Among the medical workers, the Meilengracht diet (the composition of the menu is given below) is very popular, which greatly alleviates the painful condition in peptic ulcer disease, promotes healing and scarring of stomach and duodenal ulcers. In the article, we will consider this diet food in detail . Imagine an example of a weekly approximate menu on the Meilengracht diet.
What is peptic ulcer?
Peptic ulcer disease is a fairly common disease that can be accompanied by gastric bleeding. Often has a chronic course with exacerbations in the offseason. During such periods, an ulcer appears on the walls of the mucous membrane of the stomach or duodenum, which can only be seen during radiography.
The main symptoms of the disease are frequent heartburn, sharp pains in the abdomen, which can be half an hour after eating or the so-called later, when a person experiences pain from hunger, that is, 3 hours after the last meal.
Usually, peptic ulcer disease indicates an improper lifestyle, frequent nervous stress, the presence of bad habits, such as smoking or alcohol abuse. Subject to such a disease are people who do not comply with the regime of food intake, eating in a hurry than anything - sandwiches or junk food.
The basic principles of diet
In 1935, the Danish clinical doctor Meilengracht conducted research among patients with peptic ulcer disease. He noticed that the patient's condition improves if he is fed with protein-rich foods.
Consider the basic principles of the Meilengracht diet:
- Food should not irritate the walls of the stomach, either mechanically, thermally, or chemically. This means that food should not have large and hard pieces, it is advisable to grind it. Nowadays it is convenient to use a blender. Food should be warm, not cold (below 20 degrees) or hot (more than 42 degrees). Acidic, salty and spicy foods negatively affect the walls of the stomach, and in the presence of ulcers cause sharp pain up to bleeding.
- Food should be fractional and frequent. Approximately every two hours, you need to put something in your mouth, otherwise hunger pains will begin. This is due to the fact that gastric juice strongly irritates the gastric mucosa, as it has an acidic environment. If there is food in the stomach, it will bind this acid, protecting the mucous membrane from irritation.
- There should be a sufficient amount of nutrients in food, especially proteins, which not only have a binding effect in reaction with gastric acid, but also help to heal the ulcer itself. It should be balanced, to provide adequate nutrition for a sick person.
Menu Features
The special benefits of the Meilengracht diet are for stomach bleeding. When the ulcer is located above the vessel in the wall of the stomach, then when it grows, bleeding into the cavity of the stomach can occur. At the same time, a person experiences general weakness, nausea, which can result in bloody vomiting. In this case, the lips and fingertips turn pale, the pressure decreases, and the pulse quickens. In an acute situation, a person can lose consciousness and even fall into a coma.
Meilengracht suggested, with slight bleeding, which does not require resection of the stomach, a completely nutritious diet, enriched with a large amount of protein food. The proportion of ascorbic acid and phylloquinones is also increased.
During bleeding, food is allowed only in a liquid or puree state, without solid particles. It is best to whip food with a blender or wipe through a fine sieve. It is recommended that butter, dairy products (milk, cream and sour cream), soft-boiled eggs, boiled mashed vegetables, beef and fish, whipped mashed soups, fruit and berry jelly (non-acidic), but it is necessary to strain them through a sieve, so as not to accidentally I got a small bone from a berry. Rice and semolina can be cooked from porridges before boiling. You can drink tea or broth of rose hips, not too sweet.
Features of the menu after surgery
If an operation was performed on a patient for peptic ulcer in a stomach ulcer, then the first days should not be taken at all. Then the Meilengracht diet menu is assigned. It is strictly forbidden to eat any bread. It is permissible by permission of the attending physician not earlier than on the 6th or 7th day after surgery.
Meal should be fractional, in small portions, approximately every two hours. There must be at least 6 meals per day. Protein food is up to 150 grams, and carbohydrate-containing food, on the contrary, is reduced to 300 grams per day. There is as little sugar as possible, since these are easily digestible carbohydrates. Vitamins need to be added, but milk should be diluted slightly with water. Patients after surgery to resect the stomach should adhere to a diet for up to six months.
Reviews about the diet of Meilengracht diet
According to research conducted by the AMS, the reviews about the effectiveness of the Danish clinician's diet are excellent. The very next day after the cessation of nausea and vomiting with blood, patients were given boiled meat, steam omelet, semolina with milk, mashed boiled carrots and white stale bread without a crust. The patient's condition improved rapidly, bleeding stabilized, and hemoglobin improved.
Sample menu for the week
Meals are divided into 6 times. Breakfast - at 8.00, lunch - at 10.30, lunch - at 13.00, afternoon - at 15.30, dinner - at 18.00 and late dinner - at 20.30. Consider by day of the week a sample menu for the week of Meilengracht diet.
Monday:
- boiled oatmeal;
- broccoli and carrot vegetable puree ;
- slimy buckwheat soup and turkey souffle;
- chicken omelet steam omelet;
- strawberry jelly;
- curd souffle.
Tuesday:
- buckwheat porridge;
- soft-boiled egg;
- chopped boiled fish and beets;
- mucous soup with buckwheat;
- corn porridge;
- mashed boiled apples (peel and seeds to remove).
Wednesday:
- boiled oatmeal;
- milk jelly;
- slimy soup with pearl barley;
- boiled vegetables - beets, carrots and kohlrabi cabbage, mashed in mashed potatoes;
- curd souffle;
- semolina.
Thursday:
- corn porridge in milk;
- boiled beetroot mashed and grated boiled veal;
- boiled potato puree;
- mucous soup of rice and chicken (mashed);
- buckwheat porridge;
- boiled peach mousse.
Friday:
- rice porrige;
- soft pear jelly;
- slimy oatmeal soup;
- vegetable puree with turkey meat;
- milk jelly;
- a decoction of rosehip berries with added sugar.
Saturday:
- buckwheat grated porridge;
- milk jelly;
- slimy rice soup with turkey;
- vegetable puree from carrots and broccoli;
- fish souffle with vegetables grated on a blender;
- jelly made of milk.
Sunday:
- semolina;
- chicken omelet steam omelet;
- rabbit meat souffle and vegetable puree (potatoes, zucchini and carrots);
- slimy rice soup;
- mashed beets and fish souffle;
- banana puree.
This is just an approximate menu. You can vary in different ways by adding pumpkin and chicken, beef and quail meat, a boiled egg in a bag, cauliflower, etc.
Conclusion
The diet is useful not only for bleeding with peptic ulcer disease, but also for gastritis and other gastrointestinal problems. By following this menu, you can quickly restore normal condition, get rid of pain and symptoms of peptic ulcer. Be healthy!