After total gastrectomy, you can eat, but it is very important to manage your diet so that you do not eat as freely as the general population.
After total gastrectomy, the patient loses the process of digestion and grinding of food by the stomach and goes directly to the intestine for digestion and absorption. It is necessary to pay attention to the amount, frequency and texture of the diet according to the postoperative time.
After the recovery of anal exhaustion and intestinal peristalsis, the patient can drink 10 m L-20 m L of warm boiled water with tube, and after eating, observe whether there is abdominal discomfort such as abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. If there is no discomfort, the patient can drink another 20 m L of warm boiled water 3-4 h later.
On the day after extubation, you can drink a small amount of water or rice soup, if there is no discomfort, you can enter the semi-liquid diet on the 2nd day, 50-80 m L each time; on the 3rd day, you can enter the full-volume liquid diet, 100-150 m L each time; if there is no discomfort after eating, you can enter the semi-liquid diet on the 4th day.
The food should be warm, soft, easy to digest, and in small amounts. The food should be warm, soft, easy to digest, small and frequent meals. 5-6 meals per day at the beginning, gradually reduce the number of meals and increase the amount of each meal, and gradually return to normal diet.
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