Diet in acute and chronic pancreatitis: what, what you can eat and what you can not
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Today many suffer from pancreatitis, not knowing how important diet is in pancreatitis. Pancreatitis is provoked by malnutrition and poisoning.
Gentle diet for pancreatitis
In the first days after exacerbation of pancreatitis, give rest to your pancreas. On day 3 unsweetened tea and mashed mucus broths are allowed. From 5 days, carrot puree and mashed potatoes are added. River fish are chopped, made from not soufflé, pâté, cutlets. Milk, curd pudding is allowed.
When pancreatitis is important first meals, you can prepare vermicelli soup. You can add low-fat sour cream. Beef and chicken are allowed. Fish should choose river. Cottage cheese should be consumed non-acid, non-fat. Dutch and Russian hard cheese are allowed. Macaroni, homemade noodles are added to soups.
Diet for weight loss in pancreatitis
Diet in pancreatitis is an important therapeutic factor, which is more important than all medicines. They play a supporting role. It's not for nothing that pancreatitis provokes overeating and poisoning.
Eliminate alcohol, seasonings, smoked products. Buy a steamer. The elimination of fat will help to reduce weight. Veal, turkey is better to chop on minced meat and make casseroles.
Diet 5 with pancreatitis
Has such basic principles: it is impossible to take hot and cold food, it needs to be grinded. It is useful to drink rose hips.
The diet table for pancreatitis is an obligatory part of the treatment. Diet 5 is the right diet, useful even to healthy people.
Canned and fatty broths are forbidden. All dishes are wiped in a blender.
Useful products: chicken fillet boiled, vegetable soups, yesterday's bread, milk soups, buckwheat.
- How much to maintain a diet for pancreatitis?
Diet in pancreatitis, if it is acute, is prescribed for 6-9 months. With chronic pancreatitis - for several years.
- What should not include a diet for pancreatitis?
Beef fat, cabbage, radish, spinach, rutabaga, alcohol, black bread.
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Examples of dietary 5 recipes for pancreatitis
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Steam cutlets
200 g of beef, 30 g of wheat bread, 3 tbsp. Milk, 3 teaspoons. Olive oil, a pinch of salt.
Mix the ingredients. Minced meat divided into marbles. Put in a steamer, pour water, close the lid and cook until cooked over moderate heat.
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Milk soup with noodles
150g of flour, 2 eggs, 10g of butter, 10g of sugar, 350ml of milk.
Put the dough out of flour, water and eggs. Thinly roll out and chop noodles. In the milk, cover the noodles and cook for 8-12 minutes.
Diet 5p with pancreatitis
Used to stimulate digestion, it limits carbohydrates and fats. Caloric content is 2700-2800 kcal. Read more here.
What dishes are allowed with a 5p diet?
- Bread yesterday's wheat, biscuit biscuits.
- Soups on vegetable broth, fruit soups.
- Dishes from meat: low-fat varieties of chicken and veal.
- Mushrooms, beans, spinach - banned. Zucchini and pumpkin are allowed.
- Legumes are excluded.
- No more than 1 egg per day is allowed.
- Non-acid fruits, preferably wiped, berries.
- Allowed low-fat cottage cheese.
- Allowed gravy from berries, sour cream sauces.
- Fats: sunflower and olive oil. Limit butter.
Forbidden:
- Buns, mushrooms, smoked meat, fatty meat, legumes.
Diet 5a with pancreatitis
It is prescribed when the patient also has lesions of the biliary tract. It is a diet with limited consumption of fats and cholesterol with sufficient calorie content.
Permitted products
Low-fat cooked beef and chicken, boiled steam fish, egg white omelet, low-fat milk, vegetable oil, a small amount of butter, buckwheat, rice, semolina and buckwheat soufflé. Boiled squash is useful as slices. Vegetable soups with sour cream. Raw and baked fruit, berries. The marshmallow is allowed.
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Diet 1 with pancreatitis
It is prescribed when acute or chronic pancreatitis is combined with stomach diseases.
Permitted products
- Eggs: protein steam omelet.
- Milk and cereal soups (except for pearl barley).
- Meat and fish: chicken, lean beef, low-fat fish.
- Milk porridge from low-fat milk.
- Vegetables: carrot puree, mashed beets, mashed potatoes.
- Berries: uncooked, raw, sweet, jam. Infusion of dog rose, compotes, kissels.
Recipes for pancreatitis
Do not forget that after an attack of acute pancreatitis you need to follow a diet of 8-9 months.
So, here are recipes for delicious and healthy dishes with pancreatitis. They are easy to prepare.
