Gastric Bypass Diet
Nisan 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Do you know anything about bypass diet? Bypass diet is a diet for people who had gastric bypass surgery. These patient must be carefull on their diets. Some foods can shorten the convalescence period and some foods can get longer. Therefore, nutrition is so critical for those patients.
A post gastric bypass diet is essentially the diet plan a patient is required to stick with after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. In the early weeks, the diet is very restrictive because the stomach is sensitive and not able to hold many solid foods after being cut open and stitched back together. Liquids are generally the first thing offered on the diet, followed by light solids and eventually progressing to a low fat diet plan.
The first 24 hours after surgery, the post gastric bypass diet is usually made up of clear liquids. This includes water, apple juice, flat sodas, broths, sugar-free, and sometimes orange juice. These restrictions are to get the stomach used to holding food and liquids again by introducing it to things that are easy to digest.
After the initial “breaking in” phase, the next portion of the post gastric bypass diet allows consumption of semi-solid foods. These can include things like soups, hot cereals that have been thinned with milk, yogurt, and blenderized meat with mashed potatoes. All food should be no thicker in consistency than thinned mashed potatoes. Sometimes doctors will recommend adding milk powder to all food in order to add extra protein.
More solid foods will be added back to the diet slowly, making sure that they are low in fat and calories. Eventually, the patient will be eating six small meals a day. Since the stomach has been made smaller, larger meals are more likely to cause digestive upset as well as to stretch the stomach. This could result in weight gain if eating is not controlled.
Stomach upset is common in the weeks following surgery. For this reason, the post gastric bypass diet heavily restricts foods with high amounts of sugars and alcohol because these may cause vomiting and diarrhea. Patients should not be surprised if foods they normally love no longer agree with them. This problem often remedies itself with the passage of time. Any severe digestive upset and pain should be reported to a doctor immediately.
In most cases the post gastric bypass diet ends with a sensible low fat eating plan. Maintaining the habit of eating six small meals a day is still recommended, but it is no longer a requirement so long as calorie restrictions are still being maintained. Patients should remember that the stomach can eventually be stretched again and weight will come back if dietary guidelines are not met on a consistent enough basis.
You can offer this diet to people you know who had operation, or you can follow if you will have. Health is important and all the people must care about their health. And diet and nutrition are two of the most important topics that affect human health.
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