What are the dietary precautions after colorectal cancer surgery?

(1) What to eat after colorectal cancer surgery depends on the patient's condition. After 3 ~ 4 days of fasting, intestinal peristalsis recovered after artificial anus venting. When bubbles overflow from stoma, you can eat liquid diet and choose digestible and nutritious foods, such as vegetable soup, rice soup and lotus root powder.

It is best to eat less and eat more, once every 2 ~ 3 hours, 6 ~ 7 meals a day. After a week, you can eat a semi-liquid diet and choose foods rich in protein and low in cellulose, such as noodles, porridge and wonton. And you have to eat a few meals, 5 ~ 6 meals a day. After two weeks, you can eat digestible food with less residue, and fast coarse grains and vegetables with more fiber, such as celery, to reduce the burden on the intestines.

(2) The following foods should not be eaten after colorectal cancer surgery. Foods that are highly irritating to the intestines, such as cold drinks, raw or incompletely cooked foods; It is best not to drink alcoholic beverages; Foods that are easy to produce gas, such as onions, sweet potatoes, broccoli, beans, radishes, etc. Foods that are prone to odor, such as onions, eggs, chocolate, onions, shrimp, etc. ; Foods that are difficult to digest and easily blocked, such as persimmons, raisins, dried fruits, walnuts, fried foods, etc. Loose stool's food, such as curry, coffee, garlic, essence, etc.

In addition, postoperative patients with colorectal cancer should have a balanced diet, be easy to digest, be rich in nutrition, live a regular life, pay attention to food hygiene at ordinary times, do not eat raw, cold, hard, fried and pickled foods, ban smoking and alcohol, and form a good habit of defecation regularly.