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Chronic small bowel obstruction from adhesions

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I am new to this discussion and am for the first time feeling somewhat hopeful. I had my first SBO on December 20th and was in the hospital for about 3 days. The doctor said it was most likely due to adhesions from a previous hernia repair I had back in 2011. When I googled it everything was doom and gloom and basically said I am going to die. I had a complete break down panic attack in the e.r. they said it can keep happening and so I am trying to research diets and things I can do to try and prevent it from continuing to happen. My husband died in 2019 from complications of diabetes and I still have 2 teen boys to finish raising so I have to figure out how to live with and through this. Thank you all for sharing your stories and giving me hope that this is not a death sentence

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I’m so sorry. While there’s not a strict diet per se, I myself am on a low/zero fiber diet, mainly liquid diet but I have a script for Kate Farms and Ensure nutritional shakes. I can’t handle fiber at all, really. I also eat a lot of soups, I eat mashed potatoes when I can, jello, broth, pudding, hot chocolate. Nothing with skins, nothing with seeds, no nuts. Little bites of a soft diet if you can tolerate it. If you feel an obstruction coming on, switch to a clear liquid diet (broth, jello, water, tea). You can google low fiber diet, or a soft diet

I'm sorry that you've had to join this SBO club. I've had problems with them since 2002 and have had 2 bowel resection surgeries and one to clip adhesions over the years. I currently have multiple strictures and dilated loops in my bowels but have managed to stay out of the hospital since I put myself on a low residue diet in 2022. Basically, as others have said, it's no fiber and nothing that's hard to digest like red meat. Chicken is pretty much the only meat I can eat. If you Google low residue diet you will find lists of foods to eat and which to avoid from prestigious medical systems like Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. And as another said, when you feel like an obstruction may be coming on (when your gut motility slows down) that's the time to switch to a clear liquid diet for a day or two, then move to full liquids and eventually a soft food diet if things are still moving.