Diet with intestinal infection
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Diet with intestinal infection, when due to vomiting and diarrhea there is a strong dehydration of the body and loss of vital substances, is aimed at restoring water-salt balance and return to the gastrointestinal tract the ability to normally perform its functions.
When a dysenteric rod, salmonella, rotavirus or enteroviral infection is damaged, the treatment of intestinal infection with a diet is mandatory, and, in fact, it is an important part of the symptomatic therapy of intestinal pathologies.
[Treatment of intestinal infection with diet
Regardless of the specific type of bacteria or viruses that caused the disease, treatment of intestinal infection by diet in adults should begin with a temporary suspension of any food intake. The main thing during an acute period is not to allow dehydration, which when a certain level (20% of the physiological volume of fluid in the body) reaches a mortal threat.
Therefore, when acute intestinal intoxication occurs, it is necessary to take in the so-called rehydration solutions or rehydrant solutions: Ringer-Locke solution, Regidron, Hydrovit, Glucosolan, Gastrolit, Trigidron (they are available in bags, the contents of which are soluble in water). These plasma-substituting, detoxifying saline solutions are recommended for moderate diarrhea - 50 ml for each kilogram of body weight, with an average severity - 80 ml per kilogram. Dosage for children is indicated in the instructions to the preparations, and the child should be given a drink, depending on his age and condition.
According to the optimum composition of the solution against dehydration established by the World Health Organization, 3.5 g of sodium chloride should be consumed per liter; 1.5 g of potassium chloride; 3 g sodium citrate and 20 g glucose.
Most doctors believe that a diet for acute intestinal infection, as well as a diet for viral intestinal infection - in the first stage of the disease - consists in the use of sweetened black tea (1-1.2 liters per day). In this case, the total volume of liquid that is drunk during the day must be at least 2-2.5 liters. Some gastroenterologists recommend that adults consume a decoction of dried rose hips or blueberries, an infusion of rinds of fresh apples, a strained rice broth.
Diet for intestinal infection in adults
What kind of diet for intestinal infections is prescribed by doctors? This is a diet number 4, based on the use of products that neither chemically, nor mechanically, nor thermally irritate the esophagus, stomach and intestines. Therefore, the food should be a semi-liquid consistency, medium temperature, steamed or cooked, and thoroughly crushed before consumption. Power mode - 5-6-time.
The calorie content of such a diet in adults with intestinal infection is approximately 1980 kcal; sugar is not more than 40 grams, and salts - not more than 10 grams per day; the content of fats and carbohydrates is reduced respectively to 70 g and 250 g, and the amount of proteins is at a level of 100 g per day.
After improving the state of health, patients are transferred to a diet number 4B, which is significantly higher in terms of daily caloric content (about 3000 kcal) and carbohydrate content (up to 400 g); fat, protein, sugar and table salt - as in diet number 4. Diet No. 4B already allows the dishes to be stewed, baked in the oven and slightly roasted. And the number of meals is reduced to four times a day. In this case, both diets recommend and limit the same products.
Diet to children with intestinal infection
Diet for children with intestinal infection is based on the same principles as the diet for adults, but has an "amendment" for the child's age.
Treatment of intestinal infection with a diet in children involves the need to limit the intake of carbohydrate food, primarily milk sugar (lactose), which contains milk and products based on it. The fact is that the main stage of digestion of carbohydrates, including lactose, does not occur in the stomach (where carbohydrates are only partially hydrolyzed), but in the small intestine. And if there is an intestinal bacterial infection, milk sugar begins to ferment, which causes excessive gas formation and, as a result, bloating and colic.
For this reason, for infants of the first year of life who are on artificial feeding, it is necessary to replace conventional milk mixtures with mixtures with a low lactose content or with its complete absence for the time of illness.
Infant-infants, whom mothers are fed with breast milk, the volume of sucked-up milk is not recommended to be reduced by more than 40% (for several days), since it contains protective antibodies. In this number of feedings should be increased. However, the main regulator of this process is the baby's appetite and its general condition.
In addition, despite the fact that the digestive system of children of this age is in the process of development and improvement, initially among the acids of their bile taurocholic acid, which has antiseptic properties and helps to fight with pathogenic intestinal bacteria and viruses, prevails.
For older children, a diet with an acute intestinal infection, as well as a diet with a viral intestinal infection - with respect to the prohibition and authorization of those or products - practically does not differ from the rules of nutrition that should be observed by adults.
Menu diet for intestinal infection
An approximate diet menu for an intestinal infection can consist of semolina rice or semi-liquid rice porridge, cooked on water, and sweet tea and white bread crumbs. At the second breakfast you can offer jelly with the same cracker.
Lunch can consist of a low-fat beef broth with a rusk for the first and a meat soufflé for the second. End of dinner - a glass of dog rose broth. Kissel (or jelly) of black currant is suitable for a snack.
And for dinner you can eat mashed porridge from oatmeal and chicken steak, as well as drink a bowl of weak tea or apple compote.
Diet recipes for intestinal infections
Many diet recipes for intestinal infections, for example, mashed cereals, do not require description. And here's how to cook a steamed soufflé of chicken, we'll help.
It will take a chicken breast, which must be boiled (whole or cut into several pieces). Then the boiled chicken is crushed through a meat grinder or with a blender.
Further, the ground meat is combined with raw egg yolk, beaten in foam with egg white and 3-4 tablespoons of chicken broth, in which you need to stir a couple of teaspoons of wheat flour and salt. The mass is thoroughly mixed to a homogeneous state, laid out in a greased form refined with vegetable oil and cooked steamed.
Instead of flour, you can put the same amount of boiled and chopped rice. Then add a small piece of butter to the mixture.
Diet with intestinal infection requires strict adherence, then the body of both adults and children will be much easier to cope with the disease.
What can you eat with an intestinal infection?
You can use dried bread to dry bread; mucous soups on low-fat meat broth; rubbed porridge (not on milk); steam dishes from chopped meat or poultry; eggs (two pieces a day - soft-boiled or in the form of a steam omelet); berry and fruit jelly; rubbed cottage cheese with low fat content; tea and black coffee. Butter can be put in dishes, but quite a bit (5-7 g).
What can not be eaten with an intestinal infection?
A list of what can not be eaten with an intestinal infection is much more extensive. So, a diet with intestinal infection absolutely does not allow the use of bread and baking; pearl barley, corn, barley and millet cereals; milk and dairy products (except for cottage cheese).
Also, the diet should not be: fatty meat, poultry and fish; sausages and meat smoked products; salted and smoked fish; fresh vegetables (cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, garlic) and spicy greenery; fresh fruits and berries; legumes and mushrooms.
Canned food, sauces, seasonings (mustard, horseradish, etc.), spicy cheese, eggs (roasted and boiled hard-boiled), chocolate, confectionery, fruit juices, carbonated drinks, alcohol can not be used under any pretext - until toxins are withdrawn from the body and normal work of the gastrointestinal tract will not normalize.