Diet For Intestinal Infection - What Can You Eat And What Not?

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Diet for intestinal infection

A diet for an intestinal infection is a prerequisite that must be observed for the speedy recovery of the body. Diet food for intestinal damage by pathogenic flora is a mandatory item in the treatment of the disease. With intestinal infections, the entire digestive system suffers. During diarrhea and vomiting, not only water is excreted from the body, but nutrients that it needs to maintain normal life.

These substances need to be replenished, but in such a way that the digestive organs are able to cope with the incoming volumes of food. In fact, the intestinal infection diet is an essential part of symptomatic therapy that cannot be ignored.

Content:

• How can diets treat intestinal infections?
• What diet is indicated for intestinal infections for adults?
• Diet rules
• Diet for intestinal infections in a child
• What can you eat during intestinal infections?
• What should not be eaten during intestinal infections?
• Features of compiling a menu for intestinal infection

How can diets treat intestinal infections?

Regardless of which pathogenic microorganism triggered the development of the disease, therapy should be started with a complete rejection of food. This means that during the acute stage of the disease, an adult can only drink water or rehydration solutions.

If the disease is not too severe, then the use of sweet black tea is permissible - no more than 1.2 liters per day. At the same time, a person should drink about 2.5 liters of water per day or even more. Perhaps the use of rice broth passed through a sieve, rosehip or blueberry infusion. All these drinks, in addition to replenishing the removed volumes of liquid, are sources of vitamins and nutrients that the body needs so much. Blueberries and rice water have the ability to bind harmful substances and remove them from the body, which allows you to quickly cope with the infection.

On the first day of illness, you can drink drinks that reduce vomiting. This can be a mint infusion or homemade lemonade. To do this, knead a lemon in a glass, pour it with hot boiled water and insist for a quarter of an hour. A teaspoon of honey is added to the drink. Such a drink is offered to the patient every 20 minutes, 2 tablespoons. When the acute phase of the disease is completed, you can proceed to the use of foods, but taking into account certain features of their choice and preparation.

What diet is indicated for intestinal infections for adults?

If a person is admitted to the hospital, then there he is assigned a dietary table No. 4. This is a system of therapeutic nutrition, which is built in such a way that it does not load the digestive system, but saturates the body with nutrients.

The objectives of table 4 are:

• Sparing the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. Moreover, the sparing will be both chemical and mechanical.
• Reducing the degree of the body's inflammatory response.
• Reducing fermentation and putrefactive processes in the intestines.
• Restoration of the intestinal performance, regeneration of its mucous membrane.

The menu is complete and balanced. It has a sufficient amount of protein, and carbohydrates and fats are slightly reduced. During intestinal infections, it is necessary to somewhat limit the use of table salt.

All products are offered to the patient in a semi-liquid or liquid consistency. Dishes should not be hot or cold. Acceptable ways of processing food - cooking and steaming. Before serving, be sure to grind or grind coarse food in another way. A person eats 5-6 times a day.

The average daily calorie content is equal to 1980 kcal. Salt should not be consumed more than 10 g per day. After the patient feels better, he is transferred to diet No. 4B, which involves a daily increase in the energy value of meals up to 3000 kcal. In this case, the dishes can already be cooked in the oven and stewed. However, food bans remain similar.

Diet rules

In order for the patient to recover at a rapid pace, the following diet rules must be observed:

1. Dishes should be easily digestible, they should not irritate the intestinal and stomach mucous membrane, as well as strain the pancreas.
2. Dishes can be boiled or steamed
3. Before serving, products are ground or mashed.
4. The optimum temperature for food is 33-36 ° C.
5. The optimal portion is 150-300 g, depending on the age and weight of the patient, as well as on the state of his health.

Diet for intestinal infections in a child

The general principles of a child's nutrition during intestinal infections are similar to those by which an adult patient eats. However, the age of the baby must be taken into account.

Children at the time of illness are no longer given dairy products, although at normal times they must be present on the menu. The fact is that milk contains milk sugar - lactose. Its splitting and digestion occurs in the small intestine, the work of which is disrupted. With a bacterial infection, milk sugar will begin to ferment in the intestines, which will provoke an increase in gas formation, bloating and pain attacks.

If a child of the first year is exposed to an intestinal infection and at the same time he is artificially fed, the usual milk formula must be replaced with a lactose-free formula.

If a woman is breastfeeding a baby, then you can limit it a little in milk, but not more than 40%. It contains antibodies that help the body of the crumbs to cope with the disease. At the same time, you need to breastfeed your baby more often, but in small portions. You should not force the baby to suckle, you need to focus on his appetite.

