After ostomy surgery, the first and the foremost thing is making your stoma and peristomal healthy. Therefore, to make it healthy, you have to clean it and take an appropriate diet. Your eating plan can destroy your overall health and the artificial opening. However, before leaving the hospital you should ask for healthy foods and a proper diet plan from your doctor. You should strictly follow that plan. Many of the meals make your stool too thick or too loose; therefore, it is your doctor who will suggest you’re the appropriate food items after the surgery.
After having an
Everyday Care and Diet Routine
After a few weeks of the surgery, you have to make your stool thickness normal with the help of soft and easily digestible meals. You should not drink too much water or juices so that your
After Three Weeks of the Surgery
After a few weeks, a patient can start eating meals three to four times a day. He has to take small foods. However, do not eat heavy and gastric meals. You should not eat processed food, meat, pork, onion, garlic, beans, pulses, potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, and dry fruits.
After the Healing of Stoma and Internal Organ
Once you start getting better, you can eat more food. However, before adopting any change in your diet, consult your doctor. Maybe you are still not better to intake heavy meals. But, after the approval of your health care, you can start eating meat, fish, and processed meals. However, you should not drink alcohol or any type of liquid. It may loosen your food and create a problem for your stoma and discharge. Moreover, you should drink too little water, so that your body starts dehydrating. Dehydration is the worst condition for an ostomate. A patient feels too much pain in stoma when it is dry or the body is dehydrated.
Routine Life After the Ostomy
Once your stoma gets healed, you can get back to your previous life routine. In the initial days, you have to take complete bed rest and say goodbye to social gatherings and traveling; however, after the recovery, you can start your previous activities without any hesitation.
Before doing exercise, swimming, or any other activity, you should wear an ostomy belt for the safety of stoma and its appliances. Due to the protective belt, the stoma pouch will not leak or move. It will make you comfortable and you can perform any activity.
If you have a permanent stoma, then you have to live your entire life with the stoma appliances. In this case, you should learn all precautionary measures and digestible diet plan from your nurse. Moreover, do not think that permanent ostomy will not allow you to perform previous activities. It is a myth famous among the ostomates. You can eat whatever you like. Moreover, everything is for ostomates either exercise, partying, traveling, shopping, swimming, playing, sexual life, and professional life.