Meat pudding for a couple
You need:
- 240 g of beef
- 40 g of butter
- 20 g of mango
- ½ cup of water
- 1 egg
- Boil the meat.
- We pass the boiled beef through a meat grinder.
- We connect with a gruel from semolina and eggs.
- We knead the dough, spread it into a mold, greased with oil and bring it to readiness for a couple.
Snowboards
You need:
- egg white
- 30 g of sugar
- 100 g strawberries
- 20 g flour
- 120 g of water
- Vanillin (pinch)
Protein is beaten and injected with vanillin and sugar. Spread a spoon in a shape with boiling water. Snowballs are turned over, covered with a lid and allowed to stand for 4 minutes. Get it out and let the water drain. Snowballs are poured with a sauce made from strawberries, flour and 10 g of sugar.
Banana-peach cake without baking
You need to take 1 banana and 1 peach, 250 ml of yogurt, a dry biscuit, a glass of water and a packet of gelatin. Gelatine is diluted in hot water. Add yogurt, stir. Lay the foil on the bottom of the mold. Lay out layers: a layer of cookies, a layer of yogurt and gelatin, a layer of bananas, a layer of cream, a layer of peaches, a layer of cream. Put the cake in the fridge - let it freeze.
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Diet for a week with pancreatitis
It can be not only useful, but also very tasty. White yesterday's bread and cookies "Maria" and "Zoological" are allowed. Steam omelet, low-fat milk, kefir, sour cream - these products can be consumed. You can eat sweet fruits, dried fruits and raisins.
What should be excluded from food to avoid recurrence of pancreatitis? Sturdy broths, fried, smoked, baked and chocolate.
So, the weekly menu for pancreatitis is about this.
Monday
- Breakfast: biscuits with cheese.
- Second breakfast: scrambled eggs, bread with tea.
- Lunch: buckwheat porridge, boiled squash, cottage cheese.
- Afternoon snack: grated apple.
- Dinner: oatmeal, beetroot salad, baked apple.
Tuesday
- Breakfast: cottage cheese.
- The second breakfast: a salad of carrots and green peas.
- Lunch: beef with bread.
- Supper: vegetable soup, carrot puree, apple puree, yoghurt.
Wednesday
- Breakfast: yoghurt, apple.
- The second breakfast: baked apple, raisins.
- Lunch: fish, buckwheat, bread.
- Supper: soup from vegetables, bread, dried apricots.
Thursday
- Breakfast: cottage cheese.
- The second breakfast: boiled meat, vegetable puree, kefir.
- Lunch: steam omelet, broth of dogrose, bread.
- Dinner: rice-curd pudding, yoghurt.
Friday
- Breakfast: mineral water without gas, biscuits.
- Second breakfast: steamed cutlets, beetroot salad.
- Lunch: stew, carrot-pumpkin puree.
- Dinner: boiled rice, yoghurt.
Saturday
- Breakfast: steam omelet.
- The second breakfast: boiled meat, not strong tea.
- Lunch: steamed rice, baked apples, broth of wild rose.
- Dinner: rice pudding, yoghurt.
Sunday
- Breakfast: cottage cheese.
- The second breakfast: lentil soup (during a period of persistent remission).
- Lunch: chicken steamed, puree from apples.
- Dinner: boiled beets, boiled potatoes, steamed meat, tea.
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Diet by day for pancreatitis
You need 4 times a day. Beetroot, pork and goose, kidneys, sausage, salmon, sturgeon, lard, mayonnaise, cream, millet and barley side dishes, cabbage, radish, rutabaga, onions, sauces, vinegar, citrus from the diet should be completely ruled out.
Monday
- Breakfast: protein omelet, rice porridge, tea.
- Second breakfast: cottage cheese, yogurt.
- Lunch: soup from vegetables, steamed cutlets, carrots puree, compote of apples.
- Dinner: fish knellets, mashed potatoes and tea.
Tuesday
- Breakfast: protein omelet, milk buckwheat porridge, tea.
- Second breakfast: cottage cheese, yogurt.
- Lunch: vegetable soup, boiled chicken, jelly.
- Dinner: boiled fish, boiled potatoes, not strong tea.
Wednesday
- Breakfast: rusks, still mineral water.
- The second breakfast: a steam omelet, a slice of white bread, a glass of milk.
- Lunch: 200 g of boiled fish, slice of white bread.
- Dinner: 200 g of oatmeal, 200 g of carrot puree, slice of white bread, tea with milk.
Thursday
- Breakfast: 200 grams of oatmeal, a slice of white bread, mineral water without gas.
