The small but important organ of the digestive system, the gallbladder, sometimes forms stones. In severe cases, removal, abdominal surgery is required. After cholecystectomy (this is the name of surgical manipulation), a person no longer has the ability to accumulate bile and have a lot of it in the bile duct, otherwise it will stagnate.
A diet after gallbladder surgery helps maintain the patient’s health. It helps to avoid complications and return to a full life.
Diet after gallbladder removal
After surgery, it is important to follow your doctor's instructions strictly and follow a certain diet. The diet menu is based on diet products only. Failure to follow the rules of nutrition can cost a person’s life. Please follow the guidelines below:
- Reduce salt intake.
- Limits the intake of fats (fat, brisket, roast lamb). Such foods are difficult to process in the stomach and put a heavy strain on the liver.
- Drink lots of water and juices. Useful herbal teas, fresh fruit and vegetable juice: cabbage, carrot-apple, pumpkin, carrot-celery. Carbonated water, beets and diluted factory juices are contraindicated.
- Drink mineral water only with your doctor's permission. Six months after a cholecystectomy, and if your doctor allows you to use them in your diet, start drinking mineral water or herbal teas.
- Take polyunsaturated fatty acids (Omega 3).
- Alcoholic and low-alcohol beverages after gallbladder surgery should be completely excluded forever.
- Minimize your consumption of high cholesterol foods. The absence of gallbladder does not rule out the appearance of stones formed from cholesterol.
- Spicy and smoked foods are taboo (red and black peppers, bitter spices, vinegar).
- Change the way you prepare food. To protect yourself from re-formation of gallstones after surgery, cook, bake, and steam the food.
- Eat small. Meals are divided into 5-8 meals a day. Drink plenty of water with meals and eat small amounts. Stagnation is least likely with frequent bile secretions.
- Well-fed people whose weight does not meet the norm are advised to eat foods that contain minimal carbohydrates.
- The diet after gallbladder surgery should be balanced with enough minerals and vitamins.
What can and cannot be eaten after surgery?
For the first 2-3 months after gallbladder surgery, the patient prescribes a strict diet that includes a list of acceptable and prohibited foods. It must be strictly adhered to, without allowing any deviation. All foods in the diet are processed: cooked, steamed, steamed. A person who has undergone gallbladder removal should not eat food that contains substances that irritate the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract.
Diet in the early days
The first hours and weeks after gallbladder surgery are crucial. The regular diet of the patient should be strictly adhered to. Any physical load on the press is unacceptable. The main nuances of therapeutic nutrition after gallbladder removal:
- 1-2 hours after surgery. It is forbidden to eat or drink. Dry mouth is a normal symptom, and the patient wipes their lips and lips with a cloth dampened with chamomile sauce or boiled water to relieve it.
- In 4-6 hours. When the gallbladder is removed and the patient recovers a little from anesthesia, they are allowed to rinse their mouths with herbal decoctions.
- 24-36 hours after surgery. The patient can drink boiled water, non-carbonated mineral water, unsweetened rosehip broth or compote in small sips. The maximum amount of liquid consumed is 1-1, 5 liters.
- After 48 hours. The removed gallbladder patient receives warm, unsweetened tea, gel, and fat-free kefir every 3-4 hours.
- On the third day after cholecystectomy of the gallbladder. The diet menu softens a bit, not only drinks are added to the diet, but also food: mashed potatoes, soups in weak broth, scrambled eggs, cooked fish. The diet is common, but in small doses, 2-3 tablespoons.
- Day 5. White, stale (yesterday) bread or biscuits will be added to the menu of the removed gallbladder.
- 6 days after surgery. In the patient's diet, take porridge in water, cooked lean meat (chicken, rabbit) and fish, fat-free cottage cheese, vegetable puree.
- On the eighth day and up to 1. 5 months after surgery. A person with a removed gallbladder is prescribed a special gentle diet: 5-8 times diet, cook a few meals, chop in a blender, eat warm. New foods are gradually introduced into the diet (no more than one meal per day).
Therapeutic diet during the recovery period - Table 5
In order for the gallbladder to recover faster after surgery, the patient is given a special nutritional system. Diet Table 5 is one of the best of many well-known diets. Its main tasks include:
- the strictest abstinence from the use of prohibited high-calorie foods;
- stabilization of the liver;
- improving bile secretion after gallbladder surgery;
- increasing the bactericidal properties of bile;
- activation of intestinal motility.
Authorized and prohibited products
Following a diet after gallbladder surgery, you should:
- Cereals. Oatmeal, buckwheat, semolina and rice porridge are especially useful after surgery. It is advisable to add not only meat but also dried fruit to them.
