Diet for pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is a disease in which the pancreas becomes inflamed. It plays a huge role in the digestive system: it regulates energy metabolism, synthesizes digestive juices and is responsible for the breakdown of carbohydrates.

Enzymes first enter the stomach and then the duodenum, where they begin to activate. If the pancreas is inflamed, the enzymes start "working" at an early stage, ie even before excretion. Damage appears: the gland begins to digest, causing the death of some cells of the pancreas.

signs and symptoms of pancreatitis

Pancreatitis can be caused by:

  • infectious diseases not related to the digestive system, for example seasonal ARVI;
  • diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
  • unhealthy diet;
  • stress;
  • alcohol abuse.

Pancreatitis can develop in different forms: acute, reactive and chronic. In acute pancreas, it can become inflamed completely or in parts, the reactive develops against the background of diseases of the digestive system: gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gallbladder or liver.

The chronic form can be in remission for a long time and very often the disease progresses slowly. In most cases, the inflammation reappears when the diet is disturbed.

The nature of the diet in pancreatic pancreatitis plays a huge role: it is impossible to prevent an exacerbation without adhering to a special diet. What are these diets and what are the principles of the menu for pancreatitis?

Principles of nutrition for inflammation of the pancreas

The basic principle, which is established in the preparation of a diet, in which the work of the pancreas is normalized, is to minimize the load on the digestive organ as much as possible.

For adults during an exacerbation, doctors give the following recommendations: "hunger, cold and rest". If the patient is in the hospital and pancreatitis is in the acute stage, it is recommended to refuse food for 2-3 days, and useful substances - salts and liquids - enter the body drip. If you starve at home, it is impossible to fully guarantee the water and electrolyte balance rate. You should and can drink, but only in small portions.

Adults also need to replenish their nutrient reserves. Specially designed diets come to the rescue. The most "tried" of them is table number 5.

Principles of this diet:

  • to create the most gentle conditions for the stomach and intestines - using mechanical and chemical discharge;
  • eliminates pancreatic dysfunction;
  • to prevent negative changes in liver tissue - fat infiltration;
  • reduces the excitability of the gallbladder.

The diet should be followed not only during the treatment of the disease, but also for another year after bringing it into remission.

The main properties of the diet in the treatment of pancreatitis:

adherence to a diet for pancreatitis
  • In the daily menu of the day, you should limit the number of products that contain substances with an extractive effect - stimulating the production of pancreatic enzymes:
    1. refractory fats;
    2. purines;
    3. essential oils;
    4. cholesterol;
    5. coarse fiber;
    6. glucose.
  • Diet: foods with high protein content, reduce the amount of carbohydrates and fats.
  • Cooking technology: cooking, steaming dishes, baking in foil, stews.
  • Fractions of food: up to 6 times a day, in small portions. You need to get up from the table with a slight feeling of malnutrition in order not to overload the pancreas.
  • The first time after an exacerbation, you can only eat pureed foods.
  • Seasonings, including salt, will have to be temporarily abandoned;
  • You shouldn't eat hot and cold foods, food should be heated to a body temperature of around 36 ° C.

Limited consumption regime. You can only drink as much as you like when the urge to vomit has completely diminished.

Do not be afraid of dietary restrictions in the first days after an attack - fasting during treatment is only useful.

Diet menu for pancreatitis

When composing a menu for several days with an exacerbation of pancreatitis, it is necessary to immediately take into account its characteristics - products need to be rubbed. For example, if the meat is souffle or meatballs, the potatoes are mashed potatoes and so on. . .

The menu consists of the following products - an approximate list of them:

  • baby food - you can use both what is packaged in jars and in powder, which is subsequently diluted with liquid;
  • mashed potatoes, cauliflower or white cabbage;
  • ricotta puree.

The proportions of nutrients in the daily menu - fats - 50-70 g, proteins - 130-150 g, carbohydrates - 300-320 g.

Approximately 2-4 days after exacerbation, nausea disappears and the amount of fluid in the body must be restored. It is necessary to drink about 1. 5 liters of water per day, in small sips, one glass every 6 hours. Heavier dishes are introduced into the diet gradually, after the elimination of pain, a name for each meal.

From now on - around the 4th day - the menu includes the following dishes and products:

  • kefir - only low in fat;
  • chicken breast broth;
  • protein omelette;
  • non-acidic berry juices, which are diluted with half water;
  • rosehip decoction;
  • up to about 30 g of honey per day;
  • dried wholemeal bread;
  • unsweetened crackers or biscuits;
  • boiled pasta - you can not use pasta or curls, preference should be given to small vermicelli;
  • porridge is rubbed through a sieve, with pancreatitis, you can cook them from buckwheat, oatmeal (some nutritionists allow you to eat semolina, but it must be cooked completely so that it does not swell in the stomach).

You can eat the following foods:

  • lean meat - chicken breast, beef, rabbit;
  • fish - boiled, but you can only use meat, fish soup and other soups in the fish broth;
  • fruit - baked or blanched;
  • meat broth - secondary;
  • vegetable puree - broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkin.

The nature of the diet in pancreatitis depends on the general condition of the patient.

How nutritional patterns change in pancreatitis

An approximate diet menu in the first few days after an exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis looks like this:

nutritional rules for pancreatitis

1 day:

  • breakfast - half a serving of slimy oatmeal soup and half a glass of plain mineral water;
  • snack - baked apple without peel and sugar;
  • lunch - mashed potatoes - even half a portion - with milk, without spices;
  • afternoon tea - jelly and rusks flour;
  • dinner - buckwheat porridge with weak tea, bleached milk;
  • bedtime: a little milk diluted with water.

Day 2:

  • breakfast - steamed protein omelette, chamomile broth;
  • snack - baked pear;
  • lunch - pearl barley soup, grated in water, crouton with compote;
  • afternoon tea - milk soufflé;
  • dinner - semolina porridge, crushed dried fruit, weak tea;
  • go to bed - half a glass of rosehip broth.

In addition, the diet may be slightly weakened, if the condition has returned to normal:

  • breakfast - oatmeal with dried fruit, preferably with raisins, rosehip broth;
  • snack - raw banana;
  • lunch - steamed fish with carrot puree, dried fruit compote;
  • afternoon tea - cottage cheese topped with honey;
  • dinner - milk rice porridge with weak tea;
  • bedtime: half a glass of diluted milk.

A diet for chronic pancreatitis, when the condition has returned to normal, may look like this: an example of a daily menu:

  • breakfast - vegetable puree, a piece of meat souffle, juice diluted with water, weak tea;
  • snack - protein omelette, steamed chicken breast cutlet, a piece of dry bread, kefir;
  • lunch - small noodles in chicken breast broth, boiled vegetables with a piece of steamed fish, bread, dried fruit compote;
  • afternoon tea - crackers with berry jelly, perhaps a little honey;
  • dinner - steamed meatballs, rice porridge (or mashed potatoes), stewed vegetables, tea.

If you feel hungry before going to bed, you can eat a cracker, a sweet fruit, drink a glass of kefir.

A well-designed menu in the treatment of pancreatitis will help bring the disease into remission quickly. The diet should be followed for a year after the last exacerbation.