Diet with inflammation of the intestine
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Various kinds of inflammation of the intestinal mucosa and stomach cause disruption of food digestion and reduced absorption of nutrients. Diet with inflammation of the intestine is part of the treatment, it aims to alleviate the digestive system and reduce irritation.
Most often prescribed dietary table number 4, which reduces inflammation, normalizes the function of the gastrointestinal tract, provides the body with important trace elements and vitamins, and improves the performance of other internal organs.
The essence of diet
Food for inflammation of the intestine, in the first place, should not irritate the damaged mucosa, also products that promote fermentation or putrefactive processes are excluded.
Diet in case of intestinal inflammation includes steamed, stewed, boiled or baked dishes, necessarily in a crushed form (in a blender, through a meat grinder, sieve), it is important that the food be warm, so that the normal peristalsis of the intestine is not disturbed.
You can not consume pickles, fatty, fried dishes, smoked foods, sauces, marinades, foods with a lot of coarse fibers.
The main principle of the diet is fractionality - often, in small portions. This approach will facilitate the work of the intestine.
Diet with inflammation of the large intestine
Inflammation of the colon is characterized by a fickle stool, there is a tendency to constipation, or vice versa, a liquid stool, so the nutrition is adjusted depending on the symptomatology, in one case you need to eat foods with a laxative effect, in the other - delaying emptying.
If there is a tendency to constipation, you need to add to your diet sugary substances with a lax effect - fruit juices, honey, sweet fruit.
When diarrhea food is strictly limited, in this case, the main goal of the diet is the maximum shaking of the intestinal mucosa.
In this case, recommended low-fat broth, chopped meat (veal, chicken), vermicelli. Also, with normal susceptibility, you can eat fresh cottage cheese.
As the symptoms subsided, other foods are gradually added to the diet (start with vegetable purees, mashed soups, etc.).
Diet for inflammation of the small intestine
In inflammatory diseases of the small intestine mucosa (enterocolitis), there may be a tendency to constipation or diarrhea.
Because of frequent emptying, the body rapidly loses fluid, which leads to a violation of the water-salt balance, so the first few days the patient needs a strict restriction in food, it is allowed to drink strong black tea without sugar.
With diarrhea improves the condition of the jelly with blueberry berries, rice broth.
On the 3rd - 4th day, the diet is slightly enlarged and products are introduced that improve intestinal motility, reduce fermentation.
In the acute stage, you need to eat soups on rice or manna broth, lean meat, fish, jelly from oranges, tangerines.
Drink allowed jelly from berries (strawberry, raspberry, currant), juices (from tangerines, oranges).
When the acute symptoms abate, the inflammation of the intestine changes slightly, other foods are gradually found (it is important to monitor the state of health).
Menu diet for inflammation of the intestine
Approximate menu with liquid stool:
Monday
- breakfast - chicken meatballs, buckwheat porridge, compote (for snack cottage cheese).
- lunch - diet soup, fish soufflé, sweet tea (you can have a bite of tea with crackers).
- dinner - curd-buckwheat casserole, tea, croutons (kissel before bedtime).
Tuesday
- breakfast - boiled veal, braised zucchini, compote (snack - dry biscuits, sweet tea)
- dinner - soup with vermicelli, rice casserole with meat, tea (snack - jelly).
- dinner - stewed zucchini, braised fish, compote (jelly before bedtime).
Wednesday
- cottage cheese, rice boiled, compote (snack - baked apples)
- dinner - soup with vegetables and pearl barley, braised fish, vermicelli, tea (snack - crackers, water diluted with juice)
- dinner - vegetable stew, boiled fish, tea (jelly before bedtime)
Thursday
- breakfast - puree from potatoes, chicken meatballs, compote of apples (snack - berries)
- lunch - chicken noodles, vegetable stew, tea (snack - crackers, water diluted with juice).
- dinner - fish cutlets, stewed cauliflower, fruit souffle, tea (jelly before bedtime).
Friday
- breakfast - cottage cheese fried, mango cereal, compote (bite - baked apple)
- dinner - vegetable soup, meat roll with steam omelet filling, tea (snack - tea, crackers)
- dinner - casserole casserole, fish casseroles, compote (jelly before bedtime).
