Diet with ulcerative colitis

With ulcerative colitis, a diet is important in the complex therapy. Often, patients neglect the recommendations of a doctor and do not observe dietary restrictions, which prolongs the period of recovery and can cause deterioration. It is the change in the diet that allows you to reduce the unpleasant symptoms of the disease, increase the effectiveness of drug therapy, supplement the loss of nutrients due to diarrhea, in addition, therapeutic nutrition with ulcerative colitis can save the colon from removal.

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Diet 4 with ulcerative colitis

Health food № 4 is prescribed for exacerbation of intestinal diseases.

The main purpose of this diet is to reduce fermentation, putrefactive processes and inflammation of the intestinal mucosa, normalize the digestive tract and replenish the lack of nutrients that occurs with any digestion disturbance.

First of all, the treatment table №4 excludes any products that can cause rotting or fermentation, which increase intestinal motility and promote enhanced secretion of gastric juice.

The diet assumes reduction of fats and carbohydrates, which makes it low-calorie (protein content corresponds to physiological needs).

Such food can not ensure the full supply of nutrients and trace elements, so diet number 4 should be observed only the recommended number of days (on average, the diet is prescribed for 5 to 7 days).

As with other gastrointestinal diseases, food should not be too hot or cold, the dishes are served only in grinded form.

Fine thin non-cracked crackers, soups on diet broth, mucous, lean meats (beef, veal, turkey, chicken, rabbit, fish), cottage cheese, no more than two eggs per day, heat-treated vegetables (in soups, boiled, etc. .), grated porridge of rice, oatmeal, buckwheat flour, jelly, jelly, broths from pears, quinces, blueberries, apples, black or green coffee, tea (without milk).

Excluded from food are bread, flour products, rich and dairy soups, with pasta, fatty meats, canned goods, herring, milk and other dairy products (except cottage cheese), eggs in raw, fried or boiled form, cereals (barley, millet, barley ), pasta, legumes, any snacks, sweets (compotes, fruits and berries, dried fruits, jams, jam), spices, sauces.

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Diet with exacerbation of ulcerative colitis

With the aggravation of ulcerative colitis, a large amount of food is digested badly, nutrient absorption is impaired, so it is recommended to eat often and gradually. Dinner should be no later than 9 pm.

In this disease there is a violation of protein metabolism, especially after remission. During this period it is better to consume protein foods, especially proteins of animal origin, while limiting the amount of water you drink.

After reducing unpleasant symptoms, the diet expands, but dairy products are forbidden to use throughout life.

In the diet during an exacerbation must include eggs, meat, fish, occasionally cottage cheese, porridge (manga, rice), jelly, broth from berries.

Also, special attention should be paid to products containing vitamins A, K, C, group B, as well as calcium. Prohibited during the exacerbation of any fatty, fried foods, pickles, chocolate, spicy seasonings and sauces, mushrooms, legumes, plums.

Observe the therapeutic diet for a long time is not necessary, since such a diet will not help restore the disturbed metabolism and strength of the patient.

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Menu diet for ulcerative colitis

Sample menu with a tendency to constipation:

• Breakfast - vinaigrette with vegetable oil, pudding from cottage cheese, porridge buckwheat or vegetable salad, tea (for a snack - grinded fresh vegetables or fruits, several cookies).
• Lunch - vegetable soup, boiled meat, stewed vegetables, jelly (on the snack - boiled vegetables, cottage cheese or carrot puree).
• Supper - zrazy meat, vegetable casserole, pumpkin souffle, tea.

With a penchant for diarrhea, the menu is slightly different:

• Breakfast - steam cutlets, vegetable puree, tea (for snack - baked apple).
• Lunch - soup with mashed meat, mashed beetroot, steam cutlets. With a tendency to diarrhea, experts recommend that you exclude snacks between lunch and dinner.
• Dinner - buckwheat pudding, cottage cheese rubbed, rice porridge on water, baked apple.

Before going to bed you can drink jelly.

Useful recipes

Buckwheat pudding : 100 g of ready-made buckwheat, 2 eggs (separate proteins and yolks), butter 1 tablespoon, sugar to taste.

Porridge to grind in a blender with butter, yolks, sugar. Squirrels whisk separately into the foam and gently enter into the mixture of buckwheat and yolks. Put into the mold and bake until ready for 15-20 minutes.

Soup with egg flakes : diet broth 1L, 2-3 potatoes, onions, carrots, 2 eggs, greens.

Onion and carrots finely cut or grate, fry in oil, cut the potatoes and add to the boiling broth, after 5 minutes add onions and carrots.

Eggs to whip and gently enter into the soup, immediately, once the eggs are curled, remove the pan from the fire, if desired, you can add greens.

Soufflé from pumpkin : pumpkin 100g, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. Flour, butter creamy 40g, sugar 2 tbsp.

Pumpkin cut into small pieces, bake in the oven and grind in a blender. In the melted butter add flour and mix well, add sugar. Separate the proteins from the yolks, whip the whites into a foam. In pumpkin puree add the mixture with butter, yolks and mix well, then gently enter the proteins and shift the mixture into a mold. Bake at an average temperature of 20 minutes. Ready souffle can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

The diet for ulcerative colitis should be rather normalized than strict. With such a disease, you need to eat foods that contain the necessary nutrients and trace elements, starvation can only worsen the condition. It should be remembered that in colitis you need to eat warm food in grated form, in small portions. Also, the diet should not be too long, usually on the 6-8th day, experts recommend a little bit to return to the normal diet.