What are the dietary precautions after cesarean section

You must pay attention to the dietary precautions after a cesarean section, which is also to better restore your health. After a cesarean section, you should take some liquid gas-relieving foods, such as carrot soup, which can enhance gastrointestinal motility. On the first day after the operation, you can mainly eat porridge, rice porridge and other foods.

1. Mothers who give birth by caesarean section have higher nutritional requirements than those who give birth normally. The anesthesia, laparotomy and other treatments required during the operation are a blow to the body itself. Therefore, mothers who have a caesarean section will recover more slowly after delivery than those who give birth normally. The dietary arrangements after caesarean section should be made according to the actual situation.

2. After a cesarean section, there is a wound and the intra-abdominal pressure suddenly decreases, the abdominal muscles relax, and the intestinal peristalsis slows down, which makes it easy to have constipation. Therefore, the diet arrangement after a cesarean section should be different from that after a natural birth. After 6 hours, it is advisable to take some liquid gas-generating foods (such as carrot soup, etc.) to enhance intestinal peristalsis, promote gas discharge, reduce abdominal distension, and make urination and defecation smooth. Postpartum women should also eat less or no foods that are easily fermented and produce a lot of gas, such as sugars, soybeans, soy milk, starch, etc., to prevent abdominal bloating.

3. Passing gas is a signal that the new mother can eat. After the mother has passed gas, her diet can be changed from liquid to semi-liquid. The food should be nutritious and easy to digest. Such as egg soup, porridge, noodles, etc., and then the diet will gradually return to normal depending on the mother's physical condition.

On the first day after surgery, the patient is generally fed with liquid food such as porridge, rice noodles, lotus root powder, fruit juice, fish soup, and meat soup, which are given in 6-8 doses. On the second day after the operation, you can eat some thin, soft, and rotten semi-liquid food, such as minced meat, liver paste, fish, rotten noodles and rice, etc., eat 4-5 times a day to ensure adequate intake. After the third day, you can eat a normal diet, and pay attention to supplementing high-quality protein, various vitamins and trace elements. You can choose 7-8 taels of staple food, 250-500ml of milk, 3-4 taels of meat, 1-2 eggs, 1-2 pounds of vegetables and fruits, and about 30 grams of vegetable oil. This will effectively ensure adequate nutrition for the mother and the baby.