With a tendency to constipation, the menu for inflammation of the intestine will differ:
1 day
- Breakfast: protein omelet, casserole from cottage cheese, compote (snack - apples baked)
- Lunch - soup on chicken broth, goulash, boiled beets, tea (snack - prunes)
- Dinner - curd-buckwheat casserole, tea (kefir before bedtime)
2 day
- Breakfast - buckwheat, eggplant stewed, tea (snack - fresh vegetables)
- Lunch - borscht on vegetable broth, steamed vegetables with meat, tea (snack - prunes)
- Dinner - buckwheat, carrot chops, compote (curdled milk before bedtime)
3 day
- Breakfast - oatmeal, vinaigrette, tea with milk (snack - dried apricots)
- Lunch - soup with meatballs, zucchini stew, jelly with fruit (snack - carrot grated)
- Supper - fish cutlets, carrot casserole, tea with lemon (kefir before going to bed)
4 day
- Breakfast - vegetable salad, boiled fish, tea (snack - grapes)
- Lunch - vegetable soup with pearl barley, stewed vegetables, meatloaf, jelly (snack - fresh apple)
- Dinner - veal goulash, caviar from courgettes, tea (kefir before bedtime)
5 day
- Breakfast - buckwheat, goulash, tea with milk, compote (snack - tomatoes)
- Lunch - soup with cauliflower, braised chicken with vegetables, tea
- Supper - meatballs, eggplant caviar, tea (kefir before bedtime).
Diet with inflammation of the intestines should become one of the main parts of therapy, proper nutrition will help the speedy recovery of the mucosa. It should be remembered that all food should be grinded, steamed, baked or boiled. With the constipation of porridge you can fill a small piece of butter, for cooking and salad dressing - vegetable.
Also, with constipation, it is recommended to add a little vegetable oil and sugar to kefir.
Diet recipes
- Roll of meat stuffed with a couple omelette
200g veal, 5-7 slices of white bread 1 egg in minced meat (if the egg is large, you can take half), 2 eggs in an omelet, 5-6 tablespoons. Spoons of milk.
Mix the forcemeat with the egg, put moist gauze on the surface, lay a mince with a height of 1.5 - 2 cm on top.
Prepare the omelet: mix the eggs with milk. If there is no steamer, you can use a pot of water and a porcelain deep dish. Pour egg-and-milk mixture into a plate, cover with a lid and put in boiling water (you can use a smaller pan). Cook for 8-10 minutes.
Lay out the prepared omelette for minced meat, gently join the ends of the gauze, so that one edge comes to the other. You can prepare the roll in a multivariate, a steamer (about 25-30 minutes) or in a steaming dish.
- Manic Pudding
200 g of semolina, 450ml of milk, 4-5 pcs. Eggs, salt, sugar to taste, vanillin, butter.
In the ready mango add to taste sugar, salt, butter and vanillin.
Cool and enter the yolks, then chilled the whipped beans until thick foam, gradually add to the porridge. Shape the oil, change the pudding and cook for a couple (in a pan of water) for about 40-45 minutes.
- Rice casserole with meat
Minced 400g, 2st. Water, rice 230g, 1pc. Onions, 2 eggs, salt (vegetable oil will be needed for frying).
Boil rice, finely chop the onion, lightly fry minced meat with onions.
In rice, mix raw eggs. Put half the rice in the mold, then mince and cover with the rest of the rice.
Cook in a preheated 1900C oven for 25 - 30 minutes.
- Cottage Cheese Buckwheat Casserole
200g of non-acidic cottage cheese, 200g of buckwheat, 100ml of sour cream (in dough), 2 eggs, salt.
Cook buckwheat porridge, after cooling add sour cream, cottage cheese, eggs, salt and mix well.
To put in the form, to grease with a small amount of sour cream or an egg, to bake in an oven at 1800С within 35-40 min (the casserole should be slightly browned).
Diet for inflammation of the intestine, as one of the main methods of treatment, is used to restore the mucosa and reduce acute symptoms of the disease.
It should be remembered that any disease in the early stages is easier to treat, so it is important to recognize the first signs of inflammation of the intestine (pain, nausea, bloating, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, weight loss) and not delay with treatment.
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What can you eat with inflammation of the intestine?
In each case, the diet should be agreed with the doctor.
Diet for inflammation of the intestine should consist of the following products:
- meat, fish in baked, boiled or steamed form.
- vegetable, fish soup, dietary meat broth.
- egg (only with diarrhea, not more than 1 per day)
- carrots tartaya, beets, cauliflower, zucchini, pumpkin in a stewed or boiled form.
- porridges
- fruits, berries, prunes
- compote, jelly, jelly
- dairy products
- honey
- inconvenient pastry with the addition of dried apricots, berries, croutons, stale white bread.
- in small quantities, vegetable oil and butter
What you can not eat with inflammation of the intestines?
For the duration of the disease, it is necessary to exclude from the diet:
- fresh muffin, bread
- pepper, sauces, marinades, condiments, smoked products
- meat and fish fatty varieties, smoked meat, pickles,
- broths rich, fatty
- radish, radish
- fats
- pasta, mushrooms
- cakes, chocolate, etc.
- tea, coffee (strong)
Diet for inflammation of the intestine is adjusted by the attending physician depending on the symptoms, condition, etc. (for example, with diarrhea, 1 egg is added to the diet, soft-boiled eggs are completely excluded from constipation).