- The second breakfast: 100 g of curd cheese, 100 g of apple puree, tea.
- Lunch: 400 ml of vegetable soup-puree, 200 g of pumpkin porridge, 200 g of cottage cheese.
- Supper: 100g of meatloaf, 100 g of curd casserole, 200 ml of jelly.
Friday:
- Breakfast: 200 grams of mashed rice porridge, a slice of white bread.
- Second breakfast: 200 g of rice pudding, 200 g of carrot puree, 200 ml of tea with milk.
- Lunch: 400 ml of vegetable soup, 100 g curd casserole.
- Dinner: 200 g of chicken meat, 200 g of oatmeal, a glass of tea.
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Menu diet for pancreatitis
Diet with pancreatitis is the main medicine. Without a diet from pancreatitis you can not get rid of. We will tell you what products should be abandoned, and what you can eat and how to make sure that compliance with the diet does not turn into torture for you, rather than replace the forbidden sweets.
The first 4 days the patient observes medical starvation, drinks only water. Starting from the 5th day you can drink tea with crackers, there is a steam omelet. One week after the attack, you can eat vegetable soups. You can not eat black bread, puff pastry, cakes, cakes, ice cream, kidneys, smoked sausages and canned food.
You can eat lean boiled fish. Eggs are best used in the form of protein steam omelettes.
Milk is used in dishes. Allowed boiled pasta. Millet porridge can not be used for pancreatitis.
From vegetables, carrots, potatoes, cauliflower are allowed.
From soups, preference is given to oatmeal and rice. Excluded okroshka, fish broths, meat broths.
From sweet drinks are allowed compotes and mousses, baked apples, mashed fruits, fruit and berry gravies.
Eliminate all spices and spices from the diet.
Very good broth of dogrose. You can drink a weak tea and a drink from chicory. Cocoa and coffee exclude.
You absolutely can not drink spirits, spicy spices, chips and French fries, hot dogs, chebureks, shawarma.
Dietary table for various types of pancreatitis
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Diet for chronic pancreatitis
The dietary table excludes products that have a sokornym action and minimizes carbohydrates. Food is boiled and eaten.
Only white bread of yesterday is allowed, baking is forbidden. Allowed low-fat beef, rabbit meat, in a steam form, low-fat fish. Eggs - only in the form of a steam protein omelet. Non-acidic cottage cheese is allowed. Creamy, sunflower oil should be added to the dishes. Porridge from semolina and rice cooked on milk with water. Eat more carrots, zucchini, potatoes, green peas, young beans. Of fruits, only baked apples are useful. Drink the knots from dried fruits. Take the thermos with the broth of the dog rose to work. Prepare milk sauces - they are very tasty. Unsafe sauces, seasonings, spices are prohibited.
You can not eat lamb, duck, smoked meat, sausage, sturgeon, carp, marinades, mushrooms, coffee, chocolate, sorrel, lettuce, turnip, beans (except for young beans and lentils), cranberries, pomegranate and soda.
Diet for acute pancreatitis
Strong and prolonged inflammation of the pancreas can sometimes lead to diabetes mellitus. Take care, do not allow errors in the diet. When you are in the first days after the attack in the hospital, you will not be given food at all. This is necessary to spare the iron as much as possible.
Why do people suffer from acute pancreatitis ? The thing is that in our national tradition to arrange for the holidays abundant feasts with alcohol, lots of fried dishes, picnics with lamb shish kebab. We often eat on the go, in McDonald's. All this overstrains the pancreas and one day there is an attack with severe pains. An ulcer contributes to the disease.
On day 6, the diet is expanded by adding jelly, liquid cereal, steam chicken cutlets.
Smoked meat, marinades, lard, buns are excluded up to a year.
Diet in case of exacerbation of pancreatitis
The dietary table as much as possible spares the pancreas. The first day allowed warmed mineral water Borzhomi, broth of wild rose, tea.
On the third day it is allowed to expand the diet: we add mucous soups, milk kissels, liquid cereals without oil.
When the pain disappears, observe the undeveloped, expanded version of the diet. But still very long, up to a year, you can not eat anything fried, fatty, no baking and baking.
Diet for pancreatitis in children
The dietary table should not interfere with their proper growth and development. Feed your baby often, in small portions.
Pay attention to lean meat: veal, chicken, turkey.
With exacerbation of pancreatitis, prepare a baby omelette for a couple, and with remission - steam omelet from a single egg.
A child who is sick with pancreatitis needs a natural low-fat cottage cheese. It contains the calcium necessary for the growth of bones. Very fond of children are delicious homemade cottage cheese casseroles with carrots, apricots, apples. Apples can also be baked - in this case they also help with anemia.
