Since enterocolitis is an intestinal disease, the general condition of digestion, and various intestinal functionality is disturbed. Therefore, with such a disease prescribed strict adherence to proper nutrition, which is also a fundamental treatment of pathology. So what can you eat with enterocolitis?
In the conditions of inpatient treatment of enterocolitis, the patient will be prescribed to follow diet according to diet No. 4 for the first week. It should be noted that such a diet for adults is used until the moment when acute manifestations disappear. Later the patient will have to follow the diet No. 4b. Observe this menu should be during the exacerbation for 4-8 weeks. Then you can follow the diet number 4b, which should be adhered to during exacerbation and remission.
The patient is strictly forbidden to eat vegetables and some fruits, both raw and in a boiled form. Also from nutrition at enterocolitis in adults are excluded nuts, legumes, raisins, milk, products made of buttery dough, spices, sorts of fatty fish and meat, carbonated drinks, beet juice.
It is recommended to include in the menu with enterocolitis: apples in baked or wiped form without peel, pears, jelly, curdled milk, apple juice, cherries, strawberries, mandarin, orange, which were diluted with boiled water in a ratio of 1: 1.
Nutrition for enterocolitis after discharge
Nutrition for a patient with enterocolitis, will be assigned to normalize the basic functionality of the small intestine, stimulate the recovery processes of the mucous membrane, provide physiological needs of the body with nutrients, if the digestive process is disrupted, and improve metabolism.
In the case of the onset of a period of exacerbation in adults, a diet is prescribed, the energy value of which should not exceed 3,500 kcal. The composition includes:
- Proteins - 120-140 g, at the rate of 1.5-1.8 g per 1 kg of body weight.
- Fats - 100-120 g.
- Carbohydrates - 300-350 g.
- Salt - 8-10 g.
. Food is carried on the order of 5-6 times a day. The amount of liquid in the diet is not limited. Curdled yogurt is especially useful.
Menu with enterocolitis in the acute stage
What can I eat during the period of exacerbation? In case of an acute exacerbation of enterocolitis in adults, a doctor prescribes the use of rice or oat broth, blueberry jelly, hot broth of wild rose or black currant.
Next, the diet will be expanded by limiting fats, especially animal origin, and carbohydrates, since they have the properties to enhance fermentation processes in the intestine.
Doctors recommend eating in a diet with enterocolitis stale bread, grated soup, low-fat meat and fish that were cooked by boiling or steam, a variety of porridges on the water, steam puddings, cooked or wiped vegetables, wiped sweet fruits and berries, juices in half with boiledwater, milk, kefir, ryazhenka and yogurt.
Diet for remission of enterocolitis
What can I eat during the period of remission? Patients are prescribed an increase in the amount of fat, and the diet is enriched with calcium and phosphorus salts. Salt is also used in the amount of 8-10 g.
When enterocolitis, doctors forbid the use of foods that have an irritating effect on the intestines and stimulate its motor activity. In the diet should not be: raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, fresh black bread, smoked products, fatty meat, poultry and fish, legumes, raisins, prunes, cold dishes and drinks, beet juice, kvass, spices and spices, milk, honey,syrups, canned food, carbonated drinks.
At remission of enterocolitis in adults it is also recommended to use low mineralized hydrocarbonate waters, curdled milk, which were heated up to 45 degrees. Reception is carried out on 150 ml for half an hour before a meal.
Sample menu for enterocolitis
With this type of colitis, you can use this power mode:
- For the first breakfast with this type of colitis can include: soufflé from fish, potato puree, tea and a few biscuits.
- For the second breakfast is allowed to serve an omelet cooked for a couple.
- For lunch, the diet allows the use of soup-puree, which was cooked on a weak broth of meat, while the vegetables should be wiped. Cutlets from chicken, also steamed. Puree from carrot and broth of wild rose.
- For an afternoon snack an excellent option would be baked apples.
- For dinner is served soufflé from cheese, porridge from manga on the water, tea.
- Before going to bed with colitis and with enterocolitis diet allows you to drink a glass of jelly from cherry juice, curdled milk.
During the whole day, the use of white dried bread is allowed in the amount of 200 g, sugar - 40 g, butter - 10 g.