If a child has already reached the age when milk or formula is not the basis of his diet, then he should adhere to the same diet as an adult patient with an intestinal infection.

Indicative menu for a child with intestinal infection:

• Semolina or semi-liquid rice porridge on water. Rice grits should be rubbed. A glass of sweet tea and a wheat flour crouton.
• In between breakfast and lunch, the patient is offered a glass of jelly and a crouton.
• For lunch, the child can eat beef-based broth, crackers and meat soufflé. Complement lunch with a glass of rosehip broth.
• Blackcurrant jelly is eaten during an afternoon snack.
• Dinner can be represented by grated oatmeal and steamed chicken cutlet. Before going to bed, it is good to drink a glass of apple compote.

What can you eat during intestinal infections?

The menu should include the following foods and dishes:

• Wheat flour bread, but not fresh, but yesterday's, slightly dried. Dry biscuits, uncomfortable pastries.
• Soups based on weak fish or meat broth. Vegetables should be finely chopped, meat should be grated. You can make soup with meatballs, croutons, or noodles.
• The meat is served in the form of soufflé, cutlets, meatballs, minced meat rolls. It can be low-fat varieties of red meat, rabbit meat, chicken, turkey. You can cook pate from meat.
• Porridge should be viscous. They are boiled in water without adding milk.
• The menu may include soft-boiled eggs, steam omelet, noodles.
• Boiled buckwheat and rice, boiled potatoes, pumpkin, carrots are used as a side dish. You can make mashed potatoes, stews or caviar from vegetables.
• You can eat curd puddings, fresh curd, curd paste.
• Two times a day, it is allowed to use 100 ml of kefir.
• You can add a small amount of butter to dishes or bread
• Allowed jelly, dried fruit decoctions, rosehip decoction.
• You can drink tea with marmalade, honey or jam.

If the body does not give a negative reaction, then in the patient's menu it is allowed to introduce fresh tomatoes (it is important that they are ripe), cauliflower, carrots, baked apples, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries. You can put a little sour cream in soups. In this case, it is necessary to carefully monitor the patient's well-being and, if it worsens, return to the original dietary menu.

What should not be eaten during intestinal infections?

The following foods and dishes should be excluded from the menu:

• Black bread and fresh bread made from wheat flour.
• All raw vegetables and fruits, as they are sources of coarse dietary fiber. His intestines will not be able to digest.
• Mushrooms and fresh herbs.
• Pearl barley, millet and corn grits.
• Salt restriction - up to 10 g per day.
• Vegetable oil.
• Carbonated drinks.
• High concentration of meat, vegetable and fish broths.
• Sausage, smoked products, animal fats.
• Fatty red meat, fatty poultry (duck, goose). Chicken eggs cannot be eaten fried or boiled.
• Preserved products.
• Whole milk, spicy cheese.
• Cream, pastry creams, sour cream.
• Legumes in any form, white cabbage.
• Dumplings and dumplings.
• Sauces.
• Strong coffee, carbonated drinks, chocolate, spirits.
• Ice cream.

Features of compiling a menu for intestinal infection

Since the list of permitted products is quite impressive, you can cook tasty and varied. It is imperative to take into account the permissible methods of culinary and thermal processing of products.

It is recommended to alternate protein dishes, since almost all patients with intestinal infections have a decreased appetite.

The diet provides sparing of the mucous membrane of the digestive system, does not provoke fermentation processes in the intestine. Its peristalsis will be adequate, but not excessive. The products on the menu must be fresh. They are designed to provide a detoxification and rehydration effect.

It should be noted that the presented dietary menu is not suitable for the nutrition of healthy people, since it cannot fully provide the human body with the useful substances it needs. The diet is prescribed for a short period. As he recovers, the patient is transferred to a common table.

During the recovery period, pectin-containing vegetables and fruits must be added to the menu. It should be apples, carrots, blueberries. Before serving, bring them to a puree state. Pectin enters the intestines, absorbs moisture and mucus, swells and forms a foamy substance that resembles a sponge. Passing through the intestines, pectin fibers absorb (adsorb) toxins, pathogenic bacteria, and undigested food residues. In addition, the fruit contains organic acids that have a bactericidal effect. Do not forget that fruits and vegetables are sources of vitamins and minerals. At the stage of recovery from illness, they are extremely necessary for the body.

During an intestinal infection, it is important not only to take medications prescribed by a doctor, but also to adhere to a correctly compiled menu. It is important to focus on the phase of the disease, as well as on the patient's appetite. It will be much easier for the body to get rid of an intestinal infection if a person helps him with this and does not burden the digestive organs with heavy food.

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).