Tet diet for patients with colitis

People with chronic colitis often have "sensitive" intestinal mucosa, so pay attention to the diet so that there is no trouble during the holiday season.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam, nutrition expert of National Nutrition Institute, chronic colitis occurs after infection, parasitic infection in the intestine. In addition, the disease may progress due to emotional anxiety, stress.

When food is encountered, excessive "sensitive" intestinal mucosa often causes pain in the lower abdomen, along the colon. The feeling of pain increases when eating, before defecating. Even, the disease also causes digestive disorders, defecation.

The calf must eat abstinence, easily suffer from abdominal pain, go outside. This is no small nuisance, especially during Tet.

Patients with colitis need to abstain from eating.(Photo: Everydayhealth).

According to Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thi Lam, on Tet holiday, people with chronic colitis need to remember the principle of building a diet as follows:

1. Prioritize low-fat foods such as lean meat and lean fish.When eating fishy foods such as shrimp, crabs, fish, eggs should use a little and immediately after processing.Protein intake recommended 1g / kg / day.Fat should not exceed 15 g / day.
2. Drink enough water, eat yogurt, drink milk without lactose.The patient has almost no benefits to secrete lactase to digest lactose into glucose.If you drink milk with lactose, the intestinal tract immediately "chases" the stranger, causing a phenomenon of abdominal boils, cramps and defecation.
3. Eat leafy greens: vegetables, spinach, vegetables . But only pick up the vegetables to eat.
4. When cooking food should be steamed or boiled, limited fried.

The following foods should be avoided:

1. Eggs, fried spring rolls, fatty meat, black beans, raw onions, pickled pickles.
2. Alcohol, coffee, carbonated soft drinks because these foods cause bloating, bloating.
3. Milk has lactose, too sweet fruit, honey to avoid diarrhea and flatulence.
4. Raw vegetables, corn seeds, bamboo shoots are foods that adversely affect ulcers.

Patients should consult and have advice from a nutritionist to have a varied menu that still ensures health to have happy and full Tet holidays with the family.