What Food Do You Eat With A Stoma? | Ostomonday
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2017
- It's #Ostomonday! This week is all about food! Share your own answers to the following questions:
- Is your diet more or less varied than before your surgery?
- Are there any foods you tend to avoid?
- Have you ever had any food blockages since your surgery?
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It's been 3 weeks since my surgery and I've been able to eat everything. I eat a ton of fruits and vegetables. No problems! I cut out all fast food from my diet.
How are things now? Im going for ileostomy soon but love veg
Cheers! I have had an ileostomy for 37 years. I have really found that catering to my blood type diet has been amazing! There are many things that are not good for ostimates. A bit of research would be beneficial to you all!
I had a ileostomy, my life has improved 100%.
I'm so glad I can eat sweetcorn again **happy sobbing**
My husband is going back and forth between constipation and diarrhea. We are having a hard time figuring out what to feed him
I can eat pretty well everything now. I can definitely have more compared to before my surgery although I may need to chew certain things more than others.
ESSAY INCOMING:
I've had a problem with eating that I'm still not sure is related to the Crohns or not. Basically, I don't enjoy food, and I don't ever have an appetite. This was a big problem when recovering from surgery, because I was losing weight rapidly, and they couldn't keep me on the TPN long term. They decided to let me go home and try and address the eating problem in a community setting, rather than as an inpatient.
I was on a lot of supplements (Fortisip/Calogen/Vitasavoury) to try and stop my weight dropping, but it didn't work. I then decided to try Pepsi because it was full of calories, and I needed to hit that 2500 target somehow. The next day, I had a blockage that got so bad my small intestine burst, and I needed more surgery. Luckily the burst was quite close to the stoma, so they simply cut a few inches off my small intestine, and pulled through a new one. To this day I'm not sure if the Pepsi caused it.
The whole experience of being hospitalised again crushed me emotionally, I became catatonic, unable to even speak. I wouldn't eat, or drink, and even when I tried I couldn't. There was four weeks of this, and I continued to lose weight. They ran out of options so put a feeding tube in my nose, and down my throat. I was discharged with that in place, taking in 1500 calories per night over 12 hours.
I made it my mission to put back on all the weight I lost and more. Armed with some new antidepressants (Mirtazapine - an appetite stimulant) I would try to eat 1-2 bags of Haribo a day, plus all my supplements, plus normal meals. I managed to put on about 20kg (44lbs/3 stone) in about 2 months. They let me have the tube out, and since then, I've managed to carry on putting on weight, albeit not as fast. I do tend to eat five packs of cookies all in one sitting, and I have at least a bag of popcorn every day with lunch.
For me with food, even though I don't really like anything, I didn't avoid any foods at all. Mushrooms, Popcorn, Sweetcorn, Satay Chicken - I just ate anything that would give me calories, and apart from the Pepsi incident, haven't had any problems. Although, there was this one time I ate two large bags of salted popcorn, and a large bag of salted peanuts. What happened was my output (normally fluid) became completely dry and crumbly, like brown sugar. It was so dry, it stuck to the outside of the bag and pushed my stoma inside (inverted it). I was kinda freaking out about it, but fixed it by filling the bag up with water to mix with the output and clear the blockage. It worked, but I'm going to avoid salted peanuts from now on.
Phew, well done for making it all the way down here!
I made it all the way down.
Good to hear that you made it through.
I hope you're having a good day today.
I’m either blocked or pancaking. I’ve tried all diets. I’m so frustrated
Before I had my ileostomy I was in a low fat low fibre diet which I was on for 10 ish years. Now it's strange I'm allowed to eat pretty much whatever I like 😮😮😮
Hi Thaila I eat most things although i try and stick to a low fiber diet due to my out most of the time it's liquid so I try not to eat the things I now what will make things worse for me. Hope you have a great week. ☺🍔🍗🍕🍟🍇🍌Yum yum.😀
My surgeon and the dietitian said to eat whatever I want after my colostomy, which isn’t helping my weight 😩
I avoid skins
I can eat anything I want. I only limit my gas causing foods. I keep my volume of intake on the low side.
I've got to have surgery and got to have a bag on my stomach. im scared
Fruit and veggies don't bother me....corn doesn't digest well but doesn't cause a blockage
I hope you will still avoid the veg and fruit skins. They can really cause problems.
Can you eat oven chips chippy chips 3 weeks after surgery
I honestly find eating anything since my colon & rectum removal 2 years ago to be a royal hassle of chronic gut aches, countless hours spent in the bathroom, endless gas, & numerous sick days, & everyday embarrassment. Never again will I have any organs removed in order to prolong my life. Anyone who isn't bothered by it is a far stronger than I.
Had my surgery 2 weeks ago I used to eat brown bread and lots of brown rice now I’ve got to eat white bread and no brown rice nothing that can make you go to the toilet and get loose jacket potatoe skin is a no go nothing with skin on peel my apples when I can eat them you feel like your cheating on a diet ice cream yes cheese yes it’s so weird and snacks with salt on them to replace my salt in my body not allowing nuts or popcorn or sweet corn again and raisins lentils that’s what stage am at now it’s just leaning
What's YOUR favourite food to eat with a stoma? :)
why not cap off the stoma with ties , im doing it soon www.ostomycure.com
I guess it's pretty randomly asking but does anybody know a good website to watch newly released series online?
@Drew Ernest Ehh try flixportal. You can find it if you google :) -ben
@Ben Kashton thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) Appreciate it !!
@Drew Ernest no problem =)
rutabaga is not a good idea to eat. You can eat it but i get a fireworks in the bag afterwards. Other than that you can eat what you want.
Unless you've just had an operation on your bowel most people can eat anything with an ileostomy. I can't believe a stoma nurse told you that you had to avoid a whole list of foods. People are getting unnecessarily scared of eating foods especially the ones that are healthy for you and perhaps this is how this myth has arisen. Many people are secretly delighted at any hint that they can avoid fruit, vegetables, nuts etc because they hate them anyway. Ileostomy forced on me for 17 years no blockages ever. I eat nuts, popcorn, dried fruit, mushrooms and anything I like with no fear. Only thing that nearly caused a blockage is not on the avoid list. Chicken. That was only once.