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Diverticulitis is a common disease of the bowel, in particular the large intestine. Diverticulitis develops from diverticulosis, which involves the formation of pouches on the outside of the colon. Diverticulitis results if one of these diverticula becomes inflamed. Diverticulitis most often affects middle-aged and elderly persons, though it can strike younger patients as...

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Liquid Diets

ralop
ralop
What is meant by this. Can we drink the ensure stuff, coffee, juices or is it just what ever our tummies can handle. How is the liguid diet helping for a few days??
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hi !

The Liquid Diet is for Clear Liquids..so the Bowels can Fully rest..No Dairy..No "Cloudy Juices" (Like Orange)..Just Clear Liquids..Docs may say Coffee is Ok..but it IS Very Acidic..so Keep that in mind.

Jello, Broth..Juices..for 2/3 Days til the Worst of the Pain has backed off..then Soft/Bland Foods Only til ur Off the Meds..then Slowly start adding in Regular Foods..NO Raw Veggies, or hard to Digest ,eats (Like Beef)_ for a Long time...til ur Really Feeling pretty good !!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Dark juices like grape, blackberry, and pomegranate are fairly low in acid and full of nutrician. Coffee and cranberry juice might be too acidic. Stay away from prune juice. It's very nutricious but even in small amounts it can really start things percolating. If you're plugged up and need to start things moving, two shot-glasses will do the trick but I wouldn't include it in a liquid diet. If you're on a "clear-liquid" diet the dark juices and broth are good. Coffee is a big 'if'. If you're on a liquid diet which isn't specified "clear-liquid" then Ensure would be ok and some soups like cream of chicken. Personally, after studying the labels on Ensure and SlimFast I found that SlimFast was higher in nutrician and the dry mix cans are much less expensive than Ensure and SlimFast in liquid form. If you can drink milk, I would go easy with it. Some dairy can irritate the colon. Yogurt and Buttermilk, however, have healthy enzymes and good bacteria (acidophylus) and don't irritate the colon like milk and cheese.