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How do I eat after digestive tract surgery?

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Same experience here with dietician giving printouts which I could have done myself.
The food they put on my plate also went against the instructions. What ??? I learned the hard way by getting 2 small bowel obstructions and sepsis. Very sick. I have found due to my anastomosis stricture I can only have liquids mostly but can try very mushy foods eg mashed potatoes and yes very, very small portions several times a day. Not 3 meals a day.A bite here,bite there and the foods must be under the easy to digest column. Therefore amount and kinds of food extremely important. The only thing I cant understand is I thought food was practically liquid by the time it go to large intestines so how is it backing up ? Anyone ?

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That is an interesting question. Perhaps it has something to do with the work our digestive tract has to do in order to convert the food into liquid. This is just a guess; I'm far from an expert on these matters.