have from kvass, any carbonated drinks, sour juice and a favorite drink of many - coffee.
- Popcorn, fried seeds, chips and nuts with duodenal ulcer belong to the category of rough, intractable food, which causes inhibition of digestion. However, walnuts in combination with flower honey, birch buds and valerian root are used in folk medicine as an effective medicinal infusion in the defeat of the stomach and small intestine.