The first alimentary indication .

• The first 15 days = only liquids
• The next 15 days =
  puree
• Then :

1) Eat calmly, chew well.

2) Take time to eat

3) Take small mouthfuls
And try to eat with taste.

4) Stop eating when you begin to feel full

5) Have three meals a day consisting of solid food
The total quality of the food being limited, it’s important that you choose health-giving food.

6) Consequently, don’t eat sugar, as little greasy food as possible.
Therefore, no sweets, no cookies, no pastry.

7) It is advised not to drink during meals but it is necessary to drink between meals. Every day you must consume half a litre of dairy products and a litre and a half of fatless water broth, spring water without carbonic acid, tea or coffee without sugar. Avoid drinking fizzy water.

8) Don’t drink calorie rich liquids such as milk shakes and soft drinks containing sugar.

9) · The first months after the operation, avoid food containing a lot of fibres, stones and pips, such as nuts, tough meat, roughly chopped vegetables, citric fruit (grape fruit, oranges, lemon, mandarins).

It is preferable to squeeze fruit, which contain fibres before consuming it, and to filter the juice properly.

You will observe some food is not easily accepted. This varies from one patient to another (for example, tough meat can cause problems). Test your food carefully

 

Post-operatory dietary advice

The implantation of the banding is the first step towards a major readjustment in the life style of the patient.
Post- operatory convalescence corresponds to its time of adaptation when the patient learns to change his dietary habits as well as the patient learns to change his dietary habits and his life-style.

Patients will first have to understand the necessity of chewing their food well. They will also have to understand the importance of practising a physical activity for their well being and of including this in their daily life.
During the period of the first post-operatory month, patients will only be able to consume their food if it is in a liquid form or put through a mixer. This will give more time to the body to adapt itself and time for a fibre shell to form itself around the banding, which will keep it firmly in place. By introducing solid food too early in the diet of the patient, the risk of dislocation is increased and the risk of the banding sliding, and consequently the risk of stretching the gastric pocket, which would require another surgical intervention.

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