No one doubts the need for a diet for colitis, because this is the only way to maintain the proper functioning of the digestive and excretory organs. Colitis suggests two types of flow - in one case it is associated with diarrhea, in the other - with constipation, but it often happens that such two unpleasant phenomena replace one another and completely do not give a quiet life to a person.
Diet in colitis of intestines with diarrhea
Do not shift responsibility for your health only to medicines - as a rule, this is not enough. Diet with exacerbation of colitis in this case is necessary, and it is important to organize a full, balanced diet. Limit salt (up to 8-10 grams), cook food for a couple or bake in the oven, but avoid crusty crusts. Food is important to organize a fractional, 5-6 times a day in small portions.
Allows the diet for acute colitis following products:
- yesterday's bread, biscuits, dry biscuits;
- Soups on a weak broth with boiled cereals or heavily minced vegetables;
- dishes from low-fat varieties of meat, fish and poultry, best for a couple;
- vegetable purée, steam souffle;
- porridge with oil on water, except millet;
- soft-boiled eggs, steam omelettes;
- freshly prepared cottage cheese, curd pudding, vareniki;
- for dessert - jelly and compotes, baked apples, jelly, mousse of berries and fruits, marshmallows, pears, tea, broth of wild rose.
Intestinal colitis requires a diet in which there are very strict restrictions on a number of products:
- a number of vegetables: onions, garlic, mushrooms, horseradish, pepper, turnip, radish, cabbage, beans, rutabaga, radish, spinach, sorrel, beets;
- a number of fruits: grapes, plums, apricots;
- fresh bread, wholemeal bread, baking, pastry from puff pastry;
- eggs fried or hard boiled;
- soup from beans, borscht, milk soups, rassolnik;
- milk, sharp or salty varieties of cheese;
- fatty sorts of birds, meat, fish, as well as any sausages, smoked products, canned food;
- sweets: chocolate, ice cream, cakes;
- beverages: kvass, juices (plum, grape, apricot), alcoholic or carbonated drinks, coffee.
Diet for spastic colitis is required for the patient for 4-5 weeks, and sometimes 2-3 months. Only when the intestinal functions are completely restored, you can return to normal diet.
Diet for chronic colitis with constipation
Chronic colitis with constipation requires a strict and prolonged diet, which can restore the peristalsis of the colon. The basis of such a diet will be products that can stimulate the activity of the intestine from the inside.
Colitis of the intestine requires building a diet on foods rich in fiber and promoting health and relaxation of the intestine. These include:
- black bread from wholemeal and bread with bran;
- raw vegetables - especially beets, turnips, cauliflower, Jerusalem artichoke, white cabbage (both fresh and sour), pumpkin, carrots, zucchini, lettuce;
- fruits, berries and dried fruits - oranges, bananas, apples, tangerines, figs, apricots, prunes, dates, dried apricots, viburnum, black currants, blackberries, blueberries.
- any nuts;
- herring, other salted fish;
- lemonade, kvass, fruit drinks;
- dill, celery, bay leaf, parsley, cinnamon.
It is important to drink a glass of water every day with a slice of lemon, this will allow you to start the digestive system. Before going to bed it is recommended to take a glass of yogurt, mixed in a blender with nuts and prunes.
Do not resort to laxatives, such simple advice will help you without it, unless of course you are not prescribed by a doctor. Making your diet from these products, you will quickly come back to normal.