Post Gastric Balloon Procedures
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Post-Procedure Instructions for Gastric Balloon Patients
Our gastric balloon program requires you to follow a
post-operative diet to help you achieve your weight loss goals. The
procedure will only be effective in weight loss if you adhere to certain
dietary choices. For the most part, this procedure will serve to train you
to adopt healthier food choices.
You must be in contact with your Weight-Loss Coach (http://be-slim.ca)
and report weekly (usually on Thursdays) for personal counselling and or
group sessions.
Your Weight-Loss Coach may have already given you a
pre-procedure diet to follow. Immediately after your Gastric Balloon
procedure, you must follow a purely liquid diet. This will run for three
days, at which point, you will begin eating soft food for the next ten days.
After that, you will be able to go back to normal eating, albeit with
reduced portions as a result of the gastric balloon surgery.
0 TO 4
DAYS: PURE FLUIDS
After surgery, you will be advised to start taking
multivitamins and mineral supplements. Centrum Chewable and Calcichew are
two recommended brands. You want to adopt this habit for the next six months
that you have the balloon in your stomach. During the first three days
following surgery, you are to take only liquids. Go for at least eight cups
of fluids a day. You want to sip slowly to give your body time to grow
accustomed to the balloon.
Suggested
liquids in the first four days:
·
Drink 8 Glasses of water daily. Be
wary of your potential to become dehydrated if you are vomiting. If you
have any problems or concerns call the number on the card you were given on patient release-to-home-care at any time 24/7.
·
Fruit Juices (No Sugar Added): Apple, Grape, Cranberry, Cran-Apple, and Cran-Grape
juice.
·
Semi-skimmed milk one pint daily substitute soy milk or almond milk.
·
Herbal teas
·
Diluted fruit juice one part juice to one part water
·
Broth: Clear Beef, Chicken, or Vegetable.
Others: Decaff Coffee (artificial sweeteners okay -
Skim milk or Coffeemate Non-Dairy Creamer okay), Decaff Tea, Sugar Free
Jell-0, Sugar Free Popsicles, No Sugar Added frozen Juice Bars, Sugar Free
Koolaid, Crystal Light, Gatorade; Propel (Gatorade
light), Fuze Slenderize drinks; and
water.
4 TO 10
DAYS
At this point, you can reintroduce soft food or
well-blended food in your diet. Regular meals are in small portions. You
want to use a tea plate in lieu of your dinner plate to control the amount.
Eat no more than
the volume of your fist per meal.
It’s also
important that you start enforcing the healthy diet advice that your
Weight-Loss Coach/Dietitian assigned to you specifically. Each patient is
different.
Eat three (four if necessary at the start) small meals
throughout the day and avoid hard fruits and vegetables for the moment. It’s
also a good idea to stay away from heavily seasoned food and continue
drinking semi-skimmed milk (Soy or almond milk might even be better for
you.) At least half a pint of skimmed milk will do.
Suggested meals:
(No white potato, no bread; no rice, no white of any kind except skimmed
milk.)
Everything in
a maximum of 1 to 2 tbsp portions unless otherwise specified
Breakfast: 3
tbsp porridge and 150 ml semi-skimmed milk
Lunch and dinner:
lean meat, blended egg with gravy, mashed sweet-potato, and blended
vegetables
· In
between meals: blended fruit or low-fat yoghurt
·
Before bedtime: blended fruit and or berries
· In
between meals, you can drink tea, diluted fruit juice, or coffee.
After 10
days
You can now start going back to a normal diet but
you’ll have to avoid pasta as it tends to "stick" to the balloon. It’s also
advisable that you drink water right after meals so as to rinse the gastric
balloon. Your dietitian will also advice you to continue your intake of
multivitamins and mineral supplements.
Avoid lying down right after eating, and in case you
vomit right after taking your meal, you want to go back to a soft diet for
at least three meals.
Suggested Solid Food:
Breakfast: ¼
pint of fruit juice (unsweetened), whole wheat cereal, a slice of toast and
low-fat spread, or 3 tbsp porridge in ¼ pint semi-skimmed milk
Lunch and
dinner:
· 60
g lean meat, baked beans, a slice of bread
· 1
to 2 tbsp pasta or cooked rice
· 1
to 2 tbsp mashed sweet-potato
· 2
boiled eggs the size of a small sweet-potato and without fat
· A
serving of low-fat yoghurt or fruit/berries