Butter buy in packs of 100 g and use only in dishes. Children with pancreatitis do not tolerate butter, smeared with bread.
Ideal soup for a child with a sick pancreas - a vegetable assembly, blended in a blender. In winter, you can use sets of frozen vegetables.
Eliminate the pork and duck from the baby's menu. Do not give sausages, marinades and mushrooms, fried fish, cocoa, chocolate, turnips, radish, legumes and Ukrainian bread.
Useful vegetables: carrots, zucchini, potatoes, beets. Serve them in a wipe and boiled. Cauliflower, not kochanuyu, add to soups.
You can sometimes give your child marshmallows and milk sweets, but very little.
Diet for pancreatitis in adults
Alcohol, the intake of hormonal drugs, stress, parasites, concomitant diseases of the digestive tract are all factors in the development of pancreatitis in adults. Against the background of diseases of the stomach and liver there is a reactive pancreatitis.
It is better to cook foods in a double boiler.
What you can use:
- Vegetable soups.
- Idea, beef, chicken.
- Prostokvasha, non-acidic cottage cheese, Dutch cheese.
- Butter in prepared dishes.
- Buckwheat, oatmeal, rice.
- Noodles.
- Boiled vegetables: pumpkin, zucchini, potatoes, carrots, beets.
- Baked sweet apples.
- Compotes, jelly, juices, dried fruits.
Alcohol, fried foods, radish, spinach and pickles exclude.
It is allowed 1 banana per day and 1 egg a day, cooked "in a bag".
Diet with reactive pancreatitis
The dietary table should consider those concomitant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, because of which the pancreas became inflamed. Most often, the cause of reactive pancreatitis is liver and gallbladder disease, stones in it, gastritis and hepatitis. Alcohol and fatty foods also provoke seizures, they must be permanently excluded. Poisoning by heavy metals often occurs in harmful industries, after which workers detect reactive pancreatitis. In women, the cause of inflammation of the pancreas can be a contraceptive method. A certain role is played by genetic predisposition.
The diet with pancreatitis creates for the pancreas complete physiological rest. The food should be fractional and frequent (4-5 times a day). Minimize carbohydrates, give preference to protein foods. It allows for low-fat beef, veal, chicken and fish in a boiled form. Exclude meat and mushroom broths, sour vegetables and fruits. Baked and boiled meat and fish, vegetables and cereals are the basis of the patient's diet of pancreatitis.
Dietary table with pancreatitis and concomitant diseases
Diet for cholecystitis and pancreatitis
Cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder. Cholecystitis sometimes causes inflammation of the pancreas - pancreatitis. The cause of pancreatitis is alcoholism, stress. With pancreatitis, there is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
Proteins should predominate in the diet of patients. Exclude sharp, smoked, fried, salty dishes. Food is boiled.
Drinks for cholecystitis and pancreatitis: non-acidic juices, broth of wild rose.
Yesterday's white bread is allowed. Of dairy products - home-made cottage cheese. Vegetable soups, albumen omelet, jam and honey are allowed.
What to exclude? Diet with pancreatitis excludes fresh baked goods, fatty fish - trout, catfish, pink salmon, fatty meat, marinades, smoked meats, sour berries, alcohol, cocoa, chocolate, cream, soda, millet, corn, pearl gruel, legumes, cabbage, grapes and figs.
Read in more detail: Diet for pancreatitis and cholecystitis
Diet for pancreatitis and gastritis
Pancreatitis and gastritis are very insidious, now they are found even in children. We used to pamper them, buy sweets - and here's the result.
The best meat is chicken and rabbit. Of these, rolls and mashed potatoes are prepared.
For those who do not represent their table without fish, carp, bream and pike, cutlets and pate from them will do.
Very useful vegetable dishes, carrots, mashed potatoes, lentils. Popular are mashed stewed vegetables, stew (without sauce, with refined oil), mashed potatoes, puddings.
Cottage cheese dishes, especially casseroles of low-fat cottage cheese, can also include a diet for pancreatitis and gastritis.
Black bread, chocolate and cakes are forbidden.
Diabetes and pancreatitis diet
Picking the right food, you can minimize the pharmacological treatment for diabetes and pancreatitis.
The duration of fasting with acute pancreatitis is 1-4 days. On 3-4 days, therapeutic nutrition is given in small fractional portions. For example, rice porridge on milk in half with water and a protein omelet. Further porridge can be cooked with whole milk on good milk, include low-fat cottage cheese without sugar in food. On day 8-9, meat is added in the form of steam souffles, on day 10 - in the form of kneli. Meat, mushroom broths, mutton and pork fat, sour dishes, beans, radish, garlic and chocolate are excluded from the diet. Sugar, jam, sweets, sweet fruits, honey, grape juice of patients with diabetes is prohibited!
