People with poor gastrointestinal conditions often have diarrhea, but many people don’t pay too much attention to it. They think that diarrhea is just a small thing. If it occurs frequently, you should pay attention to it. Diarrhea can cause There are many ways to relieve diarrhea. You can eat some anti-diarrheal foods. So what can you eat to relieve a bad stomach? What can you eat to relieve diarrhea?

1. What to eat for diarrhea

The specific food to eat depends on the condition of the gastrointestinal tract.

(1) In case of severe diarrhea

It is necessary to fast temporarily to allow the intestines to fully rest. At this time, you can use intravenous infusion, or drink glucose + rehydration salt solution in small amounts and multiple times to avoid severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.

(2) When you can eat liquids

Start with light liquid and semi-liquid foods, such as thicker rice soup, millet porridge soup, light salty noodle soup with larger gnocchi removed, etc. .

(3) When the stomach pain is not too severe

Generally speaking, as long as the stomach pain is not too painful and the frequency of diarrhea is reduced, you can start eating. From semi-liquid food to soft and easy-to-digest food, gradually increase the amount.

2. What are the taboos during diarrhea?

(1) Avoid eating oily foods

During a bad stomach, and in most other cases of diarrhea , we should pay attention to eating less oily foods, mainly starchy foods. Although protein can be supplemented, the amount should be gradually increased from small to large, and the cooking should be soft and finely chopped. For example, start with fat-free chicken soup, egg drop soup, etc. instead of serving chunks of chicken and whole hard-boiled eggs. Don’t drink milk for a month. Drinking less sweet yogurt can replace the nutrition of drinking milk.

(2) Avoid eating overly sweet foods

Many people don’t know that after eating a bad meal, you should also pay attention to avoid any sweet foods and sweet drinks, and do not add sugar to food. Because eating white sugar is not conducive to intestinal recovery, the villi of the human small intestine are damaged during diarrhea, and sucrase is secreted by the outer layer of the villi of the small intestine. Therefore, eating sweets during intestinal infection is not easy to digest.

(3) Avoid eating raw and cold foods

Do not eat raw fruits and vegetables within a week. It is best to eat vegetables cooked, chopped into small pieces and cooked until soft. Don't be afraid of losing vitamins. If you want to supplement raw fruits and vegetables, it is best to use the method of juicing and pulping, and filter out the residue, because you need to eat less residue at this time to avoid irritating the injured gastrointestinal tract. Not to mention cold drinks. Cold stimulation itself promotes intestinal movement and aggravates diarrhea, so you need to eat warm food at this time.

(4) Avoid spicy food

1. In terms of cooking methods, you must eat steamed food at this time. You can also consider cooking methods such as stewing, blanching, and stir-frying. , frying are not suitable. It is best not to eat fried food within a month.

2. In terms of seasoning, avoid all kinds of irritating seasonings, such as chili, mustard, black pepper, etc. You can use a small amount of mild spices when stewing, such as cumin, anise, cinnamon, etc.

3. During the recovery period from diarrhea, some foods that can be eaten on daily basis must be temporarily tabooed, such as milk (yoghurt is not included in the restriction), soy milk, sweets, high-fat foods, high-fiber foods, and Fruits such as strawberries, mulberries, kiwi, dragon fruit, etc. whose small seeds can effectively promote intestinal peristalsis should also be eaten after basic recovery.

3. Recipe examples

(1) Chicken soup and yam paste

Ingredients: yam powder, oil-free chicken soup

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1. Add a small amount of cold water to the yam powder and mix well. It will not gelatinize at this time and will still be raw starch granules.

2. Boil the oil-free chicken soup, and pour the yam slurry stirred with cold water evenly into the chicken soup. At this time, the yam will be fully gelatinized.

3. Using chicken soup instead of boiling water to make paste can add some amino acids and soluble protein. It doesn't hurt to add a little MSG, because MSG is sodium glutamate, which is helpful for intestinal repair.

(2) Yogurt and yam paste

Ingredients: yam powder, fresh yogurt, the carbohydrate content is preferably less than 12%.

Method:

1. Use boiling water to make yam paste.

2. When it is a little hot, pour the cold yogurt into the yam paste, and then stir well so that the temperature is just over 40 degrees, which makes it more comfortable to eat.

