What can I eat after a gastroscopy?

Nowadays, life is fast-paced and stressful. For a better future, everyone is rushing forward regardless of everything. This makes it easy to ignore the health of the body. As a result, more and more people suffer from stomach problems. For gastritis and gastric ulcers, the best way to check is gastroscopy. This examination technology is very mature and has low risks. It is the gold standard for gastrointestinal diseases. So what should you prepare for a gastroscopy? What can you eat after the examination? Let's learn about it together.

Generally, the patient needs to fast for more than 6 hours before undergoing a gastroscopy. If you are having a gastroscopy tomorrow, you cannot eat breakfast tomorrow. After gastroscopy, you should not eat or drink for two hours. After two hours, you can eat semi-liquid food, such as porridge, noodles, etc., and you can resume normal diet the next day. Patients who have undergone endoscopic removal of diseased tissue or endoscopic mucosal injection should abstain from food and water for four hours after the operation. You can drink a small amount of warm water after four hours. You must eat semi-liquid food for dinner and three meals the next day, and avoid raw, hard, hot, and sweet food to facilitate wound healing.

After a colonoscopy, patients often experience digestive tract reactions such as nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. Sometimes people may feel aversion to food, and become irritable and depressed. Therefore, you need to give your stomach some time to correct itself after a gastroscopy. So, what foods should you eat after a gastroscopy? Here are some of the foods you should eat:

1. Eat some easily digestible food, such as: eat more boiled, stewed, steamed food, and less fried food.

2. Eat more lean pork, beef, rabbit meat or chicken and duck poultry. If you hate greasy meat, you can switch to non-meat foods rich in protein, such as cheese, omelets, etc.

3. Eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins and other foods that aid digestion, such as asparagus, kelp, seaweed, onions, garlic, mushrooms, etc.

In short, the treatment mainly lies in "nurturing". It is recommended that you pay attention to your life and eating habits. Your diet should be regular, light and easy to digest. Eat less fat, high-sugar, spicy, fried, raw, cold and hard stimulating foods and stimulating drinks such as coffee. Eat more carbohydrates, protein and vitamins. It is important to keep the bowels open. Increase physical exercise appropriately, keep your body and mind happy, and pay attention to rest.