Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Eat After Food Poisoning
- What should you eat after vomiting?
- Water
- ORS
- Soft food
- What foods and drinks should be avoided after vomiting?
Medical Video: How to Eat After Food Poisoning
Whatever the cause, vomiting can make dehydration and hunger because all the contents of the stomach have come out. Now after vomiting, can you eat as usual or do you have a special dietary rule?
What should you eat after vomiting?
Doctors and health experts advise you not to eat immediately after vomiting. The goal is to give the stomach a short break after draining all its contents. So, don't eat or drink anything for several hours after vomiting.
After a few hours, you can eat and drink ...
Water
Drinking lots of water can help restore lost body fluids after vomiting. This can prevent dehydration, which is the most common complication of vomiting.
The liquids you can drink are water, broth soup, fruit juice diluted with water, or fresh tea. Adults who vomit also drink isotonic drinks.
Pure fruit juice, milk, and most other sweet drinks are not recommended because sugar can cause cramps or diarrhea.
ORS
If the vomiting is severe until dehydrated, adults and children can drink ORS solutions to restore fluids while balancing electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, and bicarbonate which are important for the body.
ORS is especially important for children and is highly recommended because complications of dehydration occur more quickly in children.
American Family Physicians recommend that children drink ORS solutions 10-60 minutes after vomiting. Except for babies who are exclusively breastfed or use formula milk.
Soft food
After you no longer vomit and drink enough water, you are allowed to eat. However, choose soft-textured foods such as bananas, team rice, or bread. These foods are also low in fiber and starch for "Tie" food so that it makes the stool solid.
In addition to rice, bread and bananas, you can also eat broth soup, boiled potatoes, oatmeal, or whole wheat crackers.
These foods also replace nutrients lost after vomiting, such as bananas that contain potassium and potatoes or oatmeal which is high in carbohydrates.
When your body's condition has improved, you can gradually return to normal foods, including fruits and vegetables.
What foods and drinks should be avoided after vomiting?
If you vomit because of certain foods, then after vomiting you should avoid these foods.
But generally, there are certain foods or drinks that you need to avoid after vomiting. Especially 24-48 hours after the last vomiting. Anything?
- Alcohol.
- Caffeine (soda, energy drinks, or coffee).
- Spicy food.
- Foods high in fiber.
- Milk and milk products.
- Fatty food.
- Fried.
- Nicotine (cigarettes or other tobacco products).
- Spicy food.
- Pure fruit juice
- Over-the-counter oral diarrhea medicines.
