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What should I eat after rectal cancer surgery?
Rectal cancer is related to long-term high-fat and low-fiber diet, heredity, intestinal polyps and ulcerative colitis. Radical resection is the main treatment. If the rectal cancer is located in a low position, less than 7cm away from the anus, an artificial anus should be made after the tumor is removed, that is, an abdominal colostomy. Postoperative diet nursing plays a very important role in patients' early recovery. Specifically, patients should pay attention to the following points in diet.

★ After 3 ~ 4 days of fasting, intestinal peristalsis will recover after artificial anus is exhausted. When bubbles overflow from stoma, you can enter a liquid diet and choose digestible and nutritious foods, such as vegetable soup, rice soup and lotus root powder. It is best to eat less and eat more, once every 2 ~ 3 hours, 6 ~ 7 meals a day.

★ After one week, you can enter a semi-liquid diet and choose foods rich in protein and low in cellulose, such as noodles, porridge and wonton. And you have to eat a few meals, 5 ~ 6 meals a day.

★ After two weeks, you can eat digestible, low-residue, fast coarse grains and fiber-rich vegetables, such as celery, to reduce the burden on the intestines.

★ In order to facilitate ostomy care, it is best not to choose the following foods. Foods that are highly irritating to the intestines, such as cold drinks, raw or incompletely cooked foods; It is best not to drink alcoholic beverages; Foods that are easy to produce gas, such as onions, sweet potatoes, broccoli, beans, radishes, etc. Foods that are prone to odor, such as onions, eggs, chocolate, onions, shrimp, etc. ; Foods that are difficult to digest and easy to cause blockage, such as persimmons, raisins, dried fruits, walnuts, fried foods, etc. Loose stool's food, such as curry, coffee, garlic, essence, etc.

★ After discharge, patients should have a balanced diet, easy to digest nutrition, live a regular life, pay attention to food hygiene at ordinary times, do not eat raw, cold, hard, fried and pickled foods, avoid alcohol and tobacco, and form a good habit of regular defecation.