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Rectal cancer postoperative diet

BY Paula Lowell 2020-07-24

How to eat and drink after rectal tumor surgery? All patients with colorectal cancer have to face a very common problem after surgery. They do not know what to eat and what to eat, and how to adjust their diet. In fact, developing a good eating habit has a very important role in the recovery of the patient''s condition. Inappropriate diets often bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to patients after surgery. Based on this, a reasonable postoperative diet plan is now shared with everyone, hoping to bring help to all patients.

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     1. Fasting after surgery, gastrointestinal decompression until intestinal peristalsis recovers, you can eat. The diet should be progressive.
   2. After 3 to 4 days of fasting after surgery, wait for intestinal peristalsis to recover. After artificial anus exhausts, there will be bubbles overflowing from the stoma. It can be fed into the liquid diet. The food selected should be easy to digest and nutritious, such as vegetable soup , Rice soup, etc. It is best to eat less and eat more meals every 2 to 3 hours, 6 to 7 meals a day.
  3. After a week, you can enter a semi-liquid diet, choose foods containing many proteins and low cellulose, such as noodles, porridge, etc., should also eat a small number of meals, 5 to 6 meals per day.
  4. Two weeks later, you can eat easily digestible, low-dregs common food, fasting coarse grains and fiber-rich vegetables, such as celery, leek, etc., to reduce the intestinal burden. Here, we should remind you not to eat stuffed food, such as dumplings, buns, leeks boxes, etc. Many patients have symptoms of intestinal obstruction after surgery. Most people who have a medical history have eaten such foods.
  5. After discharge, patients should eat a balanced diet that is easy to digest and nutritious. Life diet rules, usually pay attention to diet hygiene, do not eat raw, cold, hard, fried, preserved food, taboo tobacco and alcohol, develop regular Good habits for bowel movements.

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