Nursing Students General Students
Published Apr 29, 2007
ishy25
26 Posts
heed help about diet therapy for acute gastritis, my clinical instructor ask us to do some diet therapy in our patient, and i find it hard to do, my client only prefers eating/drinking milk, mashed vegetables and baby cereals??
canoehead, BSN, RN
6,890 Posts
The brat diet- bananas, rice, applesauce, toast
When I was a student it was a bratty diet with tea and plain yogurt added on but I haven't heard about it including those items in a long time.
Milk can exacerbate diarrhea, and a peds GI doc I once knew forbid her patients from drinking apple juice for the same reason. Applesauce was OK.
Your patient could have mashed fruit, rice cereal, and some cut up toast as a finger food. No jam on the toast but a little jelly is OK.
AggieNurse99, BSN, RN
245 Posts
I'm sorry, this is a pet peeve!!!! The 4 foodstuffs that have been proven to irritate the gastric mucosa are: Caffeine (chocolate), black pepper, EtOH, and tobacco smoke. Evidence-based does not only apply to nurses, but to other health disciplines too. http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/aha/aha_gastriti_crs.htm
The last time I browsed the nutrition journals on this, the jury was still out on spices like cayenne pepper, jalepenos, etc. May or may not be a good idea depending on your patient's tolerance.