Diet After Gall Bladder Surgery

Follow Good Post Gall Bladder Surgery Practices

Your diet after gall bladder surgery is important to successful post gall bladder surgery recovery. Doctors today typically perform less invasive laparoscopic gall bladder surgery; you need to follow good after-surgery practices.

To treat digestive system diseases most effectively, you need a healthy digestion. And a healthy digestive system is necessary for overall health. If you have stomach, liver or gall bladder problems, see your medical doctor for a full assessment.

Due to our diet of refined, high fat, high sugar foods, gall bladder problems in our society are fairly common. If changing your diet does not help with gall bladder attacks or gall bladder stones, then surgery (typically laparoscopic gall bladder surgery) is one of the next steps.

If you have gall bladder problems, you need to visit your medical doctor and get his/her opinion. The gall bladder may need to be surgically removed (laparoscopic gall bladder surgery is common and minimally invasive but it is still surgery and has some risk) if it has become inflamed and infected or if gall bladder stones have built up in the bladder and are not being dislodged by changes to your diet (gall bladder disease diet) or by a gall bladder cleanse.

Unfortunately the removal of the gall bladder may not be the total solution to the problem. Many people still suffer from indigestion, diarrhea, nausea, bloating and more after the surgery. This is often because you still need to change your diet! So consider making life style changes that allow your diet after gall bladder surgery to become the basis of a new, healthy way of eating.

Diet After Gall Bladder Surgery

• Ensure that you are supplementing your diet with Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids (for example, fish oils and flax seed and hemp seed oils). Take these either in a pill or supplement form or in salad dressings.

  You can also buy hemp and flax seed in seed or ground form and use as an additive to your cereal. Why Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids? Because they help to eliminate unhealthy LDL cholesterol (also one of the residues that cause gall bladder stones).

• Apple cider vinegar and/or lemon juice are good additions to your diet. Start your morning, and finish your day, with a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar OR lemon juice in a glass of room temperature water. If you can handle it, add two or three tablespoons of virgin olive oil. Mix and drink.

  Try to do this in the evening too. The acid helps break down the digestive bile acids and the oil seems to help eliminate gall bladder stones (or now that the gall bladder is removed, stones that are created by the residue of bile from the liver).

• You need healthy fiber. Eat the daily requirement of fruits and vegetables: 3 fruits and at least 3 to 5 cups of vegetables. Good fruit choices are blueberries, cranberries, apples, grapes, mango, and pineapple. Good vegetable choices are beets, sweet potatoes or yams, cucumbers, avocados, broccoli and green beans.

Post Gall Bladder Surgery

For the first couple of weeks, your diet after gall bladder surgery should not include hard to digest foods, such as red meats and high fat foods (including high fat dairy products). Introduce foods gradually: start with poultry, low-fat fish such as cod or halibut (but not deep fried), non fat yoghurt. Then add more complex whole grains and legumes.

Even after your post gall bladder surgery period of two to three weeks, be careful and limit your consumption of hard-to-digest red meat, refined carbohydrates, high fat methods of cooking your food, chocolate (which can irritate your stomach), and alcohol (which can also irritate your stomach). Carbonated beverages and spicy foods are also considered to be risky food choices long term for your diet after gall bladder surgery - eliminate them from your diet.

Prevent Gall Bladder Issues

If someone in your family has had gall bladder issues, there is an increased risk for you to also have similar problems. Focus on improving your digestive system health by eating a healthy low fat diet and using herbal remedies to provide you with the nutrients your system needs for good gall bladder and liver health.

We recommend Native Remedies 100% herbal product Liver Dr. which is known to improve functioning of the liver and promote health. This holistic treatment is FDA approved.

Always discuss any supplements or health concerns with your medical doctor.

To read more, visit:

• Digestive System Anatomy
• Gall Bladder Cleanse
• Gall Bladder Disease Diet
• Healing Heartburn Holistically
• Heartburn Indigestion Symptoms
• Herbs for Digestion
• Home Remedy For Constipation
• Natural Cure For Indigestion
• What Causes Constipation?