You cannot drink milk when you have diarrhea, because the activity of lactase decreases at this time, which can easily aggravate diarrhea due to lactose intolerance. But yogurt is beneficial to the recovery of intestinal infections. If you don’t have yam powder, you can just use lotus root powder. It’s just that lotus root starch is purified starch and has low nutritional value. Yam powder is ground directly from dried yam and contains a variety of nutrients, including more minerals than rice. Compared with multigrain flour, yam starch is easy to digest, has less anti-nutrients, and is very friendly to the intestines.

(3) Fried rice porridge with carrots

Ingredients: carrots, germ rice, salt, 1 gram, sesame oil, 1 teaspoon

Method:

< p>1. Put the germ rice into an iron pot, stir-fry over medium-low heat, and stir-fry until the surface is slightly yellow and the rice grains are slightly cracked. Take it out.

2. Wash and mince the carrots, put the fried germ rice into the soup pot, add 4 bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and continue cooking for 40 minutes.

3. Add minced carrots, drop in sesame oil, add salt, and wait until the carrots are soft and rotten before serving.

If food is fried or puffed and then heated to make porridge, it will be particularly easy to digest and is very suitable for patients with diarrhea. Germ rice has high nutritional value and is very good for supplementing B vitamins. If it is not available, you can replace it with ordinary rice or millet. Salt is added to replenish electrolytes, and a small amount of sesame oil is added to promote the absorption of carotene. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which is beneficial to the repair of damaged intestinal mucosa.

(4) Apple lotus root soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of lotus root, 2 apples, 2 spoons of lotus root starch

Method:

1 1. Wash the apples, peel and core them, cut them into pieces, and steam them.

2. Peel and wash the lotus root, cut into cubes and steam.

3. Put the lotus root cubes and apple chunks into a soymilk machine and beat into a paste.

4. Mix the lotus root powder with an appropriate amount of cold boiled water, then add the beaten apple and lotus root pulp and stir well.

Both apples and lotus roots are rich in potassium, which can help replenish minerals lost during diarrhea. It also contains starch and sugar, which can provide energy. It needs to be reminded that do not add a lot of sugar and honey for seasoning. If you use it, it must be very lightly sweet, because a large amount of sucrose (including white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar) will irritate the small intestine, which is not conducive to rehydration, and may even aggravate diarrhea.

4. Drugs to treat diarrhea

Anti-diarrheal drugs: Don’t rush to take them. Many people want to stop diarrhea as soon as they have diarrhea, thinking that as long as they don’t have diarrhea, they will be fine. In fact, for infectious diarrhea, defecation is a protective mechanism of the human body. Diarrhea can expel bacteria, viruses and the toxins they produce from the human body, reducing damage to the human body. Improper antidiarrhea may aggravate infection and poisoning symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine has a more vivid saying about this, which is called "closing the door and leaving the thief in the room". That is to say, if you stop diarrhea at this time, it is equivalent to closing the door and leaving the thief in the house.

When there are frequent watery stools but no fever, antidiarrheal drugs can be used as appropriate. Obvious infectious diarrhea, such as gross pus and blood in the stool, tenesmus, abdominal pain, fever, etc., should be treated with antibiotics, with caution. Use antidiarrheal medicine.

If diarrhea is severe, oral or intravenous rehydration should be given as soon as possible to prevent excessive loss of electrolytes. If diarrhea occurs frequently and lasts for a long time, antidiarrheal agents can be used along with fluid rehydration and antibiotic treatment. For functional diarrhea, antidiarrheal agents can be used to aid digestion and keep warm. However, different antidiarrheal drugs have different functions and should be used rationally. The common name of the most commonly used antidiarrheal agent is montmorillonite powder (Smecta, Biqi, Kenting). This kind of medicine itself is not absorbed. After being taken, it adheres to the intestinal wall, slowing down intestinal peristalsis and achieving anti-diarrheal effect.

Usually used for acute and chronic diarrhea caused by various reasons in adults and children. Adults take one sachet (3 grams) orally at a time and dissolve it in 50 ml of water three times a day. This type of medicine has few side effects and is highly safe. Used at the same time as antibacterial drugs, it is beneficial to the control of infection.