- Meat. Stewed or cooked rabbit meat, turkey, veal, beef. Steam slices, meatballs and meatballs from meat dishes are allowed after the operation.
- A fish. The consumption of fish cooked or steamed up to three times a week from low-fat varieties is allowed: pike, tuna, hake, pollock.
- Soups. After gallbladder surgery, dairy products with pasta, fruit, beets, cabbage soup, cereals, vegetarian, grated vegetable cream soup are useful.
- Seafood. Minimal and occasional consumption of mussels, shrimp and oysters is allowed.
- Bread. Yesterday's baking rye, wheat first and second grade, with bran.
- Pastries. After gallbladder surgery, the consumption of biscuits, dry biscuits and products made from lean dough with fruit filling is not prohibited.
- Vegetables. Roasted, cooked or raw: cauliflower, potatoes, beets, Beijing cabbage, zucchini, bell peppers.
- Dairy products. Sour cream (one spoon a day), yoghurt, skimmed milk, non-fat cottage cheese and cheese.
- Berries and fruits. All allowed (except sour) - raw, fried, dried, cooked; slices, compotes, souffle.
- Egg. It is possible to use an omelette without a yolk.
- Sweetness. Marshmallow, jam, marshmallows.
- Drinks. Fresh juices fruit drinks (except sour), tea, jelly, decoction, compote.
Diet after gallbladder surgery Table 5 contains taboos:
- Pastries. Fresh bread, baked pies, muffins, puffed.
- Soups. Okroshka, strong meat, mushrooms, fish soup is prohibited.
- A fish. You must not use canned, salted, smoked, greasy varieties.
- Meat. Fatty pork, duck and goose meat, liver, smoked meats, sausages, kidneys.
- Dairy products. Cream, fermented fried milk, fatty cheese and cottage cheese.
- Kashi. Cereals of the leguminous family.
- Egg. Baked, hard cooked, with yolk.
- Vegetables. Radish, spinach, garlic, radish, green onion, mushrooms, pickles.
- Fruit. Sour berries, citrus fruits.
- Sweetness. Ice cream, greasy creams, chocolate.
- Drinks. Soda, cocoa, coffee, alcohol.
Sample menu for the week
After the gallbladder is removed, the person should carefully select the foods and foods to eat in order to restore good health. It will be easier to follow your desired diet if you use the weekly sample menu:
1 day diet
- Breakfast: steamed protein omelette, rice porridge with milk, a glass of tea.
- Lunch: cottage cheese with milk.
- Lunch: vegetarian cabbage soup, little cooked meat, stewed carrots, prunes.
- Afternoon snack: cookies, a glass of tea.
- Dinner: low-fat cheese, buttered pasta, mineral water without gas.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
2-day diet
- Breakfast: apple and carrot salad, stewed meatballs, a cup of tea.
- Lunch: apple.
- Lunch: mashed potatoes soup, stewed white cabbage, boiled fish, fruit jelly.
- Snack: biscuit cookies, a glass of rosehip soup.
- Dinner: buckwheat porridge with butter, mineral water without gas.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
3-day diet
- Breakfast: cottage cheese with sour cream, oatmeal with milk.
- Lunch: baked apples.
- Lunch: vegetable soup, boiled chicken and rice, rosehip broth.
- Afternoon snack: juice.
- Dinner: mashed potatoes, boiled fish, a cup of dried apricot compote.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
4-day diet
- Breakfast: pasta with pieces of meat, butter, a cup of tea.
- Lunch: carrot puree.
- Lunch: potato soup, stuffed cabbage without meat, a glass of jelly.
- Afternoon: apple.
- Dinner: rice porridge, a glass of tea, cheese.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
5 day diet
- Breakfast: buckwheat with butter, cottage cheese, coffee with milk.
- Lunch: baked apples.
- Lunch: lean borscht, pasta with cooked meat, berry jelly.
- Afternoon snack: biscuits with a cup of tea.
- Dinner: mashed potatoes, boiled fish, vegetable salad, mineral water without gas.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
6 day diet
- Breakfast: steams, buckwheat, a glass of tea.
- Lunch: carrot puree.
- Lunch: soup with pasta and milk, cottage cheese pudding, a spoonful of sour cream, dried fruit compote.
- Afternoon snack: a cup of jelly.
- Dinner: semolina porridge, mineral water without gas.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)
7 day diet
- Breakfast: low-fat herring, boiled potatoes, a glass of tea.
- Lunch: carrot puree.
- Lunch: cabbage soup without meat, vermicelli, steamed meatballs, compote.
- Afternoon snack: biscuits with a cup of berry jelly.
- Dinner: syrniki with sour cream, steamed protein omelette, mineral water without gas.
- evening: kefir (1 glass)