Diet After Gastric Sleeve Surgery

As in every bariatric surgery, after gastric sleeve surgery and its recovery period, the patient's eating habits will have to change.
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1.After surgery, the stomach will only have 100-150 milliliters so the subject will feel full very quick. Overeating will enlarge the stomach again.
2.For the first three to four weeks the patient is allow to eat only low caloric foods.
3.Subjects must avoid sugars, especially those contained in liquids, because they will dramatically slow the weight loss process. This kind of sugars does not represent a real nutrient for one's body.
4.Fat foods and fried foods must be avoided because they are harder to digest and have low amounts of minerals and vitamins that your body needs.
5.Patients shouldn't eat greedily; every bit must be well chewed and slowly swallowed. In the moment the person feel saturation, he/she must stop from eating. If vomiting occurs after many meals consecutively, a patient may develop a dehydrating symptom. In this case, subjects will be recommended to drink liquids containing electrolytes for a while and only when they will feel better to restart eating solid foods.

6.After gastric sleeve surgery patients must take care about every day administration of the necessary quantity of fluids, preferably water. The recommended dose is at least 1.5 liters or more, depending of each individual's stature and weight.
7.If certain symptoms occur like headache, nausea, vomiting, dark urine the patient must inform his doctor.
8.Never drinking fluids 15 minutes before having a meal or 30-40 minutes after, is recommended; these might enlarge the stomach size again and make the it's digestive juices to become to diluted for a proper digestion.
9.Subjects of gastric sleeve surgery will not eat more than three meals a day and, only if they're really hungry; will take one single snack between meals. Every food patients eat must be reach in nutrients. Usually one of the meals must be especially reach in proteins. The main foodstuffs patients have to ingest are those rich in proteins, fruits, vegetables and cereals.
10.Checking intolerance to certain foods that might appear after gastric sleeve surgery is also important. If one type of food is not well tolerated patient should take one week break before trying it again. Different types of foods must be introduced gradually and each one at a time (meal), never combined, in order to avoid indigestion.
11.For those persons who do not tolerate lactates there are supplements that will help their digestion.
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