Recommended dried white bread, vegetable and cereal (especially buckwheat) soups with sour cream.
Veal and chicken cooked steamed chops, soufflé, knels.
Tresca, pike and other low-fat fish are cooked in a double boiler.
A non-fat non-fat curd and neoprene cheese, semolina and oatmeal porridge, carrot and pumpkin puree, non-acid raw uncooked apples, tea with milk without sugar are allowed. Use butter in ready-made dishes, and not on a sandwich.
If you are sick with diabetes, diversify the diet with vegetable soups, 200 grams per day of low-fat meat or boiled fish, pasta (up to 150 grams per day).
Diet in pancreatitis and diabetes allows you to consume up to 250 grams of potatoes and carrots per day. Eggs are allowed not more than 1 pc. In the dishes. It is useful to drink a glass of kefir a day. Use cheese and sour cream seldom. Useful natural low-fat cottage cheese, as well as dishes from it (casseroles, cheese cakes).
A decoction of broth and green tea without sugar is useful.
Diet for ulcers and pancreatitis
Dietary table must be a fractional, you need to avoid soggin foods: coffee, chocolate, mushrooms, alcohol, fish stock, canned food, pickles. Low-fat meat, fish and non-acid curd are allowed. You can not smoke meat and fish, fry, just steaming, stew and bake in the oven. Useful mucous soups and mashed vegetables, all food should be nedosalivat.
In the treatment of ulcers and pancreatitis the leading role belongs to the diet. In the first days after an attack of ulcers and pancreatitis starve. On the third day you can eat mashed potatoes, drink jelly. Mineral without gas and meat for a couple, dishes from cottage cheese are allowed. After the abatement of pain, the patient eats dishes from grated oatmeal or rice. Rice porridge can be cooked on milk, diluted with water. Also suitable is a protein omelet. On day 7, vegetable soups, mashed carrots, low-fat meat can be introduced into the diet. From fruits you can eat baked apples, plums, pears. Fish is consumed up to 200 g per day, only lean.
Diet with gastroduodenitis and pancreatitis
Gastritis, gastroduodenitis and pancreatitis overtake many in their student years. How to eat properly so as not to provoke another exacerbation?
What kind of bread can you eat? Only white, yesterday, slightly dried.
Vegetable soups and soups of cereals are allowed, incl. Milk.
From meat is suitable low-fat beef and chicken. Prepare a meat pate and soufflé, steam cutlets, meat balls, knels.
Perch, cod and pike are perfect for making delicious fish soufflé and pâté.
Suitable side dishes: mashed potatoes, beets, buckwheat.
Cook stewed vegetables and delicious casseroles from vegetables.
Eggs in the acute period of the patient is better not to offer, you can only proteins, without yolks, in the form of a steam omelet.
Exclude from the menu black bread and raw vegetables and fruits, sturgeon, pink salmon, pork, duck.
Diet for pancreatitis and hepatitis
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It is often combined with pancreatitis. With hepatitis, only a part of the liver cells performs its functions, and some do not work and are replaced by a connective tissue. This phenomenon is called fibrosis. Each cell of the liver performs a variety of functions for neutralization, synthesis and production of bile, is involved in protein and carbohydrate metabolism.
To chronic hepatitis often leads not only to viral liver damage, but also parasites, aggressive medicines and tuberculosis, hypothyroidism, obesity, lead poisoning and chloroform.
The scheme of cleansing the body and diet for pancreatitis and hepatitis looks like this:
- You can not eat fat, fried, spicy food. Poorly tolerated turnip, radish. You are guided by what disease is now leading according to laboratory indicators.
- Replace enzymes according to the indications.
- Treat a dysbacteriosis if you have it.
- Check for helminths.
- Take vitamin therapy.
- Watch for the level of iron in the blood.
Of carbohydrates is very useful marmalade and marshmallows. Eat foods with magnesium, phosphorus, cobalt. You can use non-acid juices.
What is prohibited? First of all, fatty meat, fatty fish, fish broths, mushroom broths, fish oil, heart, cocoa, canned food, onions, mustard, strong vinegar, alcohol and ice cream.
Useful cheese, buckwheat, lean fish (pike, cod).
Diet in pancreatitis is the main method of treatment, which can not be replaced by pharmacological agents, since only compliance with the diet helps to relieve the pancreas.