Diet And Nutrition For Gallstones

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Diet and nutrition for gallstones

Content:

• What can and cannot be eaten?
• Diet for a week

With a disease in the gallbladder and, in particular, stones, there is an exacerbation of pain, a deterioration in appetite, very often nausea or even vomiting is manifested.

In this regard, experts recommend a menu, from which must be excluded:

• any kind of alcohol;
• fatty, sweet, carbohydrate-rich foods;
• fried foods.

The strictest diet for gallstones should be followed in the event of seizures, which are characterized by severe pain.

What can and cannot be eaten?

The menu should contain food of protein origin. This is due to the fact that the gallbladder regulates carbohydrate metabolism, but proteins are not able to overload it. Oils such as vegetable and butter are not recommended to be completely removed from the diet. It would be best to add it with cooked food. For example, in cereals or salads, slightly warmed up. In this case, the overcooked oil should be removed from the menu and in no case should it be used a second time.

The most correct way to cook cereals is those that are dietary. We are talking about oatmeal, rice or buckwheat. The most useful soups for gallstones are those made in broth using vegetables. They add finely chopped potatoes and grated vegetables; carrots, ripe zucchini, and pumpkin are best suited. But sour first courses, such as borscht or cabbage soup, will need to be abandoned, because they are harmful in case of problems with the gallbladder.

In order to normalize bowel function, it is advisable to eat according to a specific schedule:

• food should be eaten within a strictly set period of time;
• breaks between meals should be no more than three to four hours.

It is also important to consider that the diet should be supported by frequent drinking. After all, the gallbladder begins to regenerate, which cannot but be supported by significant fluid losses. In addition, it will be needed to stabilize the functioning of the intestines. Not very strong tea is allowed to drink.

Diet for a week

The serial number of the diet prescribed for gallstones, No. 5. Its first stage should be observed for 4-5 weeks, after which an examination is carried out. An even longer diet may be prescribed depending on the results. The recommended diet for the week is as follows.

Monday

• The first breakfast includes 120 g of buckwheat porridge boiled in water, tea with a small slice of lemon and wheat bran - no more than 100 g.
• Further, after three to four hours, you should consume 100 g of grated carrots. It is also necessary to add no more than five ml of vegetable oil there.

• As lunch, you should prepare 250 ml of low-fat borscht, in which you should definitely add a decoction of bran. After that, experts advise to use millet porridge with dried apricots, which would be best washed down with 100 ml of a rosehip-based broth.
• An ideal afternoon snack for gallstones is 100 ml of apricot juice. It is recommended to prepare all juices yourself.

Tuesday

On the second day of dieting, it is recommended to eat 150 grams of cottage cheese pudding, followed by tea with lemon, but without sugar. A few hours later - 100 ml of broth made from rose hips.

A perfect lunch would be like this:

• 200 g of oatmeal cooked in milk;
• tea with lemon.

A few hours before going to bed, you need to eat no more than 50 g of pre-soaked prunes.

Wednesday

• As a breakfast, 100 g of vegetable salad (any vegetables except cabbage are suitable) and 100 ml of rosehip broth are ideal. The next breakfast should include only 150 g of carrot juice and a small amount of bran bread - 50 g.
• For lunch, it is advisable to boil vegetable cabbage soup and prepare a special bran broth. Also, along with them, you should eat boiled meat and stew beets with the addition of vegetable oil. For dessert, 100 g of apples are allowed.
• An ideal and hearty dinner on this day will be buckwheat meatballs, a little 50 g of cottage cheese and sweetened tea.

Thursday

The first meal of the day should include 125 grams of bran bread and 100 ml of carrot juice. Second breakfast means 250 g of wheat porridge, which should be cooked in milk and 150 g of grated carrots. All of this is recommended to be consumed with sweet tea with lemon.

Ideal for lunch:

• 250 g of oat soup using various vegetables, finely chopped;
• broth with bran;
• 85 g of lean chicken or fillet, from which you need to prepare 200 g of cutlets with the addition of cabbage.

All this should be washed down with 200 ml of broth, based on rosehip. An ideal dinner would be 100 g of soaked dried apricots. They should be washed down with 100 ml of broth based on rye bran.

Friday

• An ideal breakfast is 100 g of apples, which must be finely chopped beforehand. Then, after a few hours, you need to consume 250 g of bran bread and green tea with lemon, to which you should add no more than 30 g of sugar.
• Lunch should be composed of 150 g of cottage cheese dumplings and 200 g of cutlets, which should be prepared not only from apples, but also from cabbage. It is recommended to drink it all with tea.
• It would be best to skip dinner on this day, but before going to bed, drink 100 ml of self-prepared tomato juice.

Saturday

• For breakfast, 100 g of salad fruits (any fruit, except citrus fruits) and 120 ml of rosehip broth will do well.
• Second breakfast is 150 g of carrot juice and a small amount of bran bread - no more than 100 g.
• Lunch should consist of 250 ml of vegetable borsch, to which a bran-based broth should be added.

For dinner, nutritionists recommend:

• rice porridge with dried apricots;
• 100 ml of rosehip broth.

Sunday

• The first breakfast is 150 g of buckwheat porridge boiled in milk, tea with lemon and sugar and rye bran, but no more than 100 g. Then you should consume 100 ml of carrot juice and bran bread.
• For lunch, you should use boiled meat and stewed beets with the addition of olive oil.
• The correct dinner on the seventh day of the diet should be considered 100 g of soaked dried apricots, which should be washed down with 100 ml of a decoction of wheat bran.

The diet presented here should help those diagnosed with gallstones.

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The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).