What should people with colitis eat for three meals a day?

Some office worker friends sometimes have irregular diets, causing varying degrees of gastrointestinal diseases, such as enteritis. In addition to regular meal times, what they eat also requires special attention. Below, the editor introduces some daily meal suggestions for enteritis patients, hoping it will be helpful to everyone.

I. What to Eat for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with Enteritis

Breakfast: A bowl of millet congee or lotus seed soup, one steamed bun or an egg.

Lunch: For staple foods, steamed buns, rice, millet congee, or noodles are all acceptable. You can pair it with some light and tasty stir-fried dishes. Avoid greasy, spicy, or too hard foods.

Dinner: You can choose according to your appetite. If your appetite is poor, you can have some millet congee. If your appetite is better, you can follow the same standard as lunch, but you must still pay attention to avoiding certain foods and not overeating.

Braised Tremella with Lotus Seed and Rock Sugar Congee

II. Dietary Recommendations for Enteritis Patients

1. Porridge is the best option, and you can also drink more light vegetable soups, as they contain soluble substances that are easy to digest and absorb.

2. Low-fat and low-fiber. Patients should not eat fried, pan-fried, raw, cold, or high-fiber foods. You can choose easily digestible foods like fine noodles, stewed noodles, wontons, tender vegetable leaves, fish, shrimp, eggs, and bean products to allow the intestines to rest.

3. Most patients with chronic enteritis have weak constitutions and poor resistance, so they should pay more attention to food hygiene. Do not eat raw, cold, hard, or spoiled food. Do not drink alcohol or eat strong, irritating condiments.

4. When experiencing excessive gas or bowel sounds, you should eat less sucrose and gas-producing or fermenting foods, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, white radishes, pumpkins, milk, soybeans, etc.

5. When chronic enteritis patients are accompanied by dehydration, they can drink some light salt water, vegetable soup, rice soup, fruit juice, or congee to replenish water, salt, and vitamins.

Millet and Red Date Congee

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III. Foods to Avoid with Enteritis

1. Milk

Milk is rich in various essential nutrients and vitamins and is a widely loved food. However, most patients with chronic colitis should not drink it. Some particularly sensitive patients may experience bowel sounds and diarrhea soon after consumption. Although milk has the effect of "nourishing deficiency and strengthening the spleen and stomach," it also has a "lubricating effect on the large intestine." Therefore, patients with chronic colitis should be cautious when consuming milk.

2. Melons and Fruits

This mainly refers to various fresh melons and fruits, such as watermelon, muskmelon, cucumber, banana, peach, persimmon, loquat, and raw pears. Although melons and fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals, and inorganic salts, they are also on the taboo list for most patients with chronic colitis. This is because most melons and fruits are considered cold in nature, which can damage the spleen's yang energy, easily generate dampness, and hinder the spleen and stomach's digestive function. Some also have a laxative effect, leading to frequent diarrhea and affecting treatment efficacy. Many patients who eat watermelon in the summer often experience diarrhea, which is a clear example.

3. Greasy and Spicy Foods

This mainly refers to fatty meat dishes, such as braised pork, spare ribs, meat buns, wontons, and rich chicken or duck soups. These foods contain animal fats, and after consumption, patients with chronic colitis often experience an increase in bowel movements, so they should not be eaten.

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