Slag-free Diet Before Colonoscopy: What Can You Eat And What Not?

2024 Author: Josephine Shorter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 02:10

Slag-free diet before colonoscopy

A slag-free diet is a method of medical nutrition, characterized by the consumption of foods that help to eliminate feces from the body and cleanse the intestines from toxins.

Before the colonoscopy, each patient is prescribed a slag-free diet. It must be strictly observed, otherwise the desired effect will not be achieved.

The main goal pursued by a slag-free diet is the maximum cleaning of the intestines from solid residues of undigested food, as well as the removal of mucus from its lumen. In addition to the fact that the intestines will be cleaned, its peristalsis will be restored, the metabolism will stabilize, and the general well-being improves. The fact is that not only the intestines themselves, but also the body as a whole are cleaned.

Content:

• Principles of a Slag-Free Diet
• Permitted and prohibited foods
• Exit the menu
• Indications for appointment
• Contraindications
• Pros and cons of a slag-free diet
• Nutritionist Comments

Principles of a Slag-Free Diet

A slag-free diet involves adherence to the following principles:

• The diet cannot last long, as it is unbalanced and is not able to cover all the needs of the human body.
• During the diet, be sure to drink as much water as possible, as well as replenish the reserves of vitamins and trace elements. It is important to provide the body with at least a small amount of energy.
• Products that are digested for a long time are excluded from the menu. Be sure to give up those foods that contain a lot of fiber.
• You need to eat mainly broths, liquid soups and cereals. It is permissible to eat a small amount of low-fat meat.
• You need to drink at least 1.5 liters of water per day, not taking into account liquid from soups, as well as broths.
• Salty and spicy foods should be prohibited.
• The method of cooking is steaming or boiling. You cannot fry food.
• Food should enter the stomach in small portions.
• 24 hours before the upcoming examination, you must completely refuse to take solid food. Acceptable meals: Vegetable-based liquid soup, tea with honey, juice diluted with water, low-fat kefir and yogurt.

Permitted and prohibited foods

Foods that can and cannot be eaten are presented in the table.

What you can't eat

What can you eat

Fresh vegetables: beets, radishes, cabbage, garlic, onions, radishes, carrots, legumes Fresh fruits: apples, grapes, bananas, peaches, apricots, oranges, tangerines Borodinsky and bran bread Cereals, except semolina Sorrel and spinach Any greens Korean-style seaweed or pickled Okroshka Borsch and cabbage soup - any dishes that contain fresh or boiled cabbage Milk soups Any mushrooms Marinades, sauces, pickles Chocolate Seeds and nuts Chips Any products that have passed the smoking procedure Fatty meat: lamb, duck, pork Fatty fish: herring, mackerel, crucian carp Baked goods containing poppy seeds, nuts, grains, coconut and other ingredients that take a long time to digest Milk Coffee, carbonated drinks, alcohol, kvass, sweet mineral water Fast food

Boiled vegetables and soups based on them Dried white bread, crackers, nut- and poppy-free pastry, biscuit biscuits Sour milk, fermented baked milk, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir Boiled chicken and quail eggs Some homemade mayonnaise Semolina porridge, but always liquid Fruit soufflés and mousses Diet meat and fish, boiled or steamed Cheese and butter, both vegetable and butter, but in small quantities Honey and jelly Compote, weak tea, still water, juice diluted with water, dried fruit jelly, coffee

Diet menu before colonoscopy

7-4 days before colonoscopy

First meal	Semolina Soft-boiled egg Tea with sugar
Snack before lunch	Cheese and baked apple (you need to grind it first)
Dinner	Soup with noodles in vegetable broth Steamed chicken breast fillet Tea with croutons and sugar
Last meal	Boiled vegetables in salad with olive oil dressing compote

2-3 days before colonoscopy

First meal	Semolina Soft-boiled egg Tea with sugar
Snack before lunch	Cheese and baked apple (you need to grind it first)
Dinner	Soup with noodles in vegetable broth Steamed chicken breast fillet Tea with croutons and sugar
Last meal	Boiled vegetables in salad with olive oil dressing compote

1 day before colonoscopy

First meal	Cottage cheese with 0% fat and coffee with sugar
Snack before lunch	Yogurt
Dinner	Soup with noodles in chicken broth Steamed minced turkey cutlets A glass of tea
Dinner	Kefir

Exiting the diet

You need to get out of a slag-free diet correctly so as not to harm your health. The release lasts about a week. If you do not follow the recommendations presented, then there is a high probability of developing constipation, the formation of fecal stones. There is even a threat that a person will have intestinal obstruction. In order for the body to smoothly adapt to its usual diet, it is necessary to introduce one product from the list of prohibited products into it every day. First, a person should eat vegetables, fruits and cereals, and then brown bread, fried and fatty foods can be added.

It is important to continue drinking enough water at this time so that the intestinal microflora recovers faster, it is recommended to take probiotics, which help to improve the digestion of food.

Indications for appointment

A slag-free diet can only be prescribed by a doctor and with a very specific purpose. The diet is designed to prepare the intestines for colonoscopy, so it aims to cleanse them. During the procedure, the organ will be examined by a doctor from the inside, so it must be absolutely clean. This diet is recommended for all patients undergoing colonoscopy.

Most often, your doctor will recommend starting your diet 3 days before your upcoming colonoscopy. However, provided that the patient has problems with the intestines or other organs of the digestive system, the diet can be started to be practiced a week before the upcoming manipulations. This will not only bring the stool back to normal, but also facilitate the excretion of feces.

Contraindications

The diet has practically no contraindications. It should be followed with caution by people with diabetes. Therefore, before starting the process of losing weight, you should consult your doctor. The fact is that patients with diabetes mellitus are prescribed medications containing insulin and they should receive them at a strictly defined time. Therefore, it is imperative to inform the doctor about your disease.

Pros and cons of a slag-free diet

Diet Pros:

• The diet does not require money.
• If you follow all the rules, you will be able to cleanse the intestines well and prepare for the upcoming procedure.

Cons of the diet:

• Some patients tolerate it rather difficult.
• If the nutritional rules are not followed, the colonoscopy will have to be performed again.

Nutritionist Comments

The diet is not balanced and very rigid. The body will be deprived of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. The person will start to experience dizziness, weakness, and malaise. You may experience an acute feeling of hunger. To improve your own well-being, you need to try to minimize the impact of stress factors on the body, not to overload it physically. During this period, you can not go in for sports, it is advisable to give up activities associated with mental overload.

Some women, in an effort to lose weight or "cleanse" the intestines, decide to resort to a slag-free diet. This cannot be done, since the diet is designed exclusively as a preparatory stage before colonoscopy. To lose weight, you need to spend fasting days on kefir, cottage cheese or vegetables.

Article author: Mochalov Pavel Alexandrovich | d. m. n. therapist

Education: Moscow Medical Institute. IM Sechenov, specialty - "General Medicine" in 1991, in 1993 "Occupational Diseases", in 1996 "Therapy".