Diet in diseases of biliary tract
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Successful treatment largely depends on the diet and lifestyle of the patient, so a diet for diseases of the biliary tract is one of the main factors of effective control of the disease.
To the pathologies of bile ducts include diseases such as calculous disease and its aggravation (colic), cholangitis and cholecystitis in acute or chronic form. The most common is a combined disease, such as calculous cholecystitis - the formation of stones in an inflamed gallbladder.
Nutrition for diseases of the biliary tract
Nutrition for acute and chronic form of cholecystitis is somewhat different. At an exacerbation the food should be as much as possible easy and sparing, not having a big loading on work of digestive system. The first day should be excluded from food, completely switching to herbal teas: chamomile, dog rose, currant, linden. The next day may use mucous soups and mashed cereals, loose broths with the addition of rice, oatmeal, barley or wheat cereals.
The medical table with cholecystitis is recommended at number 5.
Chronic cholecystitis outside the stage of exacerbation involves eating foods that help improve the separation of bile and lower cholesterol. Absolutely exclude sugar from food, introduce a sufficient amount of fiber. In acute periods, they switch to food, reminiscent of a fasting day: it can be kefir, rice, watermelon day.
To improve the flow of bile, food should become frequent, but uninvolved, the so-called fractional - up to 8 times a day. This will significantly reduce the burden on the gallbladder.
Drinking regimen requires the use of a sufficient amount of liquid in the form of pure water, tea, compotes. Should be avoided highly carbonated mineral water, effervescent drinks, and even more so alcohol.
What is the diet for diseases of the biliary tract?
Inadequate and unbalanced nutrition is of decisive importance in the etiology of the development of inflammation in the biliary tract. Fried, pickled, fatty and spicy dishes, rich in cholesterol and lipids, overeating and irregular eating strongly affect the quality of biochemical processes in the body. This contributes to the formation of sand and stones from inorganic and organic substances that accumulate in the gall bladder and ducts. If the food is balanced, the metabolic processes proceed normally and no deposits are formed.
Diet in the pathologies of the gall bladder means reducing the number of foods with cholesterol and increasing the number of plant components in food. It should be removed from the diet of fatty foods (meaning animal fats), alcohol, limit the amount of salt, pepper, spices, avoid the use of strong coffee and carbonated drinks. It is not recommended, both to starve and overeat - the liver is very sensitive to the imbalance of food intake. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack and dinner - the minimum number of meals. There is a need for small portions, rising from the table, without waiting for a sense of satiety. Snacks should consist of any fruit or vegetable non-calorie salad.
Water should be consumed about 2 liters per day between meals, and not during it. Carbonated water can be drunk, pre-defending it from carbon dioxide. Preference should be given to alkaline mineral waters: Truskavetskaya, Morshinskaya, Borzhomi, Nabeglavi, and others.
Menu diet for diseases of the bile duct
An approximate menu option for the pathology of the gallbladder and ducts is as follows:
- Breakfast - cottage cheese casserole from low-fat cottage cheese, egg and honey proteins, tea from a dogrose.
- A snack is a fruit salad with honey or yoghurt.
- Lunch - rice soup with grated tomatoes, baked chicken breast with vegetables, green tea.
- Snack - compote of fruits and berries with crackers.
- Dinner - potato-carrot casserole with sour cream, herbal tea.
- At night - a glass of yogurt.
The second option:
- Breakfast - a protein steam omelet, a slice of yesterday's bread, fruit juice.
- Snack - an apple or a pear.
- Lunch - soup-puree from zucchini, buckwheat with fish steamed meatballs, tomato juice.
- Snack - oatmeal cookies, yoghurt.
- Dinner - baked in a foil fish with vegetables, tea.
- At night - a glass of yogurt.
The third option:
- Breakfast - rice pudding with strawberry jam, herbal tea.
- Snack is an apple baked with cottage cheese.
- Lunch - vegetable soup, pilaf with chicken, compote of berries.
- Afternoon snack - fruit salad with Greek yoghurt.
- Dinner - fish casserole with vegetable salad, tea from a dogrose.
- At night - tea with milk.
Products for dietary nutrition are mainly cooked in a double boiler, cooked or baked in an oven or microwave oven. Fried dishes irritate the digestive tract, so their use is excluded.
Dishes should be nedosalivat, consuming no more than 8-10 grams of salt per day.
Despite the rich composition of the menu, portions of dishes should be small, you do not have to eat up to a feeling of satiety. Overeating increases the load on the gallbladder and intensifies the pain.
Diet in diseases of bile ducts consists of high-grade products, which serve as a basis for rational balanced nutrition. Such nutrition is shown not only in the presence of disease, but also as prevention of pathologies and exacerbations of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
What can you eat with diseases of the bile ducts?
- lean meat dishes cooked in a double boiler or in an oven (do not fry), mostly from chicken, turkey, veal;
- milk products, non-acidic sour milk, fresh yogurt, cottage cheese, unsalted cheese (soaked), low-fat kinds of cheeses, fermented baked milk, yogurt;
- egg whites in the form of omelets or cooked;
- non-acidic fresh fruits and berries (pears, sweet varieties of apples, melons, watermelons, strawberries, strawberries);
- vegetable crops (potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, zucchini, beets, celery);
- bread only in the form of biscuits, toast; fresh pastry banned;
- the amount of vegetable oil in the daily diet should be limited to 25 ml per day, creamy - up to 20 g;
- cereal cereals (oatmeal, rice, semolina, buckwheat);
- macaroni, vermicelli;
- honey, non-acidic jam, jam;
- fish cooked in a double boiler, or boiled;
- milk or vegetable soup.
Diet recipes for diseases of the biliary tract can be applied to other diseases of the digestive tract: gastritis, enterocolitis, pancreatitis. The purpose of such a diet is to minimize the load on the digestive system and liver, stimulate bile secretion, restore metabolism. In chronic and calculous form of the disease, it is recommended to follow this type of food constantly, so as not to provoke an exacerbation of the disease.
What can not be eaten with diseases of the bile ducts?
To reduce the burden on the biliary system and digestion in general, the following products should be excluded from the daily menu:
- fatty soups, borscht and strong broths;
- saturated fats of animal origin;
- egg yolk;
- fresh baked goods, including muffins;
- salty products (chips, crackers, ram, sausages);
- Smoked meat (lard, fish, meat, cheese);
- sauce mayonnaise, ketchup, adzhika, satsibeli;
- sugar;
- strong coffee, chocolate, cakes, pastries;
- by-products;
- plants containing oxalic acid (rhubarb, spinach, parsley);
- legumes (lentils, peas, beans, soybeans).
The food should be moderate (not too hot and not from the refrigerator).
In cases where the gallbladder was removed, this diet will have to be observed all life. This is easy and with time should become a habit:
- Eliminate fatty foods, spicy seasonings and fried foods;
- Do not eat too much for one sitting (there is a need to gradually every 2-3 hours);
- not to starve (you can only arrange easy days of unloading on rice porridge, or kefir);
- avoid drinking alcohol in any way.
Over time, when the digestive system comes back to normal, the diet can be slightly expanded, after consulting with the doctor.