Diet after a hernia

Diet after a hernia - after pathological protrusion is eliminated surgically - does not imply such strict restrictions in the diet, as, for example, after operations on the digestive and gastrointestinal tract.

The main goal pursued by the diet after removal of the hernia is to minimize intestinal pressure on the surgical intervention zone. This can be achieved with the help of rational fractional nutrition and exclusion of products that prolong the process of digestion of food, cause increased formation and accumulation of gases in the intestines, and also contribute to obtipation, that is, constipation.

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Diet after removal of the hernia: umbilical, inguinal and abdominal

The diet is observed after removal of the inguinal hernia, the diet after removal of the umbilical hernia, as well as the diet after removal of the hernia of the abdomen (abdominal hernia) in the first days after the operation and during the entire rehabilitation period. These diets do not differ from each other.

We have already mentioned the recommended and contraindicated products, and now a few words about the therapeutic diet №0в, which is also defined as the surgical diet. This is exactly the food, which from the doctors' point of view is most suitable as a diet after removal of the hernia.

With this diet should eat up to 6 times during the day; the total energy value should be about 2,400 kcal. According to the daily chemical composition, the diet after a hernia looks like this: no more than 90 g of proteins, about 70 g of fats, 300-350 g of carbohydrates, table salt - up to 10 g, liquid (in the form of water) - not less than 1.5 l.

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The menu of a diet after a hernia

Given the recommended products and excluding contraindicated products, the diet menu after a hernia (umbilical, inguinal or abdominal) may have approximately the following form:

• For breakfast: rice porridge on the water in half with milk, not strong tea with honey.
• For the second breakfast: low-fat cottage cheese with sour cream.
• For lunch: chicken soup with vermicelli, steam fish with mashed potatoes, compote.
• For a snack: berry jelly.
• For dinner: a steak with buckwheat porridge, a salad of carrots with olive oil.

The second version of the menu for the day:

• For breakfast: porridge of oatmeal, coffee drink with chicory, crackers.
• For the second breakfast: soft-boiled egg, tea, a slice of dried bread.
• For lunch: vegetable soup, steamed veal with salad, green tea.
• For a snack: boiled dried with dried water.
• For dinner: potato casserole with boiled turkey, broth of wild rose.

The third menu option:

• For breakfast: buckwheat porridge with milk, tea, bread with fruit jam.
• For the second breakfast: tea with biscuit biscuits.
• For lunch: potato soup, boiled chicken with vegetables, compote.

For a snack: kefir.

For dinner: pasta with cheese, vegetable salad, broth of wild rose.

Recipes of a diet after a hernia

Prepare dishes using diet recipes after a hernia, should be steamed (or in a double boiler), by cooking or extinguishing. For dressing soups, it is better not to use traditional onion dressing with root vegetables.

Chicken soup with cheese

To cook this soup, you need 300 g of chicken (1.2 liters of water), 2 potatoes, a small carrot, 100 cheeses (or melted cheese), a little green parsley.

Brews a weak chicken broth with whole carrots; at the end of its preparation, meat and carrots are removed: boiled chicken will be used for the second, and the carrots are ground and returned to the pan. Finely chopped potatoes are added, and the cooking continues until the potato is ready. Cheese (or cheese) rubs on a grater and with constant stirring is put in broth.

The soup will be ready when the cheese is completely melted, it remains to put the finely chopped greens and close the pan with a lid. After 10 minutes, chicken soup with cheese can be poured on plates.

Soup with courgettes

For this soup, you need two small young squash, peeled and cut into cubes, and grated on a small grater, put a small carrot in salted boiling water (about 1 liter) and cook for 10 minutes. Then pour half a glass of rinsed rice into the pan and cook until the rice is boiled. At the end of the meal, put in the soup 60 g of butter and chopped dill (a tablespoon).

Dietary soup with vermicelli

For 1-1.2 liters of loose broth or water, you need 2 potatoes, 1 carrot, 140 grams of the finest vermicelli, 50 g of butter, raw chicken egg and greens.

In boiling broth or salted water, put peeled and diced potatoes and grated carrots. Vegetables should be cooked for about 15 minutes, after which vermicelli is poured into the pan and oil is put. When the soup boils again, with constant stirring, a whipped egg is introduced into it, and the soup is cooked for 2 more minutes. When serving in a plate, you can put a little greens and sour cream.

Diet after a hernia will help to transfer the recovery period after surgery easier. Therefore, it is necessary to strictly follow all the prescriptions of doctors aimed at the fastest healing of joints and prevention of negative consequences.

What you can not eat after a hernia?

What can not be eaten after a hernia leads to either excessive gas formation or constipation. Such products include: all legumes; fatty meat and fish; smoked products and marinades; mushrooms; rye bread, bread with bran and baked pastry from yeast dough.

It is not recommended to include porridge, corn cereals and millet in the diet; hard-boiled eggs; whole milk, cream and ice cream. You can not eat rich and fatty soups; seasonings and spicy sauces; salted and pickled vegetables; sweets and confectionery, as well as raisins, prunes, dried apricots, nuts and seeds.

Of vegetables, the diet after removal of the hernia does not recommend eating all varieties of cabbage, radish, radish, tomatoes, eggplant, sweet pepper, sorrel, spinach, onions and garlic. Since carrots (like all root crops) have coarse fiber, then in its raw form it temporarily also does not need to be consumed, since dietary fiber enhances intestinal motility. And this - in the presence of stitches after removal of the hernia - must be avoided in all ways.

Of fruits, pears, apples, grapes, bananas and peaches are contraindicated. It is impossible to drink carbonated drinks, strong tea and black coffee, cocoa and fresh milk, apple and grape juices, kvass, beer, alcoholic beverages after removing any hernias. But the water should be consumed up to 1.5 liters a day - to avoid constipation.

What you can eat after a hernia?

After surgery, the doctor will definitely recommend what you can eat after a hernia. Within a few days after the surgery, until the joints are removed, only liquid and semi-liquid foods should be consumed: low-fat broth, vegetable mashed soups, semi-liquid porridges, jelly, cottage cheese, boiled and steam dishes from lean meat, poultry and fish. You can eat up to 75 grams of white breadcrumbs and once a day - a soft-boiled egg or a steamed omelet.

However, determining which diet after a hernia is suitable for the patient, it is necessary to take into account the individual characteristics of his body. So, in the presence of problems with timely evacuation of the intestine (propensity to constipation), it is not necessary to prescribe only chopped food in the form of mucous soups and mashed cereals (primarily rice), since it is this food that delays the emptying of the intestine.

Recommending after removing the hernia diet with a significant amount of plant fiber, doctors take care that the operated patient does not violate the digestive system. But even here one must bear in mind that in all people the excess of coarse fibers in food contributes to the increase in the volume of fecal matter, and in many causes bloating and increased formation of gases.