How should patients with cholecystitis be cared for after surgery?
When it comes to cholecystitis, everyone must be very familiar with it, and everyone knows that this disease is quite tormenting, and everyone does not want to get cholecystitis themselves, because it is very painful in the abdomen when it attacks, and severe patients are even restless.
At present, the best way to treat cholecystitis is surgery, but it is necessary to pay extra attention to the usual care after surgery. Let's take a look at how patients care after surgery.
1. Dietary care
Patients with cholecystitis should take fasting measures while eliminating inflammation during an attack. When the symptoms are relieved, you can eat some liquid food, such as soy milk, fruit juice, vegetarian soup, thick rice soup, etc. Patients with chronic cholecystitis can eat low-fat, low-cholesterol semi-liquid foods such as lean meat, chicken, fish, vegetables, and fruit puree. At the same time, you should drink more plain water to promote the excretion of bile.
2. Work activities
It is very necessary for patients with acute cholecystitis to take bed rest during the onset of the disease, so that the condition will be stable, and patients with chronic cholecystitis should also exercise slowly and not excessively. Because a large amount of activity will cause fatigue, which is the main cause of cholecystitis in clinical practice, and the amount of activity is relatively large, the calories consumed are more, and the more energy needs to be replenished, which will greatly reduce the burden on the gallbladder.
3. General nursing
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
How to care for patients with cholecystitis after surgery? As has been explained in the above article, if you are also a cholecystitis patient who has just undergone surgery, please be sure to follow the above matters to do a good job of nursing, only in this way you will suffer the least pain and recover the fastest.