Diet, with the disease of pancreatitis, is appointed for a period of at least 1.5 months. This is due to the fact that the pancreas for a long time recovers from the attack.
It is necessary to eat nutritionally, that is, eat small portions at least 5-6 times a day. With this method of obtaining food, there will be a slight decrease in body weight. But after recovery, weight will return to normal.
It is useful during illness to reduce the amount of food containing carbohydrates or sugars. This list includes:
- flour dishes such as pasta or pastries;
- sweet dishes, including all desserts, sweets and honey.
In addition, when pancreatitis is not necessary to eat dishes that are capable of increasing the secretion of juices of the digestive system. This list includes:
- meat broths;
- vegetable decoctions.
It is also better to remove fatty foods from the diet.
In case a person suffers from severe pain, one should apply complete abstinence from eating. The curative hunger must be accompanied by the intake of water, but not cold and still. And also it is possible to drink unsweetened weak tea or broth of a dogrose.
Asking the question: what is useful for the pancreas, what kind of food is useful? - it is necessary to rely, first of all, on the well-being. If severe pain does not agonize a person suffering from pancreatitis, then you can eat food with high protein content. It can be boiled:
- fish;
- bird;
- beef.
Moreover, it is better to remove saturated broths, and boil the boiled meat well. You can also eat non-fat and low-fat cottage cheese.
Authorized products for pancreatitis
The list of approved products for the chronic course of pancreatic disease includes:
- bread( better sliced and dried);
- soups on vegetable or chicken broth, also with them you can eat vermicelli or cereals;
- meat dishes made from lean meat - meatballs, steamed chops or meat soufflé, mashed potatoes, rolls;
- fish - boiled or steamed( fried fish is undesirable even outside the period of deterioration);
- eggs - boiled or scrambled eggs should be confined;
- all dairy products( except very sweet) - cottage cheese, yoghurt, milk, cheese;
- fats in limited quantities - vegetable and animal oils;
- vegetables - in the form of mashed potatoes or boiled( beets, squash, carrots, pumpkin, potatoes), fried vegetables should be limited or excluded;
- pasta and cereals - in the form of cereals or soups( rice, oatmeal, semolina, buckwheat groats and all kinds of pasta are suitable);
- fruit - it's better to choose varieties that do not have a strong sweetness or acid( you can bake fruit);
- sweet dishes - compotes or jelly with low sugar content;
- drinks - loose tea, decoctions of herbs or rose hips( alcohol is under strict prohibition, and coffee can be drunk in pancreatitis in a very diluted form slightly sweetening).
What is there for chronic pancreatitis?
This exemplary menu for chronic pancreatic disease need not be strictly followed. You can change the places for breakfast or lunch. The amount of food must be correlated with the general state of health. If it's good, then you can eat a little bit more. It is allowed to add one more meal before bedtime. It will consist of a glass of unfermented sour milk or curdled milk.
Not very well tolerated in all stages of chronic pancreatitis:
- Products from whole milk. It can be like milk soups and cereals, and drinks with the addition of natural cow milk. This useful product can cause people suffering from pancreatitis people, both enhanced gas formation, and liquid stool.
- It is necessary to limit the consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits, since the juices of these plants stimulate the digestive tract and will not allow the inflamed spleen to be protected.
- As for popular Japanese cuisine, cooking sushi at home is perfectly acceptable. There are several restrictions: the fish for sushi should not be pickled, but boiled. The same applies to vegetables. The use of wasabi and soy sauce is strictly prohibited.
What should I eat for acute pancreatitis and exacerbations?
When exacerbations the first two or three days the patient is prescribed a complete famine. It is necessary to maintain the body through frequent warm drinking or droppers containing salts and glucose in small doses.
Starting from the third day, you can start eating food with a low calorie content, with no seasonings and spices, with acute pancreatitis. Basically it's soups. The menu can be followed without increasing the amount of food, replacing the products with similar ones.
From the third day:
- 1 meal. Porridge on water( semolina or rice) - 100g, baked apple - 100g, tea without sugar.
- 2 reception. Puree vegetable( potatoes or carrots) - 100 g, boiled chicken or fish - 100 g, broth of wild rose with 1 teaspoon of sugar.
- 3 reception. Broth from vegetables - 150g, boiled fish -40g, mashed potatoes( without butter and milk) - 150g.
- 4 meal intake. Degreased mashed curd - 100 grams, tea with 1 spoonful of sugar.
- 5 reception.1 cup of curdled milk or kefir.
Starting from 6-7 days, you can transfer the patient to an ordinary diet, which must be followed for 1.5-2 months.
The main rule of the aspiring person to recover is the desire to prepare dietary dishes on his own. If you need to eat cracker, then it should be dried yourself, and not bought in the store. The same rule applies to jellies or kissels. You can not prepare food for a patient with pancreatitis to a person simply by pouring boiled concentrates from sachets and opening cans, since all concentrates contain chemical additives that enhance the work of the digestive tract.