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[Last Update: 29th August 2006]
Intragastric Balloon - Dietary Recommendations
Dietary Recommendations
First Few Days after BIB | |
General recommendations:
| First day diet: Cold tea and water:
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In between meals we recommend that you drink vegetable juice, milk, fruit juices, and water, to ingest sufficient liquids and prevent dehydration | Sample Menu Breakfast 1/3 cup pureed fruit ½ cup yogurt Lunch ½ cup consommé or broth 1/3 cup pureed fruit Dinner ½ cup yogurt ½ cup pureed fruit |
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More liquid/pureed diet included in your meals during week 3 and 4 after the balloon implantation, to assist in adapting to BIB. How can I prepare a pureed diet? This may be a challenge for you. You will need a blender or food processor. The food has to be blended until reaching a Gerber or applesauce consistency. Avoid spicy flavours; they may irritate your stomach. Use the following list to give you an idea of what you can eat on weeks 3 and 4: Liquids or beverages, and milk. Good options: Tea, non-carbonated drinks, natural fruit juices, Crystal Light, coffee, water, skimmed milk, low fat and sugar free yogurt. Limit or try to avoid: Artificial fruit juices, soda, alcohol, all carbonated beverages, iced tea with sugar, milk or yogurt products with nuts or seeds, chocolate milk, sweetened condensed milk, whole milk. Fruits. Good options: Applesauce, pureed pears, and bananas. Limit or try to avoid: Canned fruits or fruits with syrup. Vegetables. Good options: Pureed vegetables, vegetable juice. Limit or try to avoid: Raw vegetables, canned vegetables, vegetables that cause discomfort (gas forming). Soups. Good options: Broth, cream soups make with skimmed milk, egg drop soup, low sodium bouillion or consommé. Limit or try to avoid: All other. Starches. Good options: Mashed potatoes. Limit or try to avoid: Bread, pasta, rice and all other starches. Meats or protein supplements. Good options: Pureed chicken, fish, tuna, veal, beef, low fat cottage cheese, baby food meats, mashed or pureed tofu, pureed egg or egg substitute, Sugar-free Protein shakes like Designer’s Protein, Boost Breeze, no sugar added Carnation Instant Breakfast. Limit or try to avoid: Peanut butter, others. Fats, sugars and others Good options: Sugar free gelatine, sugar free popsicles, pudding. Limit: Others. | Sample Menu Breakfast (8 a.m.) ½ cup yogurt and 1/3 cup pureed fruit - or - 4-6 tablespoons cooked refined cereal, adding 3 tablespoons of skimmed milk 1 hour later ( 9 a.m.) 1 cup fruit juice -or- milk 2 hours later (11:00 a.m.) 4-6 tablespoons yogurt 1 hour later ( 12:00 p.m.) 1 cup water -or- unsweetened fruit juice ---------------------------------- Lunch (1 p.m.) 3 tablespoons pureed chicken 2 tablespoons pureed vegetables 2 tablespoons mashed potatoes 1 cup water 1 hour later ( 2 p.m.) 1 cup water 2 hours later ( 4 p.m.) 1 cup protein supplement -or- 1 package No Sugar Added Carnation Instant Breakfast ---------------------------------- Dinner (6:30 p.m.) 2-3 tablespoons chicken -or- fish or tuna 2 tablespoons vegetables 2 tablespoons mashed potatoes 1 hour later ( 7:30 p.m.) 1 cup skimmed milk 1 hour later ( 8:30 p.m.) 3 tablespoons cottage cheese 4 tablespoons pureed fruit 1 hour later ( 9:30 p.m.) 1 cup broth -or- egg drop soup |
[Last Update: 29th August 2006]
