Importance of dieting with ulcerative colitis of the intestine

A diet with ulcerative colitis helps to restore the covering of the large intestine and accelerate the healing process.

A strict diet lasts approximately 4 weeks, and then the nutritional restrictions gradually soften and the patient returns to his usual eating regimen.

So, what are the characteristics of this disease and what kind of food should be observed?

What is the course of the disease?

Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory-dystrophic lesion of the colon when ulcers, erosions and hemorrhages appear on the mucous organ.

Symptoms of the disease manifest outside the bowel, in addition, the disease can lead to a variety of complications.

Even when the symptoms of the disease recede after therapy, the patient should continue to restore the food processing processes and mucous membranes of the body for a long time.

Nutrition with ulcerative colitis helps prolong the period of remission and alleviate the symptoms of the disease.

Even small digressions from the diet menu will lead to aggravation of the disease and worsening of the patient's condition.

Nonspecific colitis affects only the large intestine, and the lesion never passes to the site of the small intestine.

To date, doctors have not found out what causes inflammation of the intestine, but there are factors that cause disturbances in the body's immune response and can contribute to the development of the disease:

• genetic experts have noticed that the disease can be transmitted from father to son, in addition, changes inSome genes can also trigger disease;
• infectious - according to doctors, in the first place to cause disease can pathogenic organisms. In addition, the excessive immune response of the human body to non-pathogenic bacteria can also give impetus to the development of the disease;
• autoimmune - scientists believe that various external and internal factors can cause an allergy in the body with an autoimmune reaction, in which the integument covers begin to produce an antigen. As a result of this process inflammation occurs on the intestinal mucosa;
• emotional - the effect of this factor is not fully proven, but some experts believe that there is a direct link between emotional upheavals and exacerbation of the disease.

Features of the

diet With a very severe bowel disease, the patient's diet should be minimized.

In case of an exacerbation of the intestine, the first couple of days the patient should completely stop eating and drink a minimum amount of water. To replenish supplies of proteins and fluids, doctors prescribe a dropper to the patient.

Diet with ulcerative colitis excludes the use of protein, which is in milk, you can include only oil in the patient's menu.

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Treat dishes for the patient's menu with water or steam. Food should be pleasant temperature, not chilled and not hot.

The patient needs to eat at least 5 times a day, and the last snack - no later than 19 hours. Portions need to be made small so that the food processing system can fulfill its task and cope with the disease.

Diet for ulcerative colitis must necessarily contain meat and fish without fat, stewed, boiled or processed with steam. Liquid dishes are usually made only on the basis of loose broths without fat.

In addition, the patient can eat vegetarian soups with cereals and vegetables. Varied first dishes with bowel disease can be meatballs, boiled meat, potatoes.

Nutrition of individuals with intestinal colitis should be rich in foods that positively affect intestinal motility.

In addition, substances with astringent and tanning effects that the body receives with broths of cornel, pears, quinces, and kissels will be useful.

It is allowed in case of illness strong green and black tea, cocoa without milk. Also the menu can contain soups and porridges of a viscous consistency, however it is necessary to exclude buckwheat, as it raises peristalsis of the organ.

The weakened body with ulcerative colitis of the intestine should be provided with the right amount of protein, so the menu should be enriched with meat, cottage cheese, fish. The daily diet of the patient should include 200 to 250 grams of carbohydrates, 120 to 125 grams of protein and 55 to 60 grams of fat.

It is important that the diet contains the minimum amount of substances with fiber. During periods of easing symptoms, the patient can eat some vegetables only in small amounts - onions, cauliflower, zucchini, carrots.

Menu should not contain citrus, tomatoes, grapes, but you can eat apples, pears, pomegranates and blueberries, if the patient normally tolerates them.

A patient's diet may contain poultry, fish or meat, of which it is best to cook casseroles, soufflé or puddings. Garnish can be made from rice, wheat.

Also, several times a week a patient can prepare an omelet or boil eggs. The menu can contain stale bread, biscuit biscuits.

Variety of nutrition in case of intestinal damage can be sour-milk products - sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese without spices.

The role of snacks is served by ham, sausage products without fat and spices, jellied fish or meat, liver pate, herring.

Smoked foods, marinades, raw onions, radishes, sorrel, and other foods corrosive to the digestive organs are strictly forbidden in colon colitis.

You should also remove pepper, horseradish, mustard, vinegar from the menu. In addition, strictly prohibited chocolate, legumes, mushrooms, spicy, fatty and fried foods.

If colitis is complicated by diarrhea, the patient should eat bread, crackers, boiled squash, potatoes, pumpkin, veal and chicken.

Also when diarrhea is affected by diarrhea, it is allowed to eat boiled bream and cod, boiled soft boiled eggs, omelet in the oven or steamed. Diversify the menu can be puddings from cottage cheese, kissels, mousses, compotes, marshmallows.

Sample menu

Each specialist will prescribe his personal nutrition to his patient. Consider several common options for the patient's diet.

1 option:

• for breakfast should eat porridge from rice with a steam cutlet, tea. You can put oil in porridge;
• snack - 40 grams of steamed meat, berry jelly;
• dinner - soup with potatoes and meatballs, casserole from rice and minced meat, Uzvar;
• snack - tea and cracker;
• dinner - puree of potatoes with cutlet from fish to steamed, tea;
• before bed - apple baked, and throughout the day allowed 200 grams of bread.

Option 2:

• breakfast - sweet curd with sour cream, semolina with butter with water or milk, juice or a drink from rose hips;
• snack - baked apple, cracker, tea;
• lunch - vermicelli soup, a roll of potatoes and meat, apple jelly;
• snack - briar infusion, bread;
• dinner - mashed potatoes with cutlet, tea with biscuit;
• before bedtime rusk and juice.

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The diet with ulcerative colitis is very gentle on the mucous membranes of the intestine, excluding any aggressive products that can provoke an exacerbation.

Please be aware that it is only necessary to make changes to the menu after consulting a doctor, but not on your own.