Whether because of a virus, a bacterial infection, as a consequence of a digestive disease, an episode of stress or side effects of certain medicines, having liquid evacuations frequently is one of the most uncomfortable symptoms that can be suffered. If it is acute, for a punctual cause, diarrhea will disappear within a few days.
If this is not the case, the cause of diarrhea and remedy it will be debuted to the doctor for diagnosis. A diarrhea that lengthens over time, if neither the hydration nor the diet is taken, increase the risk of Dehydration.
What is an astringent diet exact and in situations it is recommended?
Ester Nadal, Dietitian-Nutritionist at the Hospital of Sant Pau and member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, explains that “an astringent diet consists of once Diet low in the following elements:
- Fat
- Lactose
- Flatulent foods or irrites of the mucosa
- Non -fermentable fiber (that is, the one that is not soluble in water and is not fermented in the colon, but makes organnnical residue, the volume of the feces and the frequency of the depositions) shower)
It is the type of feeding that is recommended before acute diarrhea (1-2 days of duration), independent of the causes.
Possible causes of diarrhea
Before fully addressing the characteristics of the astringent diet, the expert points out that a diarrheal process can owe to diverse causes:
- Infectious origin (viruses, bacteria or parasites) and traveler’s diarrhea
- Irritable intestine syndrome or an infamatory intestinal disease
- Taking certain medications, such as antibiotics or, logic, laxatives
- Addison coolness (adrenal insufficiency)
With low -waste astringent diet
In 2021 the College of Dietitians-Nutritionists of Catalonia (Codicunat) developed a consensus work by changing the common nomenclature of many usual diets in the amit of nutrition. The objective of the time of the establishment a relationship between the diet and its characteristic. It was thus intended to flee from little precise denominations, such as astringent diet.
The clinical denomination of ‘Diet with Bajo was coined, and it was specified that objective is the of increasing the transit time reducing intestinal fecal volume. It is moderate diarrhea indada.
Recommended foods in an astringent diet
Nadal lists which child this -astringent areas that are recommended. «They would be what they contribute to the improvement of diarrhea and that have in common that son low in insoluble fiber, lactose and fat,» he says.
These son some examples of adequate foods for an astringent diet:
- Yogurt, fresh cheese, curdled
- Bird meat (chicken, turkey) and white fish (always well cooked or complete facts)
- Cooked or tortilla eggs
- Quince and peach in syrup
- Banana, apple and pear without skin
- Rice, white bread, pasta
- Water, infusions, misfortunes
- Olive oil
- Potato, carrot, pumpkin
By ootro -LADLA, incorporation agreed to the food diet Rich in soluble fibersince «they absorb liquid and go to a help to the formation, new, of the fecal bolus.» We are having:
- Cooked oats (type porridge)
- Rice semolina
- Boiled potato starch, cooked carrot or very mature banana
- Apple pectin without cooked skin (compote)
- Cranberries or raspberries prepared with hydrated chia seeds (they provide mucilages)
- Seeds (linen and chia):
- Applying soaking, decocate, dying …
- Yogurt with hydrated chia
- Decoccon of linen seeds (leaving 15 minutes of rest and prior filtering)
Ester Nadal highlights the need to make several meals a day, but of small quantity. «It is important to make about 5-6 daily thickness of small quantity, chew well, eat quiet, make simple cooked (without fried or rebobes), temperate and sajoned with salt and few spices,» he explains.
Prohibited foods in an astringent diet
Until they do not send repeated deposits, it is suggested to avoid foods, since diarrhea could worsen:
- Milk, ice cream
- Wet and fried fried fruits
- Sweets, pastries
- Citrus fruits
- Legumes
- Bread or comprehensive paste
- Very cold and soft drinks
- Flatulent vegetables
- Aspartamo and Sorbitol
Liquid diet during the first 12 hours
Before an acute diarrhea episode, the expert suggests leaving the first 8-12 hours based on liquid diet. After that time, you can start the astringent diet. The reason is to allow organism, the first thing to recover liquids and electrolytes. As Nadal explains, «it is done to avoid the desquilibro of these, dehydration and hypoglycemia.» The safest option not to take risks son oral rehydratacia sera that we can buy in agricity.
The recommendation to make small and frequent swimming of the serum, for 4 hours and every 30 minutes. «After the first 12 hours, it can be valued to include water, flavored waters, water with gas, infusions, jelly, miserable soft broths, pulp without pulp or liquefied, fiber, or hile poles,» Ditalla Esther Nadal.
How long should an astringent diet follow?
The astringent diet begins when you can have less than 4 depositions per day and continue until 1-2 daily. “A measure that deposits have a more compact form and reduce 1-2 times a day, we can normalize the food, starting with a Bla diet. It is important to do so programmingly until the frequency and type of feces are normalized. It will be important to be attentive to the symptoms and, if worse, return to the astringent diet, ”he warns.
If diarrhea, for any case, persists, you always have to consult with a doctor. It is important to keep in mind that the astringent diet must be punctual and for a very specific situation. “It is a specific diet for acute diarrhea situations, or in acute episodes of chronic diarrhea. I do not advise it outside this symptomatology. Recall that it is a low fiber, fat and lactose diet and that, maintained in the long term can behave certain nutritional deficits, ”Nadal emphasizes.
Example of an astringent diet menu
| Astringent diet for one day | |
| Breakfast | Toasted white bread with fresh cheese roasted apple with cinnamon (it can be left for mid -morning) |
| Meal | Salered rice with chicken and lactose -free chicken and carrot |
| Snack | Turkey crepe with smear cheese |
| Dinner | Hake with baked yogurt potato with lactose with banana and cinnamon (it can be left as a resopon) |
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Any change in the diet, if it lasts for a long time, can affect the intake of key nutrients. That is why it is important that there is supervision by the dietitian-nutritionist.
Nadal Ester. Nutritionist dietitian at the Hospital of Sant Pau and member of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. He has worked as dietitian-nutritionist at Duran I Reynals, Barcelona for Catering Arcasa (1999-2004). It is a dock of the Nutrition subject within the framework of the Postgraduate of Naturapatía del Insitut Heilpraktiker, Barcelona. (2001-2006). Until last year he was responsible for the management of the Hospital Food Service at the Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, for Catering Arcasa (2004-2022).
