Diet after gallbladder surgery

A small but important organ of the digestive system, the gallbladder, sometimes forms stones. In severe cases it is necessary to remove it, abdominal surgery. After a cholecystectomy (so called for this surgical manipulation) a person no longer has the ability to accumulate bile and there must be a lot in the bile ducts, otherwise he will experience stagnation.

Diet after gallbladder surgery will help the patient maintain good health. This helps to avoid complications and return the person to a full life.

Diet after gallbladder removal

Dishes after gallbladder removal Photo 1

After surgery it is important to strictly follow the doctor's instructions and follow a certain diet. The basis of the diet menu is only diet products. Failure to follow the rules of nutrition can cost a person life. Please follow the instructions below:

  1. Reduce salt intake.
  2. Limit fats (pork fat, lamb, fried). Such food is difficult to process in the stomach and puts a lot of stress on the liver.
  3. Drink plenty of water and juices. Useful herbal tea, fresh juice of fruits and vegetables: cabbage, carrots-apples, pumpkin, carrots-celery. Sparkling water, beets and diluted plant juices are contraindicated.
  4. Drink mineral water only with a doctor's permission. Six months after cholecystectomy and if your doctor allows you to use them in your diet, start drinking mineral water or medicinal herbal tea.
  5. Take polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega 3).
  6. Alcohol and low-alcohol beverages should be ruled out forever after gallbladder surgery.
  7. Reduce your intake of foods high in cholesterol. The absence of a gallbladder does not rule out the formation of cholesterol-induced stones.
  8. Spicy and smoked foods are taboo (red and black pepper, bitter spices, vinegar).
  9. Change the way you cook. To protect yourself from the recurrence of gallstones after surgery, boil, bake, and steam food.
  10. Eat small. Divide food 5-8 times a day. Drink plenty of water while eating and serve small meals. With frequent bile secretion, stagnation is the least likely.
  11. Well-nourished people whose weight does not meet the norm are advised to eat at least carbohydrate-rich foods.
  12. After gallbladder surgery, the diet should be balanced, with enough minerals and vitamins.

What can and can not be eaten after surgery?

For the first 2-3 months after gallbladder surgery, the patient is prescribed a strict diet that includes a list of acceptable and forbidden foods. It must be strictly guarded, without allowing any deviation. All dishes specified in the diet are processed: boiled, steamed, stewed. A person who has gallbladder removal should not eat fried foods that contain substances that irritate the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract.

Diet in the early days

Drink after gallbladder removal

The first hours and weeks after gallbladder surgery are crucial. Regular feeding by the patient should be strictly observed. Any physical exertion on the press is unacceptable. The main nuances of therapeutic nutrition after gallbladder removal:

  • 1-2 hours after surgery. Do not eat or drink. Dry mouth is considered a normal symptom, to suppress it the patient cleans the lips and mouth with chamomile juice or a tampon soaked in boiled water.
  • After 4-6 hours. When the gallbladder is removed and the patient recovers slightly from anesthesia, he is allowed to rinse his mouth with herbal extracts.
  • 24-36 hours after surgery. The patient can drink boiled water, non-carbonated mineral water, sugar-free decoction of rose or compotes in small sips. The maximum amount of fluid to drink is 1-1, 5 liters.
  • 48 hours later. The patient with the removed gallbladder is given warm sugar-free tea, jelly, low-fat kefir once every 3-4 hours.
  • On the third day after cholecystectomy of the gallbladder. The diet menu slightly softens, not only drinks but also food are added to the diet: mashed potatoes, soups in weak broth, scrambled eggs without hearts, boiled fish. Diet is frequent, but in small doses 2-3 tablespoons.
  • On the 5th day. White leftover (yesterday) bread or crackers are added to the menu of the patient with the removed gallbladder.
  • 6 days after surgery. Include porridge in water, cooked lean meat (chicken, rabbit) and fish, low-fat cottage cheese, vegetable puree in the patient's diet.
  • On the eighth day and 1, 5 months after surgery. Having a removed gallbladder is prescribed a special moderate diet: 5-8-fold diet, preparing food for a couple, chopping in a blender, eating warm. Fresh food is gradually included in the diet (no more than one meal per day).

Therapeutic diet during the recovery period - Table 5

Dishes after gallbladder removal Photo 2

The patient is given a special feeding system for faster recovery after gallbladder surgery. Diet table number 5 is considered to be one of the best among many famous diets. Its main tasks include:

  • Strict abstinence from the use of prohibited, high-calorie foods;
  • Liver stabilization;
  • Improving bile secretion after gallbladder surgery;
  • Increase the bactericidal properties of bile;
  • Activation of bowel movement.

