​One-year menu after gastrectomy

Patients who have undergone gastrectomy must eat a light diet and choose foods that are easier for the human body to absorb. Normally, family members of patients who have undergone gastrectomy need to understand the one-year menu for gastrectomy and what foods are suitable for patients who have undergone gastrectomy. In particular, special attention should be paid to the fact that within 3 months after gastrectomy, the patient must eat small meals frequently and the ingredients must be fresh.

Generally speaking, there are three stages of diet recovery after discharge:

The first stage: Within half a month after discharge from hospital, the patient will mainly eat liquid and semi-liquid food, and gradually transition to normal food, with 6 meals a day (three regular meals and three supplementary meals).

The second stage: within half a month to three months after discharge from hospital, normal food is eaten 6 times a day (three main meals and three supplementary meals).

The third stage: After being discharged from hospital for more than three months, the patient gradually transitions from 6 meals a day to 3-4 meals a day (three regular meals or one supplementary meal).

After recovery, you can eat any harmless food, but to eat healthily, you need to pay attention to the following points:

Eat mainly easily digestible food: Without the transition of the stomach, food goes directly into the small intestine, so it is important to choose easily digestible food and make it carefully. The second is to chew slowly and thoroughly. Through these compensatory measures, the food that enters the body can be turned into food paste that is easy to digest. In terms of food types, it is recommended to eat foods that you have consumed for a long time. Patients who mainly eat pasta should still eat pasta as their main food after surgery, and patients who mainly eat rice as their main food should still eat rice as their main food after surgery. You can add appropriate amounts of meat, poultry, eggs and vegetables with good starch content (potatoes, taro, yam, etc.), and gradually add leafy foods. Postoperative patients are weak and have poor digestion ability. In principle, it is recommended to eat seeds (rice, flour, corn, etc.) first, then add root foods (potatoes, taro, yam, etc.), then add neck and fruit foods (celery, winter melon, winter squash, etc.), and finally add leafy foods (Shanghai green, Chinese cabbage, chrysanthemum, etc.). For example, first eat meat noodles, meat rice, jade cakes, etc., then add minced meat and mashed potatoes, taro stewed pork ribs, yam stewed chicken, etc. to match the noodles or rice, then add winter melon ribs, celery and pork shreds, winter melon and meat slices, etc., and finally use stir-fried cabbage, bok choy, etc. In principle, it is not recommended to consume large amounts of spicy foods such as onions, garlic, curry, mustard, and peppers. Finally, I would like to add that fish is the best meat, followed by beef, mutton, and then meat. The best fish are deep-sea fish, followed by fish from natural rivers and reservoirs, and then farmed fish. Shrimp is also good, but crabs are not recommended for large consumption due to their cold nature. Fresh fish is the best, followed by chilled fish, and frozen fish is the worst.