General principles of postoperative care for cholecystitis
Surgery is the best way to treat cholecystitis, and surgical removal of the gallbladder will have a certain impact on our body. Therefore, post-operative care should be done. First of all, the nursing staff should do a good job of basic care and keep the surgical site clean and dry, but the work required at different times after cholecystitis surgery is different, let's see what the experts say.
Day 1 after surgery: After the intestinal peristalsis is restored, you can drink water, and there is no abdominal distension and discomfort after drinking water, and you can take liquid food.
Avoid milk and soy milk.
Day 2 after surgery: If there is no discomfort after taking liquid food, you can take a light semi-liquid diet for two days.
Day 4 after surgery: If there is no complaint of discomfort after eating a light semi-liquid diet, you can eat a general diet (but mainly low-fat, low-cholesterol, easy-to-digest food, moderate amount of high-quality protein, eat more choleretic foods and fruits rich in vitamin C). Avoid spicy foods (because it can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to secrete cholecystokininin, causing postoperative biliary fistula). Avoid animal fats. Such as: fatty meat, lard, pig's head meat, pig's trotters, cream cake. Avoid fried and fried foods. Such as: fried fritters, fried eggs, fried chicken thighs. Avoid foods high in cholesterol: egg yolks, fatty meat, animal offal, and fish roe.
On the 8th day after surgery, the fat and protein content of the food can be gradually increased.
The diet can be restored to normal 1 month after surgery.
Liquid rice soup, lotus root flour, almond cream, etc. High-quality protein such as milk, lean meat, egg greens, soy products. Choleretic foods such as spinach, bamboo shoots, onions, tomatoes. Fruits rich in vitamin C such as oranges. Vegetable oils that are easy to digest and contain less cholesterol such as soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and peanut oil.
Light semi-liquid food such as rice porridge, vegetable porridge, sliced soup, pimple soup, etc. Low-fat, low-cholesterol diet such as chicken, hairtail, freshwater fish (crucian carp, silver carp, grass carp, carp), yellow croaker, lean pork, lean mutton, lean beef, skimmed milk powder.
In fact, in addition to the diet of diabetic patients, the diet of cholecystitis patients is also very important, especially after gallbladder removal, so family members should also pay attention to it to create a good recovery condition for patients.