Permitted and Prohibited Products

Buckwheat and soup after removing the gallbladder

Following a diet following gallbladder surgery, you should eat:

  • Cereals. Especially useful after the operation are oatmeal, buckwheat, semolina, rice porridge. It is recommended to add not only meat but also dried fruit.
  • Meat. Steamed or cooked rabbit meat, turkey, veal, beef. Steam cutlets, meatballs, meatballs from meat dishes are allowed after the operation.
  • Თեւზი. Consumption of boiled or steamed non-fat varieties of fish is allowed up to three times a week: pepper perch, tuna, hack, flower.
  • Soups. After gallbladder surgery are useful dairy products with the addition of pasta, fruit, beets, cabbage soup, vegetarian grains, grated vegetable cream soup.
  • sea Products. Minimal amounts and sometimes allowed to eat mussels, shrimps, oysters.
  • Პური. Yesterday's baked rye, wheat first and second grade, bran.
  • Baking products. After surgery on the gallbladder, it is not forbidden to eat biscuit cakes, dry biscuits, products made of lean dough with fruit filling.
  • Vegetables. Stewed, boiled or raw: cauliflower, potatoes, beets, Peking cabbage, zucchini, bell peppers are allowed.
  • Milk products. Sour cream (one tablespoon per day), yogurt, cottage cheese milk, low-fat cottage cheese and cheese.
  • Berries and fruits. Allowed all (except acids) - raw, baked, dried, cooked; Kisses, compotes, soups.
  • eggs. It is possible to use omelets without hearts.
  • Sweets. Marshmallow, Marmalade, Marshmallow.
  • ᲡAssel. Fresh juices fruit drinks (except sour), tea, jelly, decoction, compote.
Fish and bread after gallbladder removal

Diet After Gallbladder Surgery Table 5 indicates the taboo:

  • Baking products. Fresh bread, fried pies, muffins, puffs.
  • Soups. Okroshka, strong meat, mushrooms, fish broth are prohibited.
  • Თեւზი. You can not use canned, salted, smoked, fatty varieties.
  • Meat. Fatty pork, duck and goose meat, liver, smoked meat, sausages, kidneys.
  • Milk products. Cream, fermented baked milk, fatty cheese and cottage cheese.
  • Kashi. Cereals of the legume family.
  • eggs. Roasted, boiled, hearty.
  • Vegetables. Radish, spinach, garlic, radish, green onion, mushrooms, marinades.
  • Fruits. Sour berries, citrus fruits.
  • Sweets. Ice cream, greasy creams, chocolate.
  • ᲡAssel. Soda, cocoa, coffee, alcohol.

Sample menu for the week

Soup and porridge after removal of the gallbladder

After surgery, during which the gallbladder is removed, in order to return to health, a person must carefully select the dishes and foods intended for the diet. It will be easier for you to follow the required mode if you use the sample menu during the week:

1 day diet

  • Breakfast: steamed protein omelette, rice porridge with milk, a cup of tea.
  • Lunch: cottage cheese with milk.
  • Lunch: Vegetarian cabbage soup, a little boiled meat, stewed carrots, plum compote.
  • Afternoon breakfast: cakes, a cup of tea.
  • Dinner: low-fat cheese, pasta with butter, mineral water without gas.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

2-day diet

  • Breakfast: apple and carrot salad, steamed meatballs, a cup of tea.
  • Lunch: apples.
  • Lunch: mashed potatoes, stewed white cabbage, boiled fish, fruit jelly.
  • Breakfast: Biscuit cakes, one cup of rose broth.
  • Dinner: buckwheat porridge with butter, mineral water without gas.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

3-day diet

  • Breakfast: cottage cheese with sour cream, oatmeal with milk.
  • Lunch: Baked apples.
  • Lunch: vegetable soup, boiled chicken and rice, rose broth.
  • Afternoon: Fruit juice.
  • Dinner: mashed potatoes, boiled fish, a glass of dried apricot compote.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

4-day diet

  • Breakfast: pasta with slices of meat, butter, a cup of tea.
  • Lunch: Carrot puree.
  • Lunch: potato soup, stuffed cabbage without meat, a glass of jelly.
  • Afternoon: Apples.
  • Dinner: rice milk porridge, a cup of tea, cheese.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

5-day diet

  • Breakfast: buckwheat with butter, cottage cheese, coffee with milk.
  • Lunch: Baked apples.
  • Lunch: low-fat borscht, noodles cooked with meat, berry jelly.
  • Afternoon breakfast: Biscuit cake, cup of tea.
  • Dinner: mashed potatoes, boiled fish, vegetable salad, mineral water without gas.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

6-day diet

  • Breakfast: steamed cutlets, buckwheat, a cup of tea.
  • Lunch: Carrot puree.
  • Lunch: soup with pasta and milk, cottage cheese pudding, a spoonful of sour cream, dried fruit compote.
  • Afternoon Breakfast: A glass of jelly.
  • Dinner: semolina porridge, mineral water without gas.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)

7-day diet

  • Breakfast: low-fat herring, boiled potatoes, a cup of tea.
  • Lunch: Carrot puree.
  • Lunch: cabbage soup without meat, vermicelli, steamed meat balls, compote.
  • Afternoon: Biscuit cakes, a glass of berry jelly.
  • Dinner: cheese with sour cream, steamed protein omelette, mineral water without gas.
  • At night: kefir (1 cup)