Every patient and family wants to make more effort to recover sooner after surgery. However, it is a technical task to make the right effort; if you don’t make the right effort, it may turn out to be a pluck and affect the patient’s recovery process.
The most common place that people think of making an effort is to let the patient eat something good. However, for patients after gastrointestinal surgery, what is considered “good” to eat is really a question worth considering.
First, the conclusion: post-gastrectomy patients.
1, two weeks after the surgery diet: should be mainly liquid, should be light and less oily, should eat less and more meals (a small amount of food at each meal, eat more than 9 meals a day); recommended diet: (1) enteral nutrition powder (enteral nutrition powder)
(1) enteral nutrition powder (Ansu, Nengquansu, etc.) daily total 200g (half a bucket) or more, divided into a dozen meals.
Advantages: comprehensive and balanced nutrition; you can add sugar, salt, fruit jelly and other flavoring agents to the powder; it is easy for doctors to calculate the nutritional intake of patients; it is relatively cheap; disadvantages: some patients are not used to the taste of the powder. For this part of patients, you can add sugar, salt, fruit jelly and other flavoring agents to the nutritional powder, and you can also use homemade soybean milk and rice paste.
(2) Homemade soybean milk and rice paste can be made by buying a soybean milk machine and using soybeans, mung beans, black beans, red beans, X beans, peanuts, rice, wheat, barley, oats, XX, one or more kinds, to make soybean milk by yourself. You can also add milk powder, nutritional powder, sugar, salt, banana, etc. to it.
Advantages: good taste; comprehensive nutrients; less oil; you can adjust the taste yourself; disadvantages: slightly more troublesome to make than enteral nutrition powder.
2. In January after surgery, the diet should be mainly liquid/semi-liquid, light and less oily, avoiding “raw, cold, spicy and hard” food, and eating less and more meals.
By this time, most of the patients have been discharged from the hospital, and their diets can be slightly more diversified, but they should still adhere to the above principles; the above two types of liquid diets are still recommended.
Second, a few more words (if you can do the above, the following contents can be ignored).
1. The impact of gastric cancer surgery on diet digestion Gastric cancer surgery requires removing most or all of the stomach and then connecting the remaining gastrointestinal tract with sutures. Frequently asked questions.
Can I still eat after my stomach is gone?
If most of the stomach is cut out, will I not be able to absorb food afterwards?
First, let’s look at what the stomach did for us before it was removed. Simply put, the stomach has two major roles: (1) storing food; and (2) grinding food. The stomach basically does not absorb nutrients, much less any nutrient that has to be absorbed inside the stomach. Therefore, what is lost after total or partial removal of the stomach is only the function of storing food and grinding food. Since this is the case, it is enough to find a way to compensate for these two functions of the stomach after gastric resection.
(1) Food storage: After surgery, eat less food per meal and more meals per day, and usually put the food in a thermos or thermos box to replace the storage function of the stomach.
(2) Grind food: eat liquid or semi-liquid food, cook the food thoroughly, chew it finely and slowly in the mouth, and use it to replace the grinding function of the stomach. In this way, although the loss of all or most of the stomach, however, still does not affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
2, said a few common misconceptions.
(1) Drink some fish soup, pigeon soup, old turtle soup, xx soup, can help patients recover; the fact is: these soups, 99% of the composition is water, the remaining a little is mainly “oil”. These imaginary tonic soups may not have much mysterious therapeutic effect on people with normal gastrointestinal tract function; for patients who have just undergone gastrointestinal surgery, if the soup contains more oil, it will slow down the intestinal peristalsis of patients, which is not conducive to recovery.
(2) buy some health care products, spend more money, money spent, certainly nutritious, the effect must be good; if you do so, you may have been brainwashed by the business.