What dietary taboos should be noted for enteritis?

The core dietary principle when suffering from enteritis is not to add burden to the already injured intestines. During the attack period, you should completely avoid foods high in oil, high fiber, strong stimulation, and high osmosis. Even within a week after getting better, try not to eat anything that is too cold or heavy, otherwise the risk of recurrence will be much higher.

Not long ago, when I was helping in the gastroenterology department, I met a 21-year-old boy. He had just stopped suffering from acute enteritis. That night, he invited a friend to eat butter hotpot and ice beer. That night, he went back to the hospital because of severe abdominal pain and blood in the stool. It was found that the intestinal mucosa had just been repaired and had been irritated and ruptured. The gain outweighed the gain. When many people suffer from enteritis, their first reaction is to take supplements. Stewing old hen soup or cooking multigrain porridge seems to nourish the stomach. In fact, it is completely wrong. The inflamed intestinal wall is like worn skin on the surface. Heavy oil soup and rough grain fiber will only aggravate the redness, swelling and congestion, but also slow down the recovery speed.

There is actually no standard answer to the question "Can you drink milk if you have enteritis" that is very popular on the Internet? If you are not lactose intolerant, you will not feel uncomfortable if you drink a small amount of warm pure milk. You can drink a few sips to supplement protein without strict dietary restrictions. However, if you usually drink milk and you are prone to flatulence and diarrhea, you must stop the attack first. There is no need to bear the discomfort to supplement nutrition. There are also many people who know to avoid spicy food and oil, but they ignore foods such as fruits with small seeds and gluteny celery and leeks. The residue of these foods is hard, and when it scratches the edema of the intestinal wall, it is like fine sand rubbing on the wound, which will aggravate diarrhea and abdominal pain. I have seen many patients eat half a dragon fruit and then have diarrhea for a whole day.

Don’t let yourself go immediately after the symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea have completely disappeared. I know an old patient who has suffered from chronic enteritis for 3 years. He used to have one or two attacks every month. Later, he figured out the pattern. In the first 3 days after he got better, he only ate steamed pumpkin, soft clear soup noodles, steamed eggs and other foods with almost no residue. When the intestines were completely relieved, he slowly added stir-fried green leafy vegetables and lean tenderloin. Now he has not had a recurrence for more than half a year. If you have a body type that is prone to recurrent enteritis, you may wish to keep a small diet notebook by yourself. Write down what you feel uncomfortable after eating. Everyone’s intestinal tolerance is different. The taboos you summarized by yourself are much more reliable than general popular science.