What food to eat after gastroscopy

The recovery period after gastroscopy is based on light and easy-to-digest food, such as you can choose to eat milk, soy milk, rice, steamed bread, eggs and other foods. Gastroscopy may have some damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa, the recovery period should not eat spicy and stimulating food, to avoid stimulation of the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in discomfort, but also easy to affect the gastrointestinal health. During the recovery period, you can choose to eat thin rice, fresh vegetables and other relatively light and easy to digest food, which is beneficial to the recovery. If you are doing painless gastroscopy, you can’t eat or drink until the anesthetic wears off, so as to avoid any accidental aspiration of food or water, which may lead to aspiration pneumonia. Usually the anesthesia will subside in about 1~2 hours, and at first you can choose to eat liquid food, such as milk, soy milk, rice, etc. You can choose to eat easy-to-digest food, such as steamed buns, buns, eggs, as well as bananas and so on. If there is any abnormality after gastroscopy, you must go to the regular hospital in time and follow the doctor’s instructions, so as not to delay the condition.