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Low Residue Diet After Ileostomy Formation

Low residue diet

What Is A Low Residue Diet? So for those of you facing stoma surgery you may have heard this. You may not have heard this. So what is a low residue diet? A low residue diet is something that needs to be followed for roughly up to 6-8 weeks after stoma formation (mainly ileostomy formation). The reason being is that your insides have been played around with and your bowel now in its stoma formation needs time to rest and heal as it can be swollen and needs time to adapt to not using your large bowel as a form of exit.

What Is A Low Residue Diet?

A low residue diet is where you have to avoid things that are high in fibre such as:

“whole-grain breads and cereals, nuts, seeds, raw or dried fruits, and vegetables”.

“Residue” is undigested food, including fibre, that makes up stool. The goal of the diet is to have fewer, smaller bowel movements each day. That will ease symptoms like diarrhoea, bloating, gas, and stomach cramping.

Now with an ileostomy this may seem like a stupid notion as it is not a normal movement but trust me when I say this will aide your recovery and by following this for a recommended time period will help you with your recovery and getting your stoma output under control.

Why do I follow the low residue diet after the operation?

I follow this diet every time I have bowel surgery purely because I know that it is very successful for me and my recovery. Having had the amount of bowel I’ve had I am very well versed in the diet and how it aids the bowel healing and also helps me immensely with stoma output and it getting to the consistency it needs to be for discharge from hospital.

When they say you can eat anything after the surgery please proceed with “CAUTION”. We can’t just eat anything after surgery as certain foods can lead to a blockage and that immediately after stoma formation is a pain that nobody wants to experience.

Now the leaflet they give you is pretty much useless apart from the list of food groups it mentions. Now I did my research for months prior to having my surgery and apart from Pinterest there are no recipe guides on how to use these food groups. Just a list of can eat/can’t eat.

So what can you eat post operation?

So I’ve compiled a list of things to eat whilst getting through the first six weeks. This is just a guide and i would advise to eat what you wish to within reason.

Snacks

  • Marshmallows are good for binding the output from your stoma
  • Jelly-aim for no added sugar as sucrose (artificial sweetener) upsets the stoma and can cause dumping(where the stoma goes into overdrive and chucks out all fluids)
  • Ready salted crisps, Squares, Hula hoops and tortilla chips
  • Smooth yoghurt (no bits in it)
  • Marshmallows
  • Shortbread
  • Rich tea biscuits
  • Digestive Biscuits
  • Lentil crisps

Breakfast

  • Scrambled eggs, poached eggs or dippy eggs
  • Porridge
  • Cornflakes, rice crispies, frosties, so anything that doesn’t have bits in it
  • Toast
  • Jam as long as its smooth and doesn’t have skins
  • Chocolate spread
  • Marmite – dependent on if your a love or hate it person

Lunches/Dinners

  • Rice noodles
  • Long grain white rice ( the microwave sachets always better as can guarantee it’s cooked through)
  • Pasta
  • Turkey mince (as long as you season and add parmesan cheese). I make this into meatballs and turkey burgers
  • Chicken- roasted, poached, grilled and fried
  • Turkey ham
  • Omelettes – You can pretty much add what you like as long as it’s within what you can eat
  • Potatoes – Mashed, boiled & Jacket potato ( no skins) – Roasted potatoes
  • Beef- You have to make sure you chew extremely well as this is quite difficult to digest- I myself am not very good with red meat in large quantity’s as it makes me sick
  • Pork- this is also another difficult to digest meat, so chewing well is essential
  • Fish- Any fish is fine as long as its de-skinned and boned, the only problem with this is it makes the stoma output have an odour
  • Lamb- also another meat that needs to be well chewed
  • Pies, Just check the ingredients
  • Wraps
  • Soups- All smooth and blended down soups are good for your post op diet
  • Sandwiches

Vegetables

  • Green beans – Boiled for a while so they are soft
  • Carrots- Only cooked ones – Boil for 25 minutes so they are really soft
  • Suede- mashed
  • Any root vegetable you can eat as long as its de-skinned and boiled for a long time.
  • Sweet potato – mashed or oven cooked, no skins

Fruit

  • Over ripe Apples- Minus the skins
  • Overripe pears – Minus the skins
  • Melon, but you have to check your medications as sometimes it’s advised to not eat this as it can react with the medication itself
  • Fruit smoothies as long as it’s all de-skinned and has no seeds

Salads

  • Cucumber- no skin allowed
  • Tomatoes – Skin and seeds removed, A good way to do this is to oven cook them in tin foil, the skin easily peels off and the seed removal is easy. then you can mash or chop the pulp
  • Lettuce- chew well its fine
  • Spinach – chew well

Seasoning

  • Garlic- Use sparingly as it makes the stoma contents rather garlic smelling
  • Dry herbs- All those little seasoning jars, buy them because they are an easy way to add taste and flavour to your food and means you won’t be stuck eating bland food or going for the bad options of trying something tasty that’s going to hurt your stoma
  • Fresh herbs – chopped well they are fine

Cheese

All cheese is good, I mainly only eat goats cheese as normal cheese gives me indigestion, but it’s down to the individual so go crazy. Just avoid the ones that have fruit or nuts in them.

Drinks

  • Isotonic drinks- this is individual to each person – I can’t drink these as my stoma dumps it.
  • Tea/Coffee- these need to be limited as caffeine is bad for the stoma- I drink the herbal teas that are caffeine free or peppermint tea as it aids digestion after eating
  • Fruit juices
  • Fruit and barley Squash- This with water helps to bind the stoma to a degree
  • Fizzy drinks- First six weeks this is a no-go

You may have seen I have avoided water from this list. Reason for that is plain water for ostomates can be Satan in disguise. Always flavour the water with an isotonic tablet or squash as this gives the bowel something to hold onto. In my personal experience plain water is normally flushed out from mouth to stoma within 20 minutes of drinking a glass.

Sauces

I tend to make most of mine from the beginning but there are also good ones you can buy that are pre-prepared and don’t have the stuff you can’t eat in them.

  • Tomato and mascarpone sauce. No bits and its smooth
  • Carbonara- Just check for mushrooms
  • Cheese sauce
  • Cream, lemon and paprika sauce- I make this to use with my seafood pasta as I can’t eat jarred sauces as they contain peppers and onions as a base
  • Soy sauce
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • Buffalo hot sauce – I love this stuff but it’s down to the individual

Puddings

Coming from a female all puddings are good, that’s not essentially the case because I don’t really eat pudding. However, the sponge varieties are good at bulking your output.

  • Syrup sponge
  • Chocolate sponge
  • Ice cream
  • Cheesecake- dependent on what’s in it
    That’s about my limit for puddings and my list of Can eat foods. If you need the don’t eat list just ask and I will tell you.

After the initial 6 week period on the Post Op Diet, you can start introducing other things but it needs to be done slowly as some things can still block the stoma.

Also please don’t let fear get in the way of you enjoying food. For all of us stoma formation has saved lives and improved the quality of life. I know many ostomates that can & do eat all food groups without consequence so after the initial 6 weeks please eat what you wish and keep a food diary should the inevitable happen and a blockage takes centre stage.

What I eat now 15 months post ileostomy surgery

I would advise to keep a food diary as that is good at pin pointing foods that aggravate your stoma. I still keep one 15 months post-op purely due to my Crohns disease and the fact my body picks and chooses what it doesn’t like.

Im hoping those of you post-op or going for surgery find this useful. Any questions then please don’t be afraid to ask.

Many thanks for reading this post

Louise aka CrohnsFighting XxX

 

 

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What to expect after your surgery

So, you’ve been told you need to have an ileostomy formed and the big day arrives for you to go down to theatre and have it formed. All the questions you were going to ask have flown through your ears and back out. You sit there sign the forms and get prepared for theatre and either walked down or wheeled down depending on a planned or emergency surgery.

What is an ileostomy?

An ileostomy is where your small bowel is pulled out through an opening in your tummy and stitched into place and that will have a stoma bag attached to it and that is now how your faecal matter will be exiting your body rather than its usual route.

DISCLAIMER
“I am not a medical professional this is purely based from personal experience and several surgeries”

What happens after surgery?

You will awaken from your surgery in the recovery room and advised your stoma formation was successful and the surgery went well.

You will also be rather hazy and on the drug train that will help with the initial after surgery pain. Honestly it is going to hurt, I can’t lie about that. It will be painful, but the pain medication will take off the edge.

The following day

You have awoken to a new day and you are more lucid and the nurse will want to have you up and out of bed. The nurse is normally an enhanced recovery nurse and studies now show the quicker you are up and about then the quicker you will heal and get home (sounds sadistic) but it is a proven method and cuts discharge times for patients going home and recovering more quickly.

The aim on day one is to get you out of the bed and sitting up in a chair for at least half an hour and then back to bed.

Pain medication

Most patients have one of two options for pain relief. One is an epidural or the other is self-administered pump to top up should you be in any pain. I personally stay away from the epidural and it’s a longer recovery time and it normally numbs your abdomen and legs, so walking isn’t normally an option until it is removed. But please make your own choice depending on your pain tolerance. I prefer the pain relief pump and I am normally off of all Iv pain medication within 48 hrs and back to oral medication.

Ng Tubes

Now not everyone will wake up with one of these delightful tubes, but should your bowel be inactive and frozen then this is in until you start having normal bowel sounds and your bowel is active. If you do wake with one of these then it will be nil by mouth until normal action resumes and they will have other options of getting fluids and nutrition into your body. The Ng tube will be used to pull out any fluid collection’s and gas build up via a syringe they attach to an outlet on the tube.

Walk the line

Most gastro wards have a lovely yellow or red line that goes around the outer hub of the ward in a rectangle. The aim before discharge is to have you be able to walk that without getting breathless and experiencing pain. I have walked this many time with bits attached to me as I find I recover better at home and want to get out of the hospital.

Catheters

You will have a catheter inserted when you are under anaesthetic and this will remain in place to catch your urine and measure the output until you are mobile and able to get to the toilet to pass urine as normal. Don’t be alarmed at this, you won’t feel it unless you catch the tube when moving on the bed.

Drains

You will wake up and have one or maybe two drains attached to you that have the tube stitched into your abdomen with a bottle or drainage pack attached to the bottom. This is purely to drain any fluid or excess blood from your abdomen caused by the initial surgery. Sometimes these are removed quickly or on the day of discharge as long as the drain isn’t draining. My advice for when having these removed is to have oral pain relief half hour prior to removal. The pain is a weird one having these removed, it’s like a pressure and then a pop and it’s all over and removed. The site is dressed and left to heal on its own.

All expelled bodily functions are monitored

So, you are thinking yes, the catheter has gone and that’s a step forward to going home “It’s a brilliant step”. However once removed you will still have to pee in a pot until they are happy with the tests run on that and your output is in conjunction with what you are taking in with fluids. No, you can’t cheat. This is essential and needs to be monitored to make sure it is deemed safe for you to be sent home.

Ileostomy output

Your ileostomy output Is monitored until the day of discharge. They will not discharge you until your output has reached a porridge like consistency and the output is in line with what you are in-taking. There is food to help with this and that will be on a following post.

First bag change

If this is your first stoma then apologies as this will be daunting for you. General consensus from my experience is that if you can’t change your bag then discharge won’t be possible until you have a handle on the change. The stoma nurse will sit with you and show you how to change the appliance. Should you not feel comfortable with changing it then they will do that for you. The stoma will not be hurt by you changing it. It has no feeling. It may take several attempts but once you have mastered changing it yourself then that will be a weight off of your mind.

Stitch removal

It is normal to have the stitches removed from around the ileostomy site prior to discharge. This does not hurt and it’s better to have them removed as healing tissue can make them pull tight and cause discomfort. Please make sure you speak to your stoma nurse about this as some issues with leaking stomas and sore sites post-op are related to stitches not being removed and healthy tissue growing over the stitches.

Clothing

Track suit bottoms, leggings or good old-fashioned pyjamas will be your friend as they are light and don’t impact the surgery sites and rub on healing wounds.

Warfarin injections

Due to the surgery and risk of blood clots due to bed rest then these are injected once a day to thin your blood and prevent the risk of blood clots. You will also have to wear teddy stockings both for your entire hospital stay and for a month after discharge at home. They will also send you home with a 4-week supply of these to inject daily with a waste disposal for the needles.

Discharge

For you to be discharged you have to have a collective all clear from your consultant, surgeon and stoma nurse. Your stoma nurse has the final say and you won’t be discharged until she agrees that you are ok with your stoma and with its output and you are eating well.

I am hoping you found this informative and not to daunting.

Many Thanks
Louise aka CrohnsFighting Xx

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