Diet For Cystitis - What Can You Eat And What Not? Diet Menu

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Diet for cystitis

Content:

• Diet principles for cystitis
• Diet during the acute phase of cystitis
• What foods are banned?
• Sample menu for the day

A diet for cystitis is a specially selected nutritional regimen, which is based on the elimination of inflammation from damaged tissues of the bladder. It is based on the introduction of light foods and adherence to a certain drinking regime.

Diet principles for cystitis

In order to achieve the maximum therapeutic effect, it is important to be guided by the following principles when compiling a dietary food:

• Foods and drinks must be diuretic;
• Salt should be removed from the diet to the maximum;
• Any spicy food will be prohibited;
• Protein content should be minimized;
• Fats should be excluded;
• Sugar and any substitutes must be removed from the menu;
• Diet should not cause constipation;
• The processing of all products should be minimal, frying, smoking, canning is prohibited.

Diet during the acute phase of cystitis

Exacerbation of the disease in any form, accompanied by severe pain and frequent urge to empty the inflamed organ. Most often, it lasts no more than a week, so at this time the diet should be especially strict. It is important to ensure maximum urinary tract lavage, which will help eliminate any pathogen.

Therefore, the power supply scheme should be built on the following rules:

• The liquid you drink should not be less than 2000 ml. It is advisable to bring its daily volume up to 2500 ml. It should be not only ordinary, but also chloride-calcium mineral water. In addition, fruit compotes without added sugar, vegetable juices are useful. Pumpkin juice has an excellent diuretic effect. Berry fruit drinks based on lingonberries and cranberries help to relieve inflammation.
• Vegetables such as cucumbers, zucchini, spinach, pumpkin, carrots are useful. From fruits, pomegranate and pear should be present on the table. Depending on the season, you can eat watermelons. All this plant food has a diuretic, and therefore a healing effect.
• Once a day, you can drink herbal tea with a spoonful of honey, which has an anti-inflammatory effect. Lingonberry leaves, corn silk, green tea leaves can be used as a basis for tea.

• The menu should not include dairy products. This is due to their high calcium and fat content. It is allowed to consume once a day a small portion of cottage cheese, natural yogurt, low-fat and unsalted cheese or milk of your choice.
• During the manifestation of the disease, it is worth giving up meat products and fish. With their subsequent gradual introduction. Preference should be given to lean meats and river fish.
• Constipation can be prevented by eating vegetables. Cabbage is useful, and any of its varieties. You can add bran, cereals made from whole grains to the diet.
• It is allowed to season salads with vegetable or olive oil. You can eat a handful of pine nuts once a day.

What foods are banned?

In order not to provoke an exacerbation of the disease, it is important to avoid certain foods and drinks. It is prohibited to use during illness:

• Fruits containing a large amount of fruit acids. They irritate the inflamed mucosa and prevent it from healing. Among these fruits, apples, lemons, oranges, pineapples, melons, avocados and peaches are especially dangerous.
• Vinegar and all dishes containing it. Even when the disease subsides, it can provoke its exacerbation. Therefore, it is not recommended to use it even after a complete cure, especially for people prone to relapses.
• Various sauces, the most popular being mayonnaise, soy sauce, and ketchup. They are contraindicated due to their high fat and salt content. In addition, mayonnaise contains eggs, mustard and vinegar, which are prohibited during illness.
• Sugar in its pure form and products containing it in large quantities. This is due to the fact that microbacteria begin to eat it in the body. Their reproduction increases, in parallel, the dose of toxins secreted by them increases. They, in turn, exacerbate the symptoms of the disease and prevent recovery.
• Any canned food should not be present on the table of a person suffering from cystitis. The same applies to smoked meats, sausages, bacon.
• Alcoholic drinks. Any alcohol removes fluid from the body, which leads to dehydration. The urine becomes more concentrated and more irritates the inflamed organ.
• Coffee and strong tea. The effects of these drinks are similar to those of alcohol. For a while, it is worth refusing to brew cocoa.
• Any sugary and carbonated drinks, tomato juice, energy drinks.
• Some vegetables are banned. You should stop consuming asparagus, tomatoes and beans. Do not add onions, radishes, radishes, sorrel, garlic, horseradish to food. All these vegetables contribute to additional irritation of the inflamed bladder.

Sample menu for the day

Taking into account the basic recommendations of doctors, you can independently make a menu that will not harm the patient. In the morning, it is allowed to eat any cereal porridge. For lunch, vegetable soups, salads with vegetable oil dressing and steamed meat dishes are prepared. Dinner should be light and consist mainly of vegetables permitted for consumption.

The menu for one day can consist of the following dishes:

• For breakfast, you can cook porridge in water, a sandwich with unsalted cheese. Herbal tea based on lingonberry leaves is suitable as a drink.
• A baked pear can be used as a snack.
• For lunch, prepare beetroot soup, steamed pike perch cutlets. Stewed broccoli can be used as a side dish. The drink is cranberry juice.
• At an afternoon snack, you can eat baked pumpkin, drink a glass of green tea.
• For dinner, vinaigrette, pasta and boiled lean meat are prepared.

It is important not to forget about the proper drinking regime, using